Source: Emilie Munson, Kyle Ogilvie, TIMES UNION, 4/18/21

 In May, Phil Trowbridge, a farmer in Ghent, watched his first-ever virtual cattle auction with fear in the pit of his stomach. “I was scared to death,” Trowbridge said. “All I was thinking was that I have to tell my wife we’ve got to sell the farm. How do you tell your kids that we were done?” Trowbridge makes the majority of his family’s income from two cattle auctions a year. With COVID-19 prohibiting his usual in-person sales, he moved his event online and had to sell more bulls to make his usual revenue.

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