{"id":43651,"date":"2018-01-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalbison.org\/national-bison-association-2018-jr-judging-contest-winners-announced\/"},"modified":"2025-02-27T07:33:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T14:33:15","slug":"national-bison-association-2018-jr-judging-contest-winners-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalbison.org\/national-bison-association-2018-jr-judging-contest-winners-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"National Bison Association 2018 Jr. Judging Contest Winners Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>National Bison Association 2018 Jr. Judging Contest Winners Announced<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Winners Hail from Colorado, Kansas, Texas, South Dakota<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DENVER\u2014Young people ages 8 to 21 competed Jan.17, for $3,600 in individual scholarships, plaques and bragging rights at the National Bison Association\u2019s (NBA) Tenth Annual Junior Judging Contest.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Taking top honors and a $1,500 scholarship provided by the National Buffalo Foundation was Cassidy Wallace, Canyon, Tex., a student at West Texas A &amp; M and a member of the college\u2019s herdsman program. Her score was 226 points. &nbsp;Wallace also was a member of the second-place team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Placing second in individual standings with 223 points was Aubry Hensley, a member of Blanchard FFA in Blanchard, Okla. She receives a $1,200 scholarship, sponsored by Rocky Mountain Buffalo Association. Placing third with 220 points and a $900 scholarship from Rocky Mountain Natural Meats, was Stephanie Connelly, from Northeastern Jr. College, Sterling, Colo. Connelly also was a member of the first-place team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first place-team with a total score of 644 was from Northeastern Jr. College, and team members included Connelly as well as Kylie Poole and Tiffaney Connelly. The second-place team, scoring a total of 668.5 points was from West Texas A &amp; M and included Wallace as well as Madison Looney, Paul Salado and Laura Corder. In third place as a team was Brewster FFA, Brewster, Kan., with a total team score of 613. Team members included Austin Bear, Samantha Cozza, Colten Palmer and Ryan Hause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Top placers in the 13 and younger division were Taber Cammack, Stoneville, S.D., first; Gunner Klingler, Kamas, Utah, second; and Grace Klingler, also from Kamas, Utah, third.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u201cThe judging ability and quality of reasons continues to develop as this national contest grows,\u201d said Dave Carter, NBA executive director.&nbsp; \u201cThe growing interest also is a reflection of the increased attention by producers and potential producers in raising bison as a career.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The NBA\u2019s Junior Judging program is based on criteria used in 4-H and FFA livestock judging contests. &nbsp;The bison judging program was started by NBA member and Stratford, Okla., veterinarian Dr. Gerald Parsons.&nbsp; He is the administrator of the NBA\u2019s National Jr. Judging Contest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe level of interest and the quality of junior judges in this contest bodes well for the continued growth of the U.S. bison industry,\u201d Parsons said. &nbsp;\u201cWe are glad to see young people interested in this business and learning about bison.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The contest was held at the National Western Stock Show (NWSS), Denver, Colo., in conjunction with the 2018 NBA Gold Trophy Show &amp; Sale.&nbsp; Contestants judged four classes: yearling heifers, bull calves, two-year-old breeding bulls and heifer calves, and gave reasons on the two-year-old breeding bull class.&nbsp; Each animal class and the reasons class had a total possible point value of 50, making 250 total points a perfect score. Team scores are calculated using the top three individual scores.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The NBA offers a junior membership, which provides young people 21 and younger with the same benefits as its producer members, but for a discounted rate of $50 annually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Bison Association 2018 Jr. Judging Contest Winners Announced Winners Hail from Colorado, Kansas, Texas, South Dakota DENVER\u2014Young people ages 8 to 21 competed Jan.17, for $3,600 in individual scholarships, &#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - 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