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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
THURSDAY, OCT. 18, 2007

Contact:

Bruce Shankle State Fair Livestock Superintendent (919) 839-4678

Livestock winners announced in State Fair competitions

RALEIGH – Winners have been announced in the meat sheep, junior meat goat and beef cattle competitions at the N.C. State Fair. Following are winners:

Meat Sheep-Montadale Ram

1. Grand and reserve grand champions shown by Kevin Kuykendall of Richland Center, Wis.

Meat Sheep-Montadale Ewe

1. Grand champion shown by Kevin Kuykendall of Richland Center, Wis.
2. Reserve grand champion shown by Keith Gordon of Plainville, Ind.

Meat Sheep-Columbia Ram

1. Grand and reserve grand champions shown by Van Cruit of Albion, Ill.

Meat Sheep-Columbia Ewe

1. Grand and reserve grand champions shown by Van Cruit of Albion, Ill.

Meat Sheep-Shropshire Ram

1. Grand champion shown by Beverly Simms of Albion, Ill.
2. Reserve grand champion shown by Frank Sexton of Xenia, Ohio

Meat Sheep-Shropshire Ewe

1. Grand champion shown by Charlie Skillington of Lewisburg, Tenn.
2. Reserve grand champion shown by Frank Sexton of Xenia, Ohio

            Meat Sheep-All other meat breeds - Ram  

1. Grand champion shown by Kevin Kuykendall of Richland Center, Wis.
2. Reserve grand champion shown by Beverly Simms of Albion, Ill.

Meat Sheep-All other meat breeds-Ewe

1. Grand champion shown by Kevin Kuykendall of Richland Center, Wis.
2. Reserve grand champion shown by Beverly Simms of Albion, Ill.

Meat Sheep-Suffolk Ram

1. Grand champion shown by Keith Gordon of Plainville, Ind.
2. Reserve grand champion shown by Kevin Kuykendall of Richland Center, Wis.

Meat Sheep-Suffolk Ewe

1. Grand champion shown by Kevin Kuykendall of Richland Center, Wis.
2. Reserve grand champion shown by Keith Gordon of Plainville, Ind.

Meat Sheep-Southdown Ram

1. Grand champion shown by Ginger Skillington of Lewisburg, Tenn.
2. Reserve grand champion shown by Carrie L. Wolford of Wytheville, Va.

Meat Sheep-Southdown Ewe

1. Grand champion shown by Kevin Kuykendall of Richland Center, Wis.
2. Reserve grand champion shown by Frank Sexton of Xenia, Ohio

Meat Sheep-Dorset Ram

1. Grand champion shown by Kevin Kuykendall of Richland Center, Wis.
2. Reserve grand champion shown by Keith Gordon of Plainville, Ind.

Meat Sheep-Dorset Ewe

1. Grand champion shown by Kevin Kuykendall of Richland Center, Wis.
2. Reserve grand champion shown by Keith Gordon of Plainville, Ind.

Meat Sheep-Hampshire Ram

1. Grand champion shown by Tom Huber of Watkinsville, Ga.
2. Reserve grand champion shown by Kevin Kuykendall of Richland Center, Wis.

Meat Sheep-Hampshire Ewe

1. Grand and reserve grand champions shown by Kevin Kuykendall of Richland Center, Wis.
   

Junior Meat Goats-Market Wether

1. Grand champion shown by Adam Barnhart, 15, of Locust
2. Reserve grand champion shown by Jonah Coley, 16, of Albemarle
   

Junior Meat Goats-Commercial Doe

1. Grand champion shown by Lindsey Beddingfield, 11, of Wendell
2. Reserve grand champion shown by Emily Baker, 15, of Wendell

Beef Cattle-Charolais

1. Grand champion female shown by Delores Templeton of Abbeville, S.C.
2. Reserve grand champion female shown by Ed Birdsell of Sparta
3. Grand champion bull shown by Jeffrey T. Banfield of Aberdeen
4. Reserve grand champion bull shown by Delores Templeton of Abbeville, S.C.

Beef Cattle-Gelbvieh

1. Grand and reserve grand champion females shown by William L. Teeter of Mooresville
2. Grand champion bull shown by Jim Blackwell of Gibson
3. Reserve grand champion bull shown by William L. Teeter of Mooresville

Beef Cattle-Hereford

1. Grand champion female shown by Katie Brown of Gainesville, Ga.
2. Reserve grand champion female shown by Kaitlyn Roudabush of Sandy Ridge
3. Grand champion bull shown by Morgan Dinsmore of Carneville, Ga.
4. Reserve grand champion bull shown by Jeremy Feller of Granite Falls

Beef Cattle-Red Angus

1. Grand and reserve grand champion females shown by Karl Holshouser of Castalia
2. Grand champion bull shown by John Langdon of Benson
3. Reserve grand champion bull shown by Donna Fulton of Lexington

Beef Cattle-All other breeds

1. Grand champion female shown by Taylor Ridling of Salisbury
2. Reserve grand champion female shown by Michelle Batten of Selma
3. Grand champion bull shown by James Johnson of Kenly
4. Reserve grand champion bull shown by Sally Coad of Louisburg

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