On January 10-11, the Western National Roundup in Denver, along with the National Western Stock Show, also in Denver, hosted this year’s Western National Roundup 4-H/FFA Livestock Judging Contest.
Host to one of many national-level livestock judging events, the Western National Roundup provides a place for youth to compete nationally while encouraging teamwork and self-confidence, and while focusing on the 4-H mission mandates: STEM, healthy living and citizenship.
This year, Florida 4-H was represented by your reserve state champion team from the state contest in the spring of 2019, Orange County 4-H, with team members Bailey Lavender, Bradley Nelson, Kylie Ward and Connor Ward.
As a team, they placed second in goats, eighth in beef, tied for tenth in swine and were the fifteenth place team overall.
Individually, Lavender placed as the overall high individual in goats, reserve high individual in reasons, sixth in beef, thirteenth in swine and as the third high individual overall. They are coached by Suzanne Archer.
A total of 28 teams and 111 individuals competed in this year’s contest. Congratulations to Orange County on their third straight year of national qualifiers for livestock judging, and best of luck to each of these youth in the future in livestock judging and beyond.
Livestock judging is an event designed to test the evaluation and decision making skills of youth through evaluating market and breeding beef cattle, swine, sheep and meat goats as well as the defense of their placings via oral reasons.
For more information and complete results, visit www.westernnationalroundup.org/contests-livestock.
(Photo from Western National Roundup on Flickr)
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