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It was a day for Napa Valley children and teenagers to show off the results of months of raising pigs, goats, cattle, and sheep â and to bask in applause and rapid-fire bidding in the sawdust-scented pavilion that has been the backdrop for years of animal auctions.
After the 2020 Junior Livestock Auction was forced online by COVID-19, bidders and youth agriculture groups returned to the Expo on Saturday to showcase pigs, goats, cows and sheep in person. Howard Yune, Register video
On Saturday, the bidding for choice farm animals raised by Napa County youth took place not among people in front of computer screens and keyboards, but among spectators holding up numbered cards before a rocket-lipped auctioneer. The Napa Valley Expo played host to its first in-person edition of the Junior Livestock Auction since the coronavirus pandemic forced a temporary switch to an online-only auction last year.