Welcome to the Riffel farm. We are a three-generation family farm in central Kansas. Cattle, meat goats, sheep, forages and grains are all raised here. In addition to our work on the farm, I'm also the communications director for a small private Christian College. I hope you'll stop by often and see what is happening.

2013 Sale Format


The sale will be hybrid.  We will be using a bid-board for the sale.  All the lot numbers will be listed and their base price given.  If buyers are interested in a particular lot they will indicate so on the board.  

Multiple bidders may be interested in the same lot.  

At 7:30 p.m. we will close the board. Those lots that have multiple bidders interested, and please note that we may have some buyers that have left purchasing instructions ahead of the sale who are unable to attend, will then be opened up for incremental bidding.  This portion will function just as a traditional auction.

We will work through the contested lots until all the goats are claimed.  If a buyer is interested in a lot - but is not the successful final bidder of the animal, a few minutes will be given between lots sold for buyers to express interest in an alternate lot.  Likewise, if they have expressed interest in multiple lots, but are the successful buyer of one or more lots, they will have the opportunity to remove their bidding number from any remaining lots on the board if they should choose to do so.

Those lots with a single interested buyer will have purchased the animal at the base price listed when the live sale is complete.

Please call with any questions about this selling process.

We feel this is the fairest, most transparent way to market the goats.  It will allow families to make good buying decisions and we will be able to quickly move through the goat offering. 

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