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Emerald agent claims Queensland 2024 Young Auctioneers title

Beef Central 07/08/2024

2024 ALPA Queensland Young Auctioneers Competition winner Matthew Pearce, GDL Rural, Emerald, right, with runner-up Dustyn Fitzgerald, Queensland Rural, Charters Towers

 

YOUNG Emerald stock agent Matthew Pearce was crowned as the 2024 Australian Livestock and Property Brokers Queensland Young Auctioneers Competition winner during the opening stages of Brisbane’s Royal Queensland Show today.

Mr Pearce, branch manager for GDL Rural’s Emerald branch, earned the Queensland Country Life Shield, the Don Steele AM Cup, $500 cash, various prizes, and a place in the 2025 ALPA National Young Auctioneers finals to be held at Sydney Royal Easter Show next April.

This year’s runner up was Dustyn Fitzgerald from Queensland Rural, Charters Towers who will also represent Queensland in the 2025 ALPA National Young Auctioneers Competition.

This year’s Queensland final attracted 11 outstanding young auctioneers – the remaining nine finalists included:

  • Jack Dougherty, Elders Rural Services, Dalby
  • Sterling George, GDL Rural, Blackall
  • Charlie Gleeson, Watkins & Company, Roma
  • Jack Hannah, GDL Rural, Miles
  • Patrick Luck, Kennedy Livestock & Property, Clermont
  • Jesse McCutcheon, Ray White Rural – Roma
  • Sam Moy, Nutrien Ag Solutions, Rockhampton
  • Justin Rohde, Nutrien Ag Solutions, Emerald
  • Patrick Sullivan, Sullivan Livestock & Rural Services, Gympie.

ALPA chief executive Peter Baldwin said as a lifetime agent, he could not have been prouder of the 11 young competitors who took part earlier today.

“They were great ambassadors for our industry, and through their performance showed just why auctioneering is not only a laudable profession, but it is the panacea for gaining the truest measure of price,” he said.

Three well-credentialed livestock selling judges scored each competitor, evaluating their presentation, delivery, diction, voice, manner, knowledge of values as well as their unique command and style in keeping with ALPA’s well documented judging criteria.

The 11 finalists were selected from 36 attendees at ALPA’s Auctioneers School held earlier at the Central Queensland Livestock Exchange Gracemere.

“My colleagues and I could tell that Queensland has deep pools of phenomenal young talent in auctioneering and year in and year out, thanks to ALPA members this talent is enhanced,” Mr Baldwin said.

“At the auctioneer school we reinforced the principles of humility, personal pride and individuality, product knowledge, respect for industry peers and then we honed the skills of the attendees in the finer and even most basic aspects of precision livestock auctioneering.

“The combination of specialised inter firm training, on the job selling at saleyards and refinement at our ALPA schools is the perfect model for developing the careers of these young enthusiastic women and men and we can safely say that the future of our industry is looking very exciting,” Mr Baldwin said.

“In its 35th year, this enduring young auctioneers’ competition once again illuminated the talents of young professionals from rural Queensland through a memorable display of the purest form of livestock auctioneering,” he said.

Limited to young auctioneers 25 years and younger, the competition was judged on subject matter expertise, knowledge of breed and confirmation, ability to engender robust buyer competition, purvey a polished rural sophisticated delivery and above all, be recognised by the judges for sheer excellence.

Each auctioneer answered the call, showing individual personality, credibility, flair and tenacity in expatiating the virtues of their lots before a seasoned ring of commercial prime cattle buyers.

 

Source: ALPA

 

 

 

 

 

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