The biggest spring sale ever held in Stratton looked more like a winter sale on Saturday.
With a winter storm blasting hard outside, 1,424 head of snowy-backed cattle were put over the scales and under the auctioneer’s hammer between 9:30 a.m. and 9 p.m.
But only a couple of trucks got loaded that night. With almost 30 cm of snow on the ground and most highways closed, they wouldn’t have been able to go anywhere even if they had been able to get turned around in the parking lot.
The majority of the cattle were loaded out Monday.