Western Illinois University's Livestock Judging Team earned national recognition this season, placing in the top five at the Cattlemen's Congress in Oklahoma City, OK and being named the 2026 National ...

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At one of our editorial meetings recently, another editor asked us to share something happy from the recent weeks. It took me a second, but then it came to me. Livestock judging. In the past couple ...

Studying every class, watching every move and creating a carefully crafted reason is how the Mizzou Livestock Judging Team is making its mark. “I’m very excited to kind of create some tradition ...

A year of hard work paid off when the Fort Gibson FFA livestock judging team won the evaluation championship at the National FFA Convention. “Seeing everything come to fruition was a pretty good deal, ...

MABEL, Minn. — Eric Smith sat on a folding chair between a corn crib and a livestock trailer listening to high school students say things like "the small heifer" and "I place them 2,1,3,4." Smith, who ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—After attending a local animal show, 5-year-old Alexandra Pittman asked her mother and stepfather to buy her a piglet. Twenty years and numerous 4-H-related events later, she is now ...

The Oklahoma State University livestock judging team won high team overall at the 2022 North American International Livestock Exposition on Nov. 14. This fall marks the 22nd year OSU has brought home ...

FARGO, N.D. — Jacob Klaudt originally planned to play collegiate football, but the COVID-19 pandemic changed that. A competitive and driven person by nature, he knew he wanted to still compete in ...

RHAME, N.D.—Dillon Bowman, a senior at Bowman County High School in North Dakota, never envisioned himself going to college. “I didn’t really want to go to college. I just wanted to stay at home and ...

The Logan County 4-H Livestock Judging Team represented the state of Colorado at the National Western Stock Show National Livestock Judging Contest Jan. 6. The team had been preparing and practicing ...

In my long career as an aggie journalist and columnist, it’s been my privilege to be ringside at hundreds of livestock shows at county fairs, state fairs, regional and state-wide junior livestock ...