The Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo (FWSSR) saw yet another record-breaking year in horse and cattle sales, signaling a potentially robust economy in the livestock sector.
Thirteen Stock Show auction sales generated more than $12.6 million with a record-breaking $8.2 million in the Junior Sale of Champions.
Headlined by a bid of $340,000 from Higginbotham Insurance and Financial Services for Grand Champion Steer Leadfoot, a European cross shown by Elli Benzer of Dallam County 4-H, the junior sale saw the Grand Champion Barrow sell for $35,000, the Grand Champion Lamb for $100,000 and the Grand Champion Wether Goat for $35,000.
Totals for other sales are as follows:
• The Premier Texas Longhorn Sale, 70 lots, gross: $115,700.
• American Quarter Horse Association Best of The Remuda Sale, 37 lots, gross: $357,000.
• Select Breeders Quarter Horse Sale, 12 lots, gross: $251,500—an increase of more than $100,000.
• Invitational Ranch Horse Sale, 7 lots, gross: $200,000.
• National Braunvieh Sale, 50 lots, gross: $165,900.
• Best of the West Angus Bull Sale, 84 lots, gross: $353,136.
• Stars of Texas Angus Female Sale, 59 lots, gross: $415,301—an increase of nearly $2,000 per head.
• Mustang Adoption/Auction, gross: $75,600.
• Cowtown Cattle Drive Charolais Sale, gross: $131,125—an increase of nearly $15,000.
• Rabbit Auction, gross: $2,585.
• 54th Annual Powerhouse Hereford Sale, gross: $295,500—an increase of more than $78,000.
• Southwestern Exposition Invitational Commercial Heifer Sale, 429 lots, gross: $2,092,600—an increase of nearly $3,000 per head.
“The Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo has established itself as a robust marketplace for livestock and horses,” said FWSSR Senior Executive Vice President and General Manager Matt Carter. “We’re looking toward 2025 with a great deal of optimism as we begin the $40 million renovation of the sheep, swine and poultry, pigeon and rabbit barns.”
The 2025 FWSSR will take place Jan. 17-Feb. 8, 2025. Tickets for the event, and entries for both the livestock and horse show, will begin in September. Guests interested in premium seating, such as suites or boxes, can contact premiumseating@dickiesarena.com. — FWSSR
