Ohio State Fair Sale of Champions results announced

Auction Totals Record-Setting $394,500, Breaks Four Individual Records
COLUMBUS – During this 12 months’s modified Ohio State Fair, beneficiant agriculture advocates supported Ohio’s youth on the 52nd Sale of Champions livestock public sale within the Ag-Pro Companies Taft Coliseum. The 2021 occasion set a number of information, together with the very best total complete, highest quantity raised for the Youth Reserve Program, and new information for the Reserve Grand Champion Market Barrow, Reserve Grand Champion Market Chickens, Grand Champion Market Turkey, and Grand Champion Swiss Cheese.
“These compassionate consumers assist the person exhibitors, in addition to hundreds of youth taking part in annually’s Fair,” defined Ohio State Fair General Manager Virgil Strickler. “When they take part within the Sale of Champions, additionally they assist fund the Youth Reserve Program, making a big impact on all younger exhibitors.”
Established in 1995, the Youth Reserve Program was developed to reward junior exhibitors who take part within the Ohio State Fair. Funds for this system come from the {dollars} acquired over a cap that’s positioned on the quantity an exhibitor can obtain from the Sale of Champions. The funds from this system are distributed amongst carcass contests, scholarships, excellent market exhibitor program, excellent breeding exhibitor program, showmanship, skillathons, 4-H, and FFA.
Today, the livestock public sale raised $394,500, together with $306,000 for the Youth Reserve Program. Since its inception, the Youth Reserve Program has awarded greater than $3.5 million to roughly 40,000 youth exhibitors.
While these Junior Fair exhibitors take nice satisfaction in elevating a high quality animal, the final word aim annually is to be awarded a grand champion ribbon. Grand or reserve champion is an immense honor for the exhibitor; and with the Youth Reserve Program and beneficiant consumers, it’s rewarding for the complete Junior Fair program. This 12 months’s sale broke 4 information: reserve grand champion market beef, reserve grand champion market barrow, reserve grand champion market lamb and grand champion market turkey.
The 2021 Sale of Champions results are as follows:
Grand Champion Market Steer
Exhibited by: Carson Shafer, Preble County
Purchased by: Mark and Megan Kvamme and Family
Price: $71,000
Cap: $22,000
 
Reserve Grand Champion Market Steer
Exhibited by: Delaney Jones, Allen County
Purchased by: Steve R. Rauch, Inc.
Price: $66,000
Cap: $11,000
 
Grand Champion Market Barrow
Exhibited by: Aiden Knecht, Fayette County
Purchased by: Mark and Megan Kvamme and Family
Price: $55,000
Cap: $10,000
 
*Reserve Grand Champion Market Barrow
Exhibited by: Cade Peterson, Ottawa County
Purchased by: Bob Evans Farms, Ohio Farm Bureau Federation, The Kroger Company
Price: $52,000
Cap: $7,000
 
Grand Champion Market Chickens
Exhibited by: Zane Ortman, Perry County
Purchased by: Gerber Poultry, The Kroger Company
Price: $22,000
Cap: $6,000
 
*Reserve Champion Market Chickens
Exhibited by: Abecka Ruggles, Huron County
Purchased by: Mark and Megan Kvamme and Family
Price: $21,500
Cap: $4,000
 
Grand Champion Market Lamb
Exhibited by: Bailee Amstutz, Union County
Purchased by: Mark and Megan Kvamme and Family
Price: $23,000
Cap: $10,000
 
Reserve Grand Champion Market Lamb
Exhibited by: Kaitlyn Zeedyk, Defiance County
Purchased by: Steve R. Rauch, Inc.
Price: $15,000
Cap: $7,000
 
Grand Champion Market Goat
Exhibited by: Paige Pence, Clark County
Purchased by: The Kroger Company
Price: $16,000
Cap: $5,000
 
*Grand Champion Market Turkey
Exhibited by: Johnathan Woodward, Coshocton County
Purchased by: Cooper Farms, Event Marketing Strategies, OKI Inc., Tim and Glenda Huffman, Concessions by Cox
Price: $20,000
Cap: $3,000
 
*Grand Champion Swiss Cheese, produced by Pearl Valley Cheese, representing the seven dairy champions and supreme dairy showmen
Exhibited by:
Grand Champion Ayshire: Logan Topp, Auglaize County
Grand Champion Brown Swiss: Madicyn Rupp, Wayne County
Grand Champion Guernsey: Aubree Topp, Shelby County
Grand Champion Holstein: Kayla Cring, Huron County
Grand Champion Jersey: Blake Greiwe, Shelby County
Grand Champion Milking Shorthorn: Aubree Topp, Shelby County
Grand Champion Red and White: Lily Elsass, Auglaize County
Supreme Showman, Week 1 – Exhibited by: Tim Gunkleman, Wayne County
Supreme Showman, Week 2 – Exhibited by: Madelyn Topp, Auglaize County
Purchased by: AG Boogher and Son, S&S Volvo, Turn-er Green LLC
Price: $33,000
Cap: $3,500
 
2021 complete sale: $394,500
2021 quantity earned for Youth Reserve Program: $306,000
 
*Denotes new file
 
The Ohio Expo Center is a year-round, multi-purpose conference and assembly facility. The 2022 Ohio State Fair can be held July 27 – August 7, 2022.
 
 
 
 

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