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Live Auction Again Will Be Part Of Opening Night At KLA Convention

A live benefit auction November 20 during the KLA Convention & Expo in Manhattan will feature bull sale credits, livestock equipment, original artwork and more. Proceeds from items sold will support the KLA Political Action Council (PAC), Ranchland Trust of Kansas (RTK), Kansas Livestock Foundation (KLF) and Kansas CattleWomen (KCW). For those unable to attend, the auction will be broadcast on LiveAuctions.tv.

Producers donating bull sale credits for their 2025 sales to benefit KLA PAC 500 include Gardiner Angus Ranch, Fink Beef Genetics, Bar S Ranch, Barrett Cattle, Benoit Angus, Dalebanks Angus, Downey Ranch, Harms Plainview Ranch, Judd Ranch, Kniebel Cattle Company, Lyons Ranch, Mill Brae Ranch, Mushrush Ranches, Sandhill Farms, Jones Stewart Angus Ranch/Mid Continent Farms and Sunflower Genetics. Moser Ranch has donated a six-shooter Cimarron Pistolero 45 Long Colt revolver engraved with the KLA PAC logo. Tyson Fresh Meats and the Tyson cattle procurement team provided one box of Prime strip loins. Additionally, Kansas Regenerative Medicine Center of Manhattan donated a stem cell procedure to be auctioned off.

There will be five items featured in the auction to benefit RTK. A drone photo and video package was donated by Phillip Solorio, Sundgren Realty and Auction. Photographer Bruce Hogle provided a 20” x 30” framed canvas of an image taken during a controlled burn in the Flint Hills. A scotch tasting for four with Jim Richardson at the Territory Ballroom in Council Grove, owned by Shawn and Nicky Tiffany, was donated by Richardson, the Tiffanys, and Scott and Pattie Strickland. A dinner for four with Kansas Agriculture Secretary Mike Beam, donated by Secretary Beam, also will be sold. A $300 gift certificate provided by Zeitlow Distributing Company will be up for auction, as well.

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