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By TED SLOAN, Kentucky Agricultural News
Kentucky’s top youth livestock exhibitors were honored for their efforts in the 2006 show season at the Kentucky Proud Points awards luncheon Dec. 2 in Frankfort.
Top overall exhibitors honored at the Kentucky Proud Points Luncheon Dec. 2 in Frankfort, were, from second from left: Claudia Meeks, Sadieville, goat; Wes Korthaus, Smithfield, beef, and Ben Sparrow, Owenton, dairy. Jim Murray, left, represented Purina, which co-sponsors the Kentucky Proud Points program with the Kentucky Department of Agriculture and presented show boxes to the top overall exhibitors. At right is Steve Mobley, director of the KDA's Division of Show and Fair Promotion. Not pictured are Amber Combs, Paris, the top sheep exhibitor, and Courtney Tarvin, Mt. Olivet, the top swine exhibitor. (Ted Sloan photo) |
Winners recognized at the luncheon included:
BEEF
Overall – Wes Korthaus
Showmanship – Caleb Sadler
Steers – McKenzie Penick
Female – Kelsey Culp
Bull – Kelsey Culp
Breeder – Shannon & Shelley Wade
Breed champions
Percentage AOB – Shea Mackey
Angus – Brendan Sadler
Charolais – Kip Wallace
Chiangus – Kelsey Culp
Commercial – Elizabeth Berryman
Gelbvieh – Shelley Wade
Hereford – Adam Gordon
Limousin – Leslie Reynolds
Maine-Angou – Jacob Rankin
Red Poll – Jesse Mattingly
Salers – Leslie Reynolds
Santa Gertrudis – Zack Meredith
Shorthorn – Wes Korthaus
Simmental – Mike Mier
SHEEP
Overall – Amber Combs
Showmanship – Jacob Thompson
Market lamb – Josh Thompson
Ram – Alex Leer
Breeding Ewe – Kirsten Nichols, Tabitha Devine
Commercial Ewe – Josh Thompson
Breeder – Forrest & Scott Donagan
SWINE
Overall – Courtney Tarvin
Showmanship – Austin Penick
Market hog – Austin Penick
Gilt – Ashley Ballman
Breeder – Nicholas Hardesty, Red Barn Genetics
GOAT
Overall – Claudia Meeks
Market goat – Nick Stucker
Showmanship – Kari Buntin
Buck – Allison Fister
Breeding doe – Allison Fister
Commercial doe – Ashley Ballman
Breeder – Charles Allen, Bluegrass Boer Goats
DAIRY
Overall – Ben Sparrow
Female – Kirby Sparrow
Showmanship – Heath Minear
Breeder – Paul & Rebecca Oliver
Breed champions
Ayrshire – Joey Branstetter
Brown Swiss – Kirby Sparrow
Guernsey – Heath Minear
Holstein – Brad Taylor
Jersey – Seth Hodges
The Kentucky Proud Points Program is sponsored by Purina, the KDA’s Division of Value-Added Animal and Aquaculture Production, and the Division of Show and Fair Promotion.
To see pictures from the luncheon, click here.
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