HUTCHINSON – Youth from across the state came to Hutchinson to compete for cash premiums and scholarships during the 86th Kansas Junior Livestock Show (KJLS), Oct. 5-7. The largest youth livestock show in Kansas featured 723 4-H and FFA members from 91 counties exhibiting 1,519 head of livestock. This is the largest number of livestock shown at KJLS since 1988.  

Results for area participants include:

Great Bend: Steele Brack: 13th in class 11 - Meat Goat, 2nd in class 25 - Market Lamb, 5th in class 8 - Commercial Doe Kid, 7th in class 7 - Commercial Doe Kid, 8th in class 13 - Commercial Ewe Lamb; Dalton Dicks: 1st in class 41 - Chianina Breeding Heifer; Parker Dicks: 2nd in class 39 - MaineTainer Breeding Heifer; 

Pawnee Rock: Dylan Ferguson, 9th in class 45 - Commercial Breeding Heifer

Kanopolis: Noah Goss: 8th in class 32 - Simmental Pct Breeding Heifer

Ellsworth: Hadley Huseman: 13th in class 18 - Commercial Gilt; Paxton Huseman,  5th in class 11 - Dark Cross Market Barrow, Champion Poland Gilt; 

Geneseo: Breckyn Rush, 10th in class 11 - Meat Goat, 2nd in class 3 - Commercial Ewe Lamb, 5th in Intermediate Sheep Showmanship, 9th in class 10 - Commercial Doe Kid; Kaine Rush, 2nd in class 7 - Commercial Ewe Lamb, 4th in Junior Sheep Showmanship, 8th in class 9 - Meat Goat;

Wilson: Lukas Sebesta, 5th in class 22 - Market Lamb, 6th in class 8 - AOB Breeding Ewe; Rachel Sebesta, 4th in Senior LEAD Challenge, 5th in class 7 - Commercial Ewe Lamb, 7th in class 23 - Market Lamb

Rozel: Chancey Hauck, 5th in class 14 - Crossbred Market Steer, 5th in class 15 - Crossbred Market Steer, 7th in class 43 - AOB Breeding Heifer

Larned: Ethan Lemuz, 4th in class 16 - Red Angus Breeding Heifer; Grayson Maxwell, 10th in class 15 - Market Lamb, 6th in class 7 - Suffolk Breeding Ewe

Little River: Cole Dieball, 1st in class 9 - Hereford Breeding Heifer, 2nd in class 10 - Hereford Breeding Heifer; Taylor Dieball, 1st in Senior LEAD Challenge, 2nd in class 11 - Hereford Breeding Heifer, 3rd in Senior Beef Showmanship

Sterling: Skylar Eidson,  8th in class 45 - Commercial Breeding Heifer

Lorraine: Carter Stansbury, 8th in class 24 - Market Lamb; Ella Stansbury, 3rd in class 25 - Market Lamb

Otis: Cora Anderson, 3rd in class 11 - Crossbred Market Steer, 6th in class 4 - Shorthorn Plus Market Steer

Olmitz: Jenna Hlavaty, 3rd in class 30 - Simmental Breeding Heifer, 5th in class 6 - Simmental Market Steer

Albert: Kolton Maneth, 4th in class 44 - Commercial Breeding Heifer, 7th in class 3 - Shorthorn Market Steer

Lacrosse: Ethan Petersilie, 9th in class 20 - Commercial Gilt, 9th in class 9 - Yorkshire Gilt

Russell: Kaylee Anglin, Champion Maintainer Market Steer; Katherine Krauss, 1st in class 24 - Market Lamb, 2nd in class 14 - Crossbred Market Steer, 8th in class 21 - Market Lamb, Reserve Champion Hereford Market Steer; Braden Mai, 6th in class 15 - Commercial Gilt, 6th in class 18 - Commercial Gilt

Paradise: Ethan Dickerson, 2nd in class 1 - Angus Breeding Heifer, Reserve Champion Red Angus Breeding Heifer, Jayce Dickerson, 1st in Senior Beef Showmanship, 2nd in class 6 - Angus Breeding Heifer, Champion Charolais Breeding Heifer

Russell

St. John: Ian Dunn, 7th in class 34 - Gelbvieh Breeding Heifer; Preston Dunn, 5th in class 34 - Gelbvieh Breeding Heifer; Makayla Meyer, 14th in class 8 - Market Lamb

Macksville: Cali Newdigger, 8th in class 19 - Shorthorn Breeding Heifer; Cody Newdigger, 11th in class 10 - Commercial Doe Kid, 14th in class 12 - Meat Goat, 9th in class 13 - Hereford Breeding Heifer