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Jon Schaben
Dunalp Livestock Auction
Jon has always joked that he was "born in a barn" being raised in the livestock marketing business in Dunlap, Iowa.
Jon graduated in 1987 from Iowa State University where he was President of the Block and Bridle Club and a member of the meats and meat animal evaluation teams. It was there that he met his wife, Julie, and they were blessed with 5 children Austin, Ryan, Alexandria, Walter and Bailey and 3 grandchildren!
Jon started in 1994 at the Dunlap Livestock Auction with his parents Jim and Ruth, and brothers Jay and Jim Jr. Jon is very proud of the fact that in the mid 90's they started a fed cattle auction that by the year 2000 was marketing over 75,000 fed cattle annually. Jon is very proud of the fact that he was the head sorter for all of the fed cattle auctions.
He was a graduate of the Missouri auction school where he served as an instructor for nearly 25 years. Jon was fortunate to have won the Triple Crown of Livestock Auctioneering contests winning the 2001 Greater Midwest contest in Winner, South Dakota, 2002 International Contest in Calgary, Canada and the 2003 World Livestock auctioneering championship in Lexington, Kentucky.
Jon has been very active in the Livestock Marketing Association serving as the Iowa president, a member of the auction contest committee at LMA and also serving on their government and industry affairs committee. In 2021 Jon had the pleasure of testifying in front of the U.S. senate judiciary committee on the lack of competitive bidding mechanisms in the fed cattle industry.
He has stated for some time the major problem in our industry is that we don't use the same standard to derive price in the fed cattle marketing as we do in the feeder cattle marketplace!