The Livestock Marketing Association announced Saturday night at the 2023 Convention in southwest Florida that the 2024 LMA Convention and World Livestock Auctioneer Championship will be where it was in 2010- the Oklahoma National Stockyards.
Oklahoma Farm Report’s Ron Hays covered the 2010 World Championship and was on hand for the 2023 LMA/WLAC events in Punta Gorda and Arcadia this past weekend- and talked with LMA Regional Rep for Oklahoma, Arkansas and southern Kansas, Joe Barbour. Barbour has been working with officials in Oklahoma City about the 2024 event and told Hays about the plans to date
Dates for the 2024 LMA Convention and 60th WLAC Contest- June 12-15, 2024
Semifinals, Finals and Awards Banquet- Saturday June 15, 2024
Convention Hotel- Omni, downtown OKC
Regional Qualifiers leading up to Oklahoma City Contest- Wyoming, Minnesota and Kentucky
Oklahoma National Stockyards Officials at the 2023 awards banquet promised a great event- with the plans to have 10,000 head of cattle on hand that Saturday to put the 31 contestants to the test that will deliver the 2024 Champion by the end of that day.
The 2023 World Champion, Jacob Massey of Tennessee, is expected to serve as the Master of Ceremonies for the Interview and Auction events.
To learn more about the contest- click here for the LMA webpages about the World Livestock Auctioneer Championshp. For a trip down memory lane- click here for the link to our Flickr page of the 2010 WLAC.
RFD-TV will have a hour long special about the 2023 WLAC on June 29, 2023.
