IT was a tough competition, but in the end 24-year-old Jake Passfield, Hoch and Wilkinson, Clermont, won the Australian Livestock and Property Agents Association Young Auctioneers competition on Friday morning.
Ten young agents from across the state competed for the title, each auctioneering three lots of the prime stock sale as part of the competition.
Twenty-one-year-old Bryton Virgo, Landmark, Emerald, was runner-up and both young men will now compete in a national competition at the Sydney Royal Easter Show next year.
The prizes also included the ALPA Queensland Country Life
The competitors attended the ALPA Rockhampton Auctioneers School in June, developing their skills from experienced stock agents and specialist speech pathologists.
Last year’s winner, Joshua Heck from Savage Barker and Backhouse, Rockhampton, kicked off the morning, selling the first three lots.
ALPA has used the competition to raise funds for charity, and at a dinner on Thursday night raised over $17,000 for the Macquarie University Motor Neurone Disease Research Centre.
The judges this year were Darren Hartwig, Elders, Toowoomba, Trent McKinlay, Landmark, Rockhampton, and Lance Whitaker, Burnett Livestock Sales, Biggenden.
