AgriLife Extension’s Tom Green County 4-H team wins national 4-H wool judging contest
National FFA contest top honor goes to Hondo FFA
Writer: Steve Byrns, 325-653-4576, [email protected]
Contact: Pascual Hernandez, 325-387-3101, [email protected]
SONORA – The Tom Green County 4-H wool judging team nabbed the top spot to win the 56th annual National 4-H Wool Judging Contest held recently in Sonora.
The contest and its sister event, the 16th annual National FFA Wool Judging Contest, capped off three days of youth activities held in conjunction with the 79th annual Sonora Wool and Mohair Show June 14-16.
4-H is the youth component of the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service.
The Tom Green County 4-H team earned a score of 1,800 to best the Medina County 4-H team’s 1,739 points. Medina County edged out Wyoming’s Natona County 4-H, which had 1,616 points and was third place.
The winning Tom Green County team members were Matthew Salisbury, whose score of 618 points earned him high point individual honors for the entire contest, Ross Smith, Baylor Halfmann and Casie Weishuhn. Their coach was Dr. Mike Salisbury.
The Hondo FFA team coached by Timbo Tatsch won the National FFA Wool Judging Contest with 1,786 points, slipping past second-place Marion FFA by only three points. Emily Reily of the Marion team earned the contest’s overall high-scoring individual honors with a score of 606 points.
The Hondo FFA team members were Devin Gonzales, Emma Lessing, Max Bales and Hanah Jones.
The national 4-H and FFA wool judging contests are the premier events of the Sonora Wool and Mohair Show. The show features youth judging contests and wool and mohair fleece competitions. The event is sponsored by the Sonora Lions Club and Sonora Chamber of Commerce in cooperation with AgriLife Extension.
A complete list of all the contests, winners and key pictures are available at: http://sutton.agrilife.org.
