E4—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 16,1980
TEMPLETON, Cal -
When you’ve wanted to be
something all your life, it’s
still “unbeheveable” that
you’re finally the best, ac
cording to Dean W Schow,
Paxton, Nebraska, who
walked away from here
recently with the 1980 World
Livestock Auctioneer
Champion title
“Auctioneering was
something that fascinated
me from the time I was a
little kid When my dad went
to the sale I always wanted
to go,” he revealed
Schow was one of 65
contestants viemg for the
title at the Templeton
Livestock Market on June
21. Each contestant had a
chance to merchandise
livestock and were judged by
a panel of livestock market
owners based on criteria
they would use in employing
an auctioneer for their own
marketing business
The 35-year-old Schow
grew up in Paxton, where he
has lived since he was five
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World Livestock Auctioneer Champ
got started practicing on a tractor
He sells for Ogallala,
Nebraska Livestock Market
and has a farm of his own in
Paxton where he farms
wheat, corn and also raises
cattle and hogs
As Schow said, “We’ve got
a little of everything, but not
too much of anything very
big”
When most children play
games like fireman, Schow
remembers practicing to be
an auctioneer
“My father bought an old
two-cylmder tractor when I
was nme years old They’d
putt-putt-putt and I’d try to
sell to the rhythm of that,”
he said
Schow’s first try at the
World Championship came
in 1973, in Norfolk,
Nebraska He didn’t place in
that competition, but in 1978
he was the Central Region
runner-up And last year m
Brush, Colorado, he won the
number two title, the reserve
world champion.
After attending an lowa
auctioneering school, Schow
started working the ring for
the Ogallala market m 1967
and slowly worked up to
auctioneering regularly He
and his wife, who he says is
“the best partner I’ve got”,
run both the farm and las
auctioneering business.
“It’s not my business; it’s
our business She thinks as
much of the auction business
as Ido,” he said
Schow said he sometimes
gets a bit 'weary” when the
days get long and sales and
farming run back-to-back
' But if you really love what
you’re doing it’s not really
work I’ve got to admit, I just
love the auction.
“I hate to think when my
father died three years ago I
almost gave it up ” He
decided to continue both
farming and auctioneering
thanks to ,encouragement
from friends
“I just love to get off the
tractor and head to the sale
because I like the people and
I like to be around them. If
you don’t get up and go to the
Wednesday sale, the week
just isn’t right ”
You can’t imitate any
other auctioneer, according
to Schow “It just has to
come to you find your own
chant and use it,” he said
He admits that he
probably picked up “bits and
pieces” from auctioneers
he’s worked with ‘ When an
auctioneer said something
that was helpful in mer
chandising something, I
tried to remember it,” he
said
On a winning trip for two
to Spam as World Champion
Auctioneer, he said, “We
can’t believe it
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thought that being World
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