Milo Dairy Farm Earns Top Honors In Iowa State Fair Milking Shorthorn Show
August 18, 2011
Byers Dairy Farm of Milo took home both Premier Exhibitor and Premier Breeder honors in the Milking Shorthhorn Dairy Cattle show at the 2011 Iowa State Fair.
The Grand Champion Female was shown by Lands-Brook Farms of St. Olaf, and the Roth family of Milford, Neb., earned the Reserve Grand Champion Female banner.
Lands-Brook Farms was runner-up to Byers Dairy Farm for both the Premier Exhibitor and Premier Breeder awards in the show.
The Premier Breeder Award is given to the competitor that 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.
Junior Heifer Calf - March 1 to May 31, 2011
1) Byers Dairy Farm, Milo
2) Mysha Herd, St. Anthony
3) Megan Bushman, Calmar
4) Gibbs Holsteins, Epworth
5) Jon, James and Meredith Roth, Milford, Neb.
6) Henkeseen, Luana
7) Byers Dairy Farm, Milo
Intermediate Heifer Calf - Dec. 1, 2010 to Feb. 28, 2011
1) Byers Dairy Farm, Milo
2) Mysha Herd, St. Anthony
Senior Heifer Calf - Sept. 1to Nov. 30, 2010
1) Jon, James and Meredith Roth, Milford, Neb.
2) Elron Farms, Lost Nation
3) Ashley Bushman, Calmar
4) Lands-Brook Farms, St. Olaf
5) Ally Bierschenk, Van Horne
6) Mysha Herd, St. Anthony
7) Justamere Farm, Wayland
8) Cherry Wood Farm, Ackley
9) WoodCrest Farm, Strawberry Point
10) Cherry Wood Farm, Ackley
Summer Yearling Heifer - June 1to Aug. 31, 2010
1) Lan-Sing Hills, West Union
2) Gibbs Holsteins, Epworth
3) Lands-Brook Farms, St. Olaf
4) Breezy Ridge Dairy, Epworth
5) Justamere Farm, Wayland
6) Breezy Ridge Dairy, Epworth
7) Blue Moon, Waukon
8) Byers Dairy Farm, Milo
9) Mysha Herd, St. Anthony
Junior Yearling Heifer - Mar. 1toMay 31, 2010
1) Lands-Brook Farms, St. Olaf
2) Elron Farms, Lost Nation
3) Byers Dairy Farm, Milo
4) Elron Farms, Lost Nation
5) Byers Dairy Farm, Milo
6) WoodCrest Farm, Strawberry Point
Winter Yearling Heifer - Dec.1, 2009-Feb. 28, 2010
1) Mysha Herd, St. Anthony
2) Lan-Sing Hills, West Union
Senior Yearling Heifer (not in milk) - Sept.1to Nov. 30, 2009
1) WoodCrest Farm, Strawberry Point
2) Mysha Herd, St. Anthony
Junior Best Three Females
1) Elron Farms, Lost Nation
2) Lands-Brook Farms, St. Olaf
3) Mysha Herd, St. Anthony
4) Byers Dairy Farm, Milo
Junior Two-Year-Old Cow - March 1to Aug. 31, 2009
1) Lands-Brook Farms, St. Olaf
2) Byers Dairy Farm, Milo
3) Jon, James and Meredith Roth, Milford, Neb.
4) Green Knoll Farms, McGregor
5) Cost Farms, Long Grove
6) WoodCrest Farm, Strawberry Point
Senior Two-Year-Old Cow - Sept. 1, 2008 to Feb. 28, 2009
1) Lands-Brook Farms, St. Olaf
2) Byers Dairy Farm, Milo
3) Cherry Wood Farm, Ackley
4) Justamere Farm, Wayland
Junior Three-Year-Old Cow - March 1to Aug. 31, 2008
1) Justamere Farm, Wayland
2) Byers Dairy Farm, Milo
3) WoodCrest Farm, Strawberry Point
4) Elron Farms, Lost Nation
5) Jon, James and Meredith Roth, Milford, Neb.
6) WoodCrest Farm, Strawberry Point
Senior Three-Year-Old Cow - Sept. 1, 2007 to Feb. 29, 2008
1) Lands-Brook Farms, St. Olaf
Four-Year-Old Cow - Sept. 1, 2006-Aug. 31, 2007
1) Byers Dairy Farm, Milo
2) Green Knoll Farms, McGregor
3) WoodCrest Farm, Strawberry Point
Five-Year-Old Cow - Sept. 1, 2005-Aug. 31, 2006
1) Jon, James and Meredith Roth, Milford, Neb.
2) Byers Dairy Farm, Milo
3) Byers Dairy Farm, Milo
Component Merit
1) Byers Dairy Farm, Milo
Best Three Head
1) Lands-Brook Farms, St. Olaf
2) Justamere Farm, Wayland
3) Jon, James and Meredith Roth, Milford, Neb.
4) Elron Farms, Lost Nation
Best Four Head
1) Lands-Brook Farms, St. Olaf
2) Byers Dairy Farm, Milo
3) Justamere Farm, Wayland
4) Jon, James and Meredith Roth, Milford, Neb.
5) Elron Farms, Lost Nation
6) WoodCrest Farm, Strawberry Point
Junior Champion Female: Jon, James and Meredith Roth, Milford, Neb
Junior Reserve Champion Female: Lan-Sing Hills, West Union
Intermediate Champion Female: Lands-Brook Farms, St. Olaf
Intermediate Reserve Champion Female: Lands-Brook Farms, St. Olaf
Senior Champion Female: Jon, James and Meredith Roth, Milford, Neb.
Senior Reserve Champion Female: Byers Dairy Farm, Milo
“Nothing Compares” to the 2011 Iowa State Fair, celebrating 100 years of the Butter Cow August 11-21. The Fairgrounds are located at East 30th and East University Avenue, just 10 minutes east of downtown Des Moines, and are open 7 a.m. to 1 a.m. each day of the Fair. Exhibit hours may vary. For more information, call 800/545-FAIR or visit iowastatefair.org.
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