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At age four I took my first steps into the showring leading my heifer I named Batgirl, little did anyone know that day a fire, passion, and love started that would carry on eighteen years later. During the late 90s my parents hosted the Showgirls Elite Heifer Sale that consisted of mainly Maine-Anjou, Chianina and Shorthorn females. Fast forward a few years, to avoid competing against my parents’ customers I
Nationals in Kansas City, I was hooked. Soon junior nationals became “the best week of summer break.” A few years later we bought a Hereford heifer from Bruce Everhart that went on to be Reserve Supreme Heifer at Indiana State Fair in 2011 and became our foundation Hereford donor female. In high school it was hard to find my balance of showing cattle, playing basketball, and still be a kid hanging with friends. Most of my friends growing up thought what my family and I do made no sense. My last year of 4-H I told my parents
I wanted get back into the Maine-Anjou’s, so we purchased a High Maine heifer that year that became my most difficult project. The only way I was able to show her was with a nose ring. She was Reserve Supreme Heifer at Indiana State Fair in 2019 and Reserve Supreme Maine-Anjou at the National Western in 2020. Those wins made all the rope burns, days kicked, and the tears worth it. The fall before my freshman year of college we went to Dustin Ogburn’s to look at a Hereford heifer. We drove to this field to find a baby Hereford
swimming in a pond on this super-hot Kentucky day. That swimming baby Hereford became my best friend and favorite show heifer of all time. She was named Reserve Supreme Hereford as a calf in NAILE in 2019. That summer during the pandemic she won her division at Junior Nationals. Following junior nationals, she passed away. My heart was shattered. The following months I struggled in the barn, at times I honestly was not sure if I would ever find the passion again. What we do in this industry is tough. My family is
found a love for the Hereford breed in 2007. I attended my first Hereford Junior
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