NEW TOTAL SALES RECORD AT BURLESON CO. FAIR

  

Sale totals for the 2022 Burleson County Fair set new records.

Estimated numbers from the fair’s youth livestock auction, commercial heifer sale and baked foods sale amount to $2,278,800.  That surpasses the record of $2,269,850 from 2021’s final totals.

This year’s estimates include $1,215,200 in the youth livestock auction, which breaks 2021’s record of $1,141,500, as well as $77,100 in the baked foods sale, also breaking last year’s record of $48,450.

The commercial heifer sale brought in $986,500, down from $1,043,600 in last year’s sale.  The record is $1,153,000, set in 2015.

Big sellers in the youth livestock auction include Madalyn Faust’s grand champion market steer, which sold for $15,000 to J x J Ranch – Joe Janac.  The reserve champion market steer of Hadleigh Novosad sold for $9,000 to Burleson County Title Company, Bruce and Cindy Alford, Z4 Cattle Services, Burleson County Beef Council and Botts Title.