Rhett Parks placed first in the recent Manitoba-Saskatchewan Livestock Auctioneer Championship.
Parks operates Whitewood Livestock Sales in Whitewood, Sask., and is president of Livestock Marketers of Saskatchewan.
Each contestant in the competition sold 11 drafts of cattle, plus a donated item. The winners were named after the top eight auctioneers were invited back to sell an additional 12 drafts of cattle.
Rhett now advances to the Canadian championships of the Livestock Markets Association of Canada in Kitchener-Waterloo June 8-10.
The competition attracted nine competitors from Saskatchewan and six from Manitoba.
Brock Taylor of Taylor Auctions in Melita, Man., was runner up and Farron Ward of Candiac Auction Mart in Glenavon, Sask., finished third.
