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Nationally Known Livestock Judge Raves About Numbers and Quality of Animals and Kids at OYE
Sun, 15 Mar 2015 06:22:02 CDT
Overall livestock entry numbers are up, across all species in 2015 versus 2014 at the 100th Anniversary edition of the Oklahoma Youth Expo. Based on actual purebred and commercial gilt numbers of animals that showed up versus those that were entered, the judges that will be looking at the market hog show this coming week could well see approximately 3,000 hogs in 2015. There were 1,190 purebred gilts judged this past Friday- and 1,160 commercial crossbred gilts judged on Saturday- and the quality of those animals was tremendous. The high end of those animals have been selected for the Breeding Gilt Sale that will be held Wednesday evening at 7:00 PM.
Farm Director Ron Hays talked with Purebred Judge Mark Hoge at a break between judging breeds on Friday. Dr. Hoge is an Associate Professor at Western Illinois University in Macomb, Illinois- and judges livestock shows across the nation. He raved about both the quality of the gilts he was seeing, about the kids showing them and the incredible numbers of hogs that were a part of the 2015 Oklahoma Youth Expo. Dr. Hoge told Hays "The pigs that are exhibited here at OYE are absolutely incredible- very, very close decisions, but probably more impressive here are the number of young people that are here that have their projects impeccably presented and ready for the show ring."
On the numbers that were entered for the 2015 event- Hoge says "this will be the largest hog show- probably- in the history of the US."
Hays also asked him about the kind of pig he was looking for as he sorted through the huge numbers of breeding gilts at the event and what he believes is the value of a show like this to the young people that participate. You can hear the conversation that Ron had with Dr. Hoge by clicking on the LISTEN BAR below.
Our Coverage of the 2015 Oklahoma Youth Expo is a service of ITC Great Plains, Your Energy Superhighway- learn more about this high voltage, transmission only utility and their commitment to the communities they serve which is the cornerstone of their business- click here for their website. We also salute the title sponsor of the 2015 OYE, McDonalds- click here for the Oklahoma website for the Golden Arches.
Reports will be heard daily on great radio stations that cover Oklahoma and that are a part of the Radio Oklahoma Ag Network- on the internet- our reports of the 2015 OYE can be found on the Blue Green Gazette page- available here. We will be adding pictures daily to our official 2015 OYE Album of Photos on FLICKR, found here.
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