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Oklahoma City Home to National Land & Range Judging Contest for 66 Years Promoting Stewardship
Wed, 10 May 2017 16:30:04 CDT
Oklahoma City has hosted the National Land and Range Judging contest since its inception 66 years ago in 1951. Radio Oklahoma Ag Network Associate Farm Director Carson Horn spoke recently to the organizer of the event, Don Bartolina, prior to the commencement of the contest's award banquet held last week at the National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Museum. You can listen to their entire conversation by clicking or tapping the LISTEN BAR below at the bottom of this story.
According to Bartolina, this contest is very important to the conservation community that seeks to promote better land management practices and stewardship of our natural resources.
"We've only got so much land that we can grow food on and with the world population like it is, it's pretty important that we preserve the land that we've got," Bartolina said. "They're good students and they will be better stewards - they may not know it now, but they will be."
Bartolina says more than 600 4-H and FFA members from 33 states competed in this year's contest hosted by the Oklahoma Association of Conservation Districts. After two days of practice at sites in Oklahoma City, the contest was held at Turner Farms in Amber.
National championship trophies were awarded at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum to team and individual winners in each category of competition which include land judging, range judging and homesite evaluation. Each category included FFA and 4-H awards.
For a complete list of the contest winners, click here.
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