Posted: 07.28.2011

One hundred youth competed at the contest State 4-H Dairy Judging Contest in Marshfield in conjunction with the State Ayrshire and Guernsey show. Ayrshire and Guernsey animals were pulled out of the show strings and Holstein, Brown Swiss and Jersey cattle were trucked in from nearby farms to make classes for the contest.

In the Senior contest, Fond Du Lac County took top honors and will go on to represent Wisconsin in the National 4-H Dairy Judging Contest at World Dairy Expo. They also received the new Dr. Dave Dickson Memorial Trophy. This traveling trophy will be awarded annually to the top Senior team at the Wisconsin 4-H State Dairy Cattle Judging contest with each year’s winning team having their county engraved on the trophy. Dane County took second and Dodge County took third and earned the right to compete for Wisconsin at the All American in Harrisburg, PA. Austen Schmidt from Fond Du Lac won the Senior division and Sara Harn was the top individual for Oral Reasons. Representing Wisconsin at the NAILE in Lousiville, KY will be a team consisting of Sara Harn from Dane County, Ben Powers from Dunn County, John Klossner from Green County and Lizi Endres from Dane County.

In the Junior competition Dodge County won first team overall and was first in the Type Analysis Questions category. The Pierce County juniors placed second overall. In the Junior individual contest, brother and sister Dawson and Kylie Nickels took first and second respectively.

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