Stretched across high desert hills in far southeastern Jefferson County, the KG Ranch held its annual cattle sale last week and a sizable swathe of the ranching West turned up to take part.
As owner Paul Doddridge’s Black Angus Friday event put 250 two-year-old bulls and 130 bred heifers on the block, license plates from Texas, Nebraska, Iowa, Colorado and beyond filled the parking lot and reps from industry players like Agrimedia, the Western Livestock Journal, and the American Angus Association filed into the ranch’s hangar-like sales facility.
“There’s never been a better time to own a cow and a calf,” said auctioneer Joe Goggins, kicking off nearly four hours of high-decibel rat-a-tat narration, with his son Greg taking over the microphone two hours in. “We’ve got a great set of bulls to sell, so let’s bring on that first one.”
