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At Big Meadow Auction Services Ltd., we provide professional auction services for farms, estates, businesses, municipalities, organizations, and individuals throughout Alberta.
Whether you're selling a complete operation, dispersing an estate, disposing of surplus equipment, or consigning a single item, our goal is the same: bring your assets to a competitive marketplace and make the selling process as straightforward as possible.
From the initial consultation through marketing, bidding, payment collection, pickup, and final settlement, our team can manage the entire auction process.
Farm & Acreage Auctions
Retiring, downsizing, restructuring, or simply ready to sell?
Big Meadow provides complete auction services for farms, ranches, acreages, and agricultural operations throughout Alberta.
We can market everything from a few major pieces of equipment to a complete dispersal, including tractors, combines, seeding and tillage equipment, haying equipment, livestock equipment, vehicles, trailers, shop equipment, tools, and other farm assets.
Our online auction platform allows your equipment to remain at your property while being exposed to bidders across Alberta and beyond.
Estate Auctions
Settling an estate can involve a lifetime of belongings and a long list of decisions.
We work with families, executors, and estate representatives to provide an organized and respectful process for bringing estate assets to market.
Depending on the estate, auctions may include vehicles, recreational equipment, machinery, tools, antiques, collectibles, household contents, and other personal property.
Our team can coordinate cataloguing, photography, marketing, bidding, payment collection, and buyer pickup, helping reduce the workload placed on those responsible for the estate.
Industrial & Commercial Auctions
When businesses have equipment to sell, reaching the right buyers matters.
Big Meadow provides auction services for businesses that are restructuring, upgrading equipment, reducing inventory, closing operations, or disposing of surplus assets.
Auctions can include heavy equipment, commercial vehicles, trailers, shop equipment, tools, attachments, inventory, and specialized industrial assets.
From individual pieces of surplus equipment to complete business liquidations, we develop an auction and marketing strategy around the assets being sold.
Municipal & Tax Recovery Auctions
Municipal asset disposal requires a process that is transparent, competitive, well documented, and accountable to the public.
Big Meadow works with municipalities to provide professional auction services for surplus vehicles, public works equipment, machinery, tools, facility assets, and other municipal property.
Our team also provides professional auctioneering and marketing services for municipal tax recovery property auctions, working alongside municipal Administration within the applicable legislative requirements and conditions established by the municipality.
Our combination of auction expertise and practical municipal experience gives us an understanding of the accountability, documentation, procurement, disposal, and administrative requirements involved when dealing with public assets.
Consignment Auctions
You don't need enough equipment for your own auction to take advantage of the auction method.
Our consignment auctions allow farmers, businesses, municipalities, and individual sellers to market individual pieces or groups of assets alongside consignments from other sellers.
By combining assets into a larger auction, consignors benefit from the marketing reach, established bidder audience, and competitive environment generated by the overall sale.
Depending on the auction, consignments may be delivered to a central location or sold directly from the consignor's property.
Fundraising Auctions
A successful fundraising auction isn't simply about calling bids — it's about creating energy in the room and connecting bidders with the cause they're supporting.
Big Meadow provides professional auctioneering for charities, non-profit organizations, agricultural groups, sports organizations, community groups, service clubs, and benefit events.
Our auctioneers bring energy, personality, and professional bid calling to the event while helping keep the program moving and encouraging friendly competition between supporters.
Whether it's a few feature items or a complete live auction program, we'll work with your organization to help make the auction one of the highlights of the event.
Live, Online & Onsite Auctions
No two auctions are exactly alike.
Depending on the assets, seller, location, and intended audience, Big Meadow can provide different auction formats and develop an approach suited to the sale.
Timed Online Auctions: Bidding takes place online over a predetermined period, allowing buyers to participate when and where it's convenient for them. Timed auctions provide sellers with broad market exposure while allowing assets to remain at their existing location when appropriate.
Live Auctions: There's still nothing quite like a live auction. For sales and events where a traditional auction makes sense, our professional auctioneers and ring personnel provide the pace, energy, and competitive atmosphere that have made auctions successful for generations.
Live Webcast Auctions: Live webcast auctions combine traditional auctioneering with online bidding, allowing bidders in the crowd and online to compete simultaneously. This format provides the atmosphere of a live auction while extending participation beyond those able to attend in person.
More Than Just Selling
A successful auction starts well before the first bid and doesn't end when the last lot closes.
Depending on the auction, our services can include:
We work with you from the initial conversation through completion of the sale, providing one point of contact throughout the auction process.
Not Sure Which Auction Option Is Right for You? That's where we come in.
Tell us what you're considering selling, where it's located, and what you're hoping to accomplish. We'll review your situation and help determine whether an auction makes sense and which approach is best suited to your assets.
Whether it's one piece, a complete dispersal, or anything in between, we're ready to talk.
Contact Big Meadow Auction Services for a no-obligation auction consultation.
Big Meadow Auction Services Ltd.
Professional Auctioneers.
Alberta Owned & Operated.
Whether you're selling a complete operation, dispersing an estate, disposing of surplus equipment, or consigning a single item, our goal is the same: bring your assets to a competitive marketplace and make the selling process as straightforward as possible.
From the initial consultation through marketing, bidding, payment collection, pickup, and final settlement, our team can manage the entire auction process.
Farm & Acreage Auctions
Retiring, downsizing, restructuring, or simply ready to sell?
Big Meadow provides complete auction services for farms, ranches, acreages, and agricultural operations throughout Alberta.
We can market everything from a few major pieces of equipment to a complete dispersal, including tractors, combines, seeding and tillage equipment, haying equipment, livestock equipment, vehicles, trailers, shop equipment, tools, and other farm assets.
Our online auction platform allows your equipment to remain at your property while being exposed to bidders across Alberta and beyond.
Estate Auctions
Settling an estate can involve a lifetime of belongings and a long list of decisions.
We work with families, executors, and estate representatives to provide an organized and respectful process for bringing estate assets to market.
Depending on the estate, auctions may include vehicles, recreational equipment, machinery, tools, antiques, collectibles, household contents, and other personal property.
Our team can coordinate cataloguing, photography, marketing, bidding, payment collection, and buyer pickup, helping reduce the workload placed on those responsible for the estate.
Industrial & Commercial Auctions
When businesses have equipment to sell, reaching the right buyers matters.
Big Meadow provides auction services for businesses that are restructuring, upgrading equipment, reducing inventory, closing operations, or disposing of surplus assets.
Auctions can include heavy equipment, commercial vehicles, trailers, shop equipment, tools, attachments, inventory, and specialized industrial assets.
From individual pieces of surplus equipment to complete business liquidations, we develop an auction and marketing strategy around the assets being sold.
Municipal & Tax Recovery Auctions
Municipal asset disposal requires a process that is transparent, competitive, well documented, and accountable to the public.
Big Meadow works with municipalities to provide professional auction services for surplus vehicles, public works equipment, machinery, tools, facility assets, and other municipal property.
Our team also provides professional auctioneering and marketing services for municipal tax recovery property auctions, working alongside municipal Administration within the applicable legislative requirements and conditions established by the municipality.
Our combination of auction expertise and practical municipal experience gives us an understanding of the accountability, documentation, procurement, disposal, and administrative requirements involved when dealing with public assets.
Consignment Auctions
You don't need enough equipment for your own auction to take advantage of the auction method.
Our consignment auctions allow farmers, businesses, municipalities, and individual sellers to market individual pieces or groups of assets alongside consignments from other sellers.
By combining assets into a larger auction, consignors benefit from the marketing reach, established bidder audience, and competitive environment generated by the overall sale.
Depending on the auction, consignments may be delivered to a central location or sold directly from the consignor's property.
Fundraising Auctions
A successful fundraising auction isn't simply about calling bids — it's about creating energy in the room and connecting bidders with the cause they're supporting.
Big Meadow provides professional auctioneering for charities, non-profit organizations, agricultural groups, sports organizations, community groups, service clubs, and benefit events.
Our auctioneers bring energy, personality, and professional bid calling to the event while helping keep the program moving and encouraging friendly competition between supporters.
Whether it's a few feature items or a complete live auction program, we'll work with your organization to help make the auction one of the highlights of the event.
Live, Online & Onsite Auctions
No two auctions are exactly alike.
Depending on the assets, seller, location, and intended audience, Big Meadow can provide different auction formats and develop an approach suited to the sale.
Timed Online Auctions: Bidding takes place online over a predetermined period, allowing buyers to participate when and where it's convenient for them. Timed auctions provide sellers with broad market exposure while allowing assets to remain at their existing location when appropriate.
Live Auctions: There's still nothing quite like a live auction. For sales and events where a traditional auction makes sense, our professional auctioneers and ring personnel provide the pace, energy, and competitive atmosphere that have made auctions successful for generations.
Live Webcast Auctions: Live webcast auctions combine traditional auctioneering with online bidding, allowing bidders in the crowd and online to compete simultaneously. This format provides the atmosphere of a live auction while extending participation beyond those able to attend in person.
More Than Just Selling
A successful auction starts well before the first bid and doesn't end when the last lot closes.
Depending on the auction, our services can include:
- Initial consultation and site assessment
- Auction planning and scheduling
- Asset cataloguing
- Professional photography
- Lot descriptions
- Marketing and advertising
- Social media promotion
- Online auction setup and hosting
- Bidder registration and support
- Professional auctioneering
- Ring personnel
- Invoicing and payment collection
- Pickup and removal coordination
- Seller settlement and reporting
We work with you from the initial conversation through completion of the sale, providing one point of contact throughout the auction process.
Not Sure Which Auction Option Is Right for You? That's where we come in.
Tell us what you're considering selling, where it's located, and what you're hoping to accomplish. We'll review your situation and help determine whether an auction makes sense and which approach is best suited to your assets.
Whether it's one piece, a complete dispersal, or anything in between, we're ready to talk.
Contact Big Meadow Auction Services for a no-obligation auction consultation.
Big Meadow Auction Services Ltd.
Professional Auctioneers.
Alberta Owned & Operated.
