4H - Longview 4H Beef Club

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By: Kayla Hughes

The Longview 4-H Beef's achievement day was a huge success. Even though we had to change venues on short notice everything still worked out. The day started off at 10:30 with our judging competition, where there were Longview teams versus the Gladys teams, following with written judging at 11:00. Then the show kicked off at 1:00 with the heifer and cow/calf part of the show and the Longview champion heifers were: 2nd place - Josie Hughes and 1st place - Kayla Hughes. The Longview champion cow/calf results were: 2nd place - Hanna Dayment and 1st place - Reid Snodgrass. Reid Snodgrass and Kayla Hughes went on to win Reserve and Grand Champion Females of the show. Good job! Then on to the steer part of the show, the results for the winners of Longview showmanship were: 2nd place - Railey Tremblay and 1st place - Jessica Shewchuk. Jessica Shewchuk went on to win Grand Champion Showmanship. Good job! As for the winners of the Longview steers the results were: 2nd place - Jessica Shewchuk and 1st place - Keaton Cox. Keaton Cox went on to win Reserve Champion steer of the show. Good job!

Moving on to the sale, the charity steer sold for an all time high raising $21,739.65. The charity steer also was sold 3 times. The first group, the Longview Group, paid $11,000 then donated the money and had the steer sold again. Then the second group, S.A.L.E (Southern Alberta Livestock Exchange) Group, paid $8,900 then donated the money and had the steer sold once again. Then for the final time the donation steer, Freddie, was sold to John Lockhart. All $21,739.65 went to the High River District Healthcare Foundation and was much appreciated!

All in all the day was good to show all the hard work the members had put into their animals and was lots of fun!