Archive for February, 2006
February 28, 2006 – 11:29 pm
On my recent visit to Kansas , I stopped in and visited with Randy Ruhter as he was doing a farm sale. Randy promptly introduced me to the owner, and told him how his advertsing program had attracted a bidder from Canada to go with the Mexican bidder that he had met earlier ! This [...]
February 28, 2006 – 11:28 pm
While travelling through the Badlands last month, I stopped at the museum at Ellsworth AFB just outside Rapid City SD. They have a very nice display, and you can get up close with the planes on display. The B-1 bomber looked very much like our 300M, even down to the same color. The car would [...]
February 28, 2006 – 11:27 pm
Last month when I was in Kansas for the Kansas Auctioneers Association annual convention in Salina, I stopped to visit the Aaron’s of Purple Wave Auctions in Manhattan Kansas. They run a very nice show, with an innovative online bidding system. They catolog their entire auction and place on the website for pre-bidding. They remove [...]
February 26, 2006 – 11:02 pm
I have been meaning to post a link to this TV interview I did last summer. It must have been a very slow newsday for them to drive out and do this interview on a hot summer day when I was busy doing some farming jobs. We had some great feedback on it, and the [...]
February 26, 2006 – 10:54 pm
I have been friends with Dave Mowitz , the Machinery Editor with Successful Farming magazine for several years. We had been bouncing ideas around for sometime about how we could work together as the auction topic is very popular with the 442,000 readers of every issue of the 104 year old magazine. This is publication [...]
February 26, 2006 – 10:51 pm
We had a show booth at the National Farm Machinery Show in Louisville Kentucky earlier in the month. With over 300,000 farmers through the doors over 4 days, it was great talking to many of you at the show. I also want to drop some names of some others we had the privilege of spending [...]
February 26, 2006 – 10:08 pm
Just came across this blog that appears to be run by an auctioneer. Have a look at AuctionMethod.Org
