Yarrabee Farms Earns Top Honors at Ayrshire Dairy Cattle Show at Iowa State Fair
DES MOINES, IA (08/21/2018) (readMedia)-- Top dairy farms competed for honors in the Ayrshire Dairy Cattle show judged August 10 at the 2018 Iowa State Fair.
Yarrabee Farms of Brooklyn won the Grand Champion Female and Premier Breeder titles. Ridge View Farm of Lancaster, MO. took home Champion Premier Exhibitor and Reserve Champion Female.
Ridge View Farm of Lancaster, Mo received Champion Premier while BJs Ayrshires of Saint Olaf, Mn. took home Reserve Premier Exhibitor and Reserve Champion Female.
The Premier Breeder Award is given to the competitor who earns the most points for animals bred and exhibited by the entrant or others during the day's show. The Premier Exhibitor Award is given to the exhibitor who accumulates the most points based upon the day's placings.
Additional results below (name, hometown):
Spring Heifer Calf -- March 1 - May 31, 2018
1) Old-Bankston Ayrshires, Epworth
2) Ridge View Farm, Lancaster, Mo.
3) Shawn And Levi Banowetz, Charlotte
4) Breezy Ridge Dairy, Epworth
5) Canoe Ridge Dairy, Decorah
6) Irish Hill, Dewitt
7) Canoe Ridge Dairy, Decorah
8) Nors Holsteins/Melaar Ayrshires, Decorah
9) Nors Holsteins/melaar Ayrshires, Decorah
10) Sandy Hill Guernseys, Scotch Grove
Winter Heifer Calf -- Dec. 1, 2017 - Feb. 28, 2018
1) Old-Bankston Ayrshires, Epworth
2) Breezy Ridge Dairy, Epworth
3) Irish Hill, Dewitt
4) Breezy Ridge Dairy, Epworth
5) Steinridge Jerseys, Lawler
6) Holtz View Farms, Maquoketa
7) Ridge View Farm, Lancaster, Mo.
8) Canoe Ridge Dairy, Decorah
Fall Heifer Calf -- Sept. 1 - Nov. 30, 2017
1) Cost Farms, Long Grove
2) Onword Cattle Company, Oelwein
3) Old-Bankston Ayrshires, Epworth
4) Bryon Franks BJs Ayrshires, Saint Olaf
5) Ridge View Farm, Lancaster, Mo.
6) Bear-Ayr Farm, Blair, Neb.
7) Ridge View Farm, Lancaster, Mo.
8) Cost Farms, Long Grove
9) AJH Dairy, Clarksville
Summer Yearling Heifer -- June 1 - Aug. 31, 2017
1) Old-Bankston Ayrshires, Epworth
2) Gibbs Holsteins, Epworth
3) Ridge View Farm, Lancaster, Mo.
4) Courtney Schilling, Epworth
5) Canoe Ridge Dairy, Decorah
6) Nors Holsteins/Melaar Ayrshires, Decorah
7) Nors Holsteins/Melaar Ayrshires, Decorah
Spring Yearling Heifer -- March 1 - May 31, 2017
1) Old-Bankston Ayrshires, Epworth
2) Bryon Franks BJs Ayrshires, Saint Olaf
3) Caleb Kruse, Dewitt
4) Zach Eberling, Postville
5) Lucy Ann Acres, Sumner
Winter Yearling Heifer -- Dec. 1, 2016 - Feb. 28, 2017
1) Steinridge Jerseys, Lawler
2) Breezy Ridge Dairy, Epworth
3) Shawn And Levi Banowetz, Charlotte
4) Bear-Ayr Farm, Blair, Neb.
5) Ridge View Farm, Lancaster, Mo.
6) Bear-ayr Farm, Blair, Neb.
7) Ridge View Farm, Lancaster, Mo.
8) Sawyer Family, Marshalltown
9) Bryon Franks BJs Ayrshires, Saint Olaf
Fall Yrlg. Heifer (not in milk) -- Sept. 1 - Nov. 30, 2016
1) HB Holsteins, Marengo
2) AJH Dairy, Clarksville
3) Sawyer Family, Marshalltown
4) Overmann Registered Cattle, Earlville
5) Holtz View Farms, Maquoketa
6) HB Holsteins, Marengo
Fall Yearling in Milk -- After Sept. 1, 2016
1) Yarrabee Farms, Brooklyn
Junior Best Three Females
1) Ridge View Farm, Lancaster, Mo.
2) Nors Holsteins/Melaar Ayrshires, Decorah
Junior Two Year Old Cow -- March 1 - Aug. 31, 2016
1) Matt Bonert, Epworth
2) Onword Cattle Company, Oelwein
3) Ridge View Farm, Lancaster, Mo.
4) Nors Holsteins/Melaar Ayrshires, Decorah
Senior Two Year Old Cow -- Sept. 1, 2015 - Feb. 29, 2016
1) Yarrabee Farms, Brooklyn
2) Holtz View Farms, Maquoketa
3) Canoe Ridge Dairy, Decorah
4) Ridge View Farm, Lancaster, Mo.
Junior Three Year Old Cow -- March 1 - Aug. 31, 2015
1) Bryon Franks BJs Ayrshires, Saint Olaf
2) Yarrabee Farms, Brooklyn
3) Cost Farms, Long Grove
4) Cost Farms, Long Grove
5) Canoe Ridge Dairy, Decorah
6) Bryon Franks BJs Ayrshires, Saint Olaf
Senior Three Year Old Cow -- Sept. 1, 2014 - Feb. 28, 2015
1) Old-Bankston Ayrshires, Epworth
2) Yarrabee Farms, Brooklyn
Cow Four Years Old -- Sept. 1, 2013 - Aug. 31, 2014
1) Ridge View Farm, Lancaster, Mo.
2) Eric Lang, Brooklyn
3) Yarrabee Farms, Brooklyn
4) Yarrabee Farms, Brooklyn
5) Bryon Franks BJs Ayrshires, Saint Olaf
6) Yarrabee Farms, Brooklyn
Cow Five Years Old -- Sept. 1, 2012 - Aug. 31, 2013
1) HB Holsteins, Marengo
2) Nors Holsteins/Melaar Ayrshires, Decorah
Aged Cow -- Before Sept. 1, 2012
1) Holtz View Farms, Maquoketa
2) Yarrabee Farms, Brooklyn
Lifetime Production
1) Yarrabee Farms, Brooklyn
Best Three Head
1) Yarrabee Farms, Brooklyn
2) Ridge View Farm, Lancaster, Mo.
3) Bryon Franks BJs Ayrshires, Saint Olaf
4) Cost Farms, Long Grove
5) Holtz View Farms, Maquoketa
6) Nors Holsteins/Melaar Ayrshires, Decorah
Best Four Head
1) Yarrabee Farms, Brooklyn
2) Ridge View Farm, Lancaster, Mo.
3) Bryon Franks BJs Ayrshires, Saint Olaf
4) Holtz View Farms, Maquoketa
5) Nors Holsteins/Melaar Ayrshires, Decorah
6) Cost Farms, Long Grove
Junior Champion Female & Reserve
Champion) Old-Bankston Ayrshires, Epworth
Res. Grand) Breezy Ridge Dairy, Epworth
Intermediate Champion Female & Reserve
Champion) Yarrabee Farms, Brooklyn
Res. Grand) Matt Bonert, Epworth
Senior Champion Female & Reserve
Champion) Ridge View Farm, Lancaster, Mo.
Res. Grand) HB Holsteins, Marengo
Grand Champion Female & Reserve
Grand) Yarrabee Farms, Brooklyn
Res. Grand) Ridge View Farm, Lancaster, Mo.
Premier Exhibitor
Champion) Ridge View Farm, Lancaster, Mo.
Reserve) BJs Ayrshires, Saint Olaf
Premier Breeder
Champion) Yarrabee Farms, Brooklyn
Reserve) BJs Ayrshires, Saint Olaf
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