Live Auction Provides Convenience For Auction Buyers

For the past eight years, Idaho ranching native and Internet Market Representative Katie Colyer has traveled around the pacific northwest and the rest of the country putting sales on the internet for her company Live Auction — so cattle buyers can participate in sales that are too far away to attend. She averages about 80 sales a year.

Chances are pretty good that if you have attend a popular purebred production sale in the northwest region, Colyer has been broadcasting the sale on the internet. She says the interest has steadily grown.

Colyer: "It seems like it is getting more and more popular. Everybody is getting more comfortable with using it. Especially too where the internet service in more rural areas is is getting to where people can get on the internet with a better, stronger, faster connection — they are feeling more comfortable with getting on line. And two with travel costs keep increasing and people's time - -they've got a lot going on. It has picked up the last several years.Putting your sale on the internet just gains you a little more exposure and you are kind of reaching a broader audience."

Any sale that she broadcasts can be found on LiveAuction.tv. Colyer shares what she has been seeing at the recent bull sales

Colyer: "It seems like everybody has been real upbeat and optimistic. The way the prices have been going, they've felt good a out spending more money to get better bulls."