{"id":2435426,"date":"2019-01-27T09:11:31","date_gmt":"2019-01-27T16:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=295657"},"modified":"2019-01-27T09:11:31","modified_gmt":"2019-01-27T16:11:31","slug":"champion-steer-fetches-auction-record-150000-at-denver-stock-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/champion-steer-fetches-auction-record-150000-at-denver-stock-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Champion steer fetches auction record $150,000 at Denver stock show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DENVER (AP) \u2014 Officials say a prize-winning steer has been auctioned for a record-setting amount at the National Western Stock Show in Denver.<\/p>\n<p>Ames Construction Company made a winning bid of $150,000 for the Grand Champion Steer at Friday night\u2019s auction of junior competitors\u2019 livestock.<\/p>\n<p>Kutter Bland, a 17-year-old from Slaton, Texas, showed the 1,339-pound steer.<\/p>\n<p>The auction sales of eight champion animals totaled $480,000.<\/p>\n<p>Stock show officials say the auction proceeds support young exhibitors as they plan for college and future agricultural work.<\/p>\n<p>A portion of the proceeds also go toward the National Western Scholarship Trust. The trust provides scholarships in agricultural studies and rural medicine at colleges in Colorado and Wyoming.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/champion-steer-fetches-auction-record-150000-at-denver-stock-show\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DENVER (AP) \u2014 Officials say a prize-winning steer has been auctioned for a record-setting amount at the National Western Stock Show in Denver. Ames Construction Company made a winning bid of $150,000 for the Grand Champion Steer at Friday night\u2019s auction of junior competitors\u2019 livestock. Kutter Bland, a 17-year-old from Slaton, Texas, showed the 1,339-pound [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2435426","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 20:13:35","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2435426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2435426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2435426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2435426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}