Top Honors Awarded at Iowa State Fair Yorkshire Show

DES MOINES, IA (08/22/2014)(readMedia)-- Ploeger Show Pigs of Pierson won Grand Champion Boar honors at the Yorkshire Swine show judged August 15 at the 2014 Iowa State Fair.

Kristin Boyum of Wanamingo, Minn., received the Reserve Grand Champion Boar title.

Matt Rohrig of Orient exhibited the Grand Champion Gilt while Brice Conover of Baxter exhibited the Reserve Grand Champion Gilt.

DCB Ag Enterprises of Whittemore was awarded the Premier Exhibitor title. The Premier Exhibitor award is presented to the exhibitor earning the highest point total in individual breeding classes for competition.

Animals are divided according to farrowing date based on the other animals entered in the competition.

Additional results follow:

Gilts

1) Ellensohn Show Pigs, Le Mars

2) Ellensohn Show Pigs, Le Mars

3) DCB Ag Enterprises, Whittemore

4) DCB Ag Enterprises, Whittemore

Gilts

1) Keith Johnson, Rose Hill

2) Josh Freimuth Family, Lytton

3) Bombei and Sons Showpigs, Delta

4) Fenner/Loftin, Grinnell

5) Four Generations Berks, Ida Grove

6) Hauser Livestock, Grinnell

Gilts

1) Todd, Kim and Kaiya Schuler and Williams, Atlantic

2) Cale Niehaus, Sac City

3) Ronald Meister, Kingsley

4) Todd, Kim and Kaiya Schuler and Williams, Atlantic

5) Larry Kastler, Woolstock

6) Rowdy Campfield, Runnells

7) Hauser Livestock, Grinnell

Gilts

1) Brice Conover, Baxter

2) Wild Wild East, Sloan

3) Todd, Kim and Kaiya Schuler and Williams, Atlantic

4) Todd, Kim and Kaiya Schuler and Williams, Atlantic

5) RAR Genetics, Aplington

Gilts

1) Matt Rohrig, Orient

2) Engler Family, Nevada

3) Engler Family, Nevada

Boars

1) DCB Ag Enterprises, Whittemore

2) DCB Ag Enterprises, Whittemore

Boars

1) Keith Johnson, Rose Hill

2) Hauser Livestock, Grinnell

3) Four Generations Berks, Ida Grove

4) Four Generations Berks, Ida Grove

Boars

1) Kristin Boyum, Wanamingo, Minn.

2) Brice Conover, Baxter

3) RAR Genetics, Aplington

4) Hoopy Hallow Farms, Orient

5) Hoopy Hallow Farms, Orient

Boars

1) Lonnie and Warren Ploeger, Pierson

2) Wayne Huinker, Decorah

3) Brice Conover, Baxter

4) Mike and Cristen Clark, Runnells

Boars

1) Matt Rohrig, Orient

"Nothing Compares" to the Iowa State Fair. The 2014 Fair ended August 17. The 2015 Iowa State Fair is set August 13-23. For more information, call 800/545-FAIR or visit iowastatefair.org.

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