They started the week with 31 semifinalists from across the US and Canada. Saturday night- the best of the 2023 best was selected- the Livestock Marketing Association announced the 2023 World Livestock Auctioneer Champion is Jacob Massey of Petersburg, Tennessee. For more than a decade, Massey has participated in the contest. In 2022- he was the Runnerup Reserve Champion(3rd Place) in the contest that saw Will Epperly of Iowa named the World Champ. Saturday night- Epperly declared that Massey was one that would succeed him over the next twelve months.
Massey receives $6,000 in Cash, the use of a GMC pickup for the coming year and more. The Reserve World Champion hails from Canada- Dean Edge of Rimbey, Alberta. The third place finisher-the Runner Up Champion is Sixto Paiz of Portales, New Mexico.
Rookie of the Year was Troy Robinett from Decatur, Texas- while the High Interview Score Award was presented to Lynn Langvardt of Chapman, Kansas.
Two of these award winners have ties back to the Oklahoma. Third Place Finisher Pais sells weekly for the Western Oklahoma Livestock Market in Clinton and also at the Woodward Livestock Market.
Robinett travels each week to Durant, Oklahoma and sells for the Durant Livestock Market.
Massey tells Hays after he was named the World Champion “I knew from an early age that I wanted to be a livestock auctioneer. I got my first job right out of high school and I’m still there selling every week- and I sell at three markets weekly now.”
Massey, in his truck that proclaims him the 2023 World Champion, will travel across the country and he says that he looks forward to seeing the wide variety of livestock markets that make up the cattle industry landscape. And, he tells Hays that he looks forward to having a big part in the 2024 Auctioneer Contest at the Oklahoma National Stockyards in Oklahoma City.
