World Livestock Auctioneer Championship
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The World Livestock Auctioneer Championship is an annual competition of livestock auctioneers who practice the auction chant
typical of rural areas in the United States
and Canada
. The competition is sponsored by the Livestock Marketing Association, and was first held in 1963.
The 1976 competition was featured in Werner Herzog
's film How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck.
Auction chant
Auction chant is a rhythmic repetition of numbers and "filler words" spoken by an auctioneer in the process of conducting an auction. The auction chant is a repetition of two numbers at a time which indicate the monetary amount involved with the sale of an item...
typical of rural areas in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
and Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
. The competition is sponsored by the Livestock Marketing Association, and was first held in 1963.
The 1976 competition was featured in Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog Stipetić , known as Werner Herzog, is a German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and opera director.He is often considered as one of the greatest figures of the New German Cinema, along with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Margarethe von Trotta, Volker Schlöndorff, Werner...
's film How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck.