Lee Maddox: Finally a World Champion from Tennessee: Hello and Welcome everyone for Tennessee Home and Farm Radio. I'm Lee Maddox.
Jacob Massey: Fortune enough this year, all the stars kind of lined up. I say luck was on my side and pulled out the win this year
Lee Maddox: Jacob Massey from Petersburg, Tennessee was named champion at the 2023 World Livestock Auctioneer Championship. This was the 59th World Championship held this year at Arcadia Stockyard in Arcadia, Florida, and presented by the Livestock Marketing Association.
Jacob Massey: It was so overwhelming to hear it come over the speakers. Something we always dream of since I've been competing was hearing your name for the championship. And when it did, like I said I was blown away by
Lee Maddox: This was a dream come true for the 34 year old Jacob Massey who competed in his first World Championship contest back in 2010. And while today he helps farmers market their livestock through three weekly markets in Fayetteville and Columbia with United Producers Incorporated, and at the Mid South Regional Livestock Center in Unionville. His passion for auctioneering started much earlier
Jacob Massey: But I'm gonna say six, seven, eight years old, you know, I was probably starting to auctioneer a little bit. And I know when I was nine or 10, we'd have a farm sale somewhere on Saturday. And we'd get to get late in the day and around no wouldn't be a whole lot of people left late in the day and dad would put me up there and I would sale oh you know some hand tools out of the shed or something when I was pretty young
Lee Maddox: Jacob Massey is the only Tennesseean and to ever win the World Livestock Auctioneer Championship and he says he's extremely blessed to have cattle of his own and work in the industry and help other producers get top dollar for their product.
Jacob Massey: And a lot of those producers they may sale calves, one time a year and that's their check for the year and I think that very seriously, when I'm up there working for them, they might as well be my cattle when they come to the ring. Im going to work just as hard for them as I work for myself
Lee Maddox: World Livestock Auctioneer Champion Jacob Massey for Tennessee Home and Farm Radio. I'm Lee Maddox.
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