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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