Good afternoon and welcome to the 2008 Minnesota State Fair FFA Awards Program.  It has been another week of success for FFA members from across the state and today we will celebrate and recognize those achievements.  Minnesota FFA members have experienced the legacy of FFA for eighty years.  The 2008 Minnesota State Fair has been no different with 618 total FFA members exhibiting an abundance of projects ranging from livestock to nursery landscape.  FFA members have begun their own legacy this year by weighing in 48 goats for the first ever FFA market goat show.  Thank you to all for making the 2008 Minnesota State Fair FFA Shows a success.  By being an exhibitor at the fair you truly continue to “Experience the Legacy.” 

With us today are some important guests who have helped make the 2008 Minnesota State Fair another successful year for FFA members.  Without their dedication, the FFA exhibits would not be possible.  Please stand when your name is called.    

Mr. Hutton-Douglas K. Baldwin winner – Jordana Thompson, Hayfield

Landscape

Champion Landscape Design – Academy for Food, Science and Agriculture

Crop Show awards

Champion First time exhibitor - Windom

Champion exhibitor – Jackson County Central

Best of Show – New York Mills

Dairy Awards

Individual Herdsman (sponsored by MDA) - ?

Champion Carcass Dairy Steer – Jason May, Randolph FFA Chapter.

Reserve Champion Carcass Dairy Steer – Andrea Ponchis, Alden Conger FFA. 

Chapter Herdsman - ?

Dairy Premiere Exhibitor (trophy) 1^st. Randolph score of 326/ 2^nd Sibley East score of 238/                            3^rd. Pipestone score of 235

Beef Awards

Champion Herdsman - ?

Reserve Champion Herdsman - ?

Champion Carcass Steer – Andrea Ponschis, Alden Conger FFA.

Reserve Champion Carcass Steer – Adam Jensen, Springfield. 

Premier Beef Exhibitor (trophy) 1st. St. Charles with a score of 162/ 2^nd. Randolph with a score of 91/ 3^rd LeRoy Ostrander with a score of 55

Sheep

Chapter Herdsman – Truman FFA Chapter.

Reserve Champion Herdsman – Pipestone FFA Chapter. 

Hickman Rookie Award – Katie Larson.  Medford FFA Chapter. 

Premier Sheep Exhibitor (trophy) -  1^st. New York Mills with a score of 311/ 2^nd. Chesego Lakes with a score of 246/ 3^rd. Randolph with a score of 157

Swine

Chapter Herdsman 1st. Dassel Cokato/ 2^nd. Kerkhoven-Merdock-Sunberg

Champion Market Showman Brady Buyer

Champion Breeding Showman Brian Buyer

Premier Swine Exhibitor (trophy) 1st. Kenyon Wanamingo with a score of 164/ 2^nd. Lewiston Altura with a score of 104/ 3^rd. Dassel Cokato with a score of 63

Goat

Chapter Herdsman - ?

Goat Senior Showmanship 1^st. Craig Barta Randolph/ 2^nd Jonathan Mittag Glenville Emmons

Junior Showmanship Chad Swanson Z-M/ 2^nd. Dan Larson Medford

Champion Goat Seth Friedrich Pine Island

Reserve Champion Goat Katie Larson

Overall

Premier Chapter Exhibitor Randolph with a score of 615/ 2^nd. Pipestone with a score of 381/ Kenyon Wanamingo with a score of 311