sale(s) barn

noun, a place where livestock is bought and sold

“I worked ten years at a sale barn when I was fifteen.”

“There was pretty good money in it, and I bought them at the sale barn.”

“Him and the neighbour up the road, they drowned going to the sales barn with a load of pigs or something. Across the ice.”

“So when I first met Tom, it was like, ‘Okay, my dad was talking to your dad at the sales barn’. We were both farmers.”

“So the township started running the trip on Wednesday night when the sale barn was open, so people could take calves and whatever they had to sell to the sale barn.”

“I worked for him too. But his father had a sale barn.”

“I figured on the sale barn I better quit too, because I was doing all the same work all the time. Tagging the cattle.”

“I think I was good there, you see because you got to keep the sale barn going.”

“I bought them at the sale barn. All pretty good. Like the penitentiary all had purebred cattle. And sometimes they’d send ten calves over there.”

“Yeah, so we had the beef cow one year, but we just couldn’t bring ourselves to kill it, so we brought it to the to the ‑ What do you call it?”
“Well, it went to the sales barn.”
“The sales barn.”