Journal 1

Journal 1

 

Livestock Judging season is getting closer and closer and I am finally starting to feel the pressure of being better than I was last year. Livestock Judging is placing four animals in order from the most ideal animal to the least ideal animal based on their muscle, profile, and carcass merit for market animals and volume, femininity, and structural correctness for breeding lievestock. Once you have placed your class of animals, for example 3-2-1-4, where 3 is the most ideal animal and 4 is the least ideal animal, you must then give a set of reasons, which are a short speech saying why you placed 3 over 2, 2 over 1, and 2 over 4, based on their attributes that would make them a better market, or better breeding animal. Last year at state FFA convention I placed 3rd high in reasons because I have a good voice and can talk and placed 6th high overall in Market Beef animals. My personal goal this year is to at least be high man overall in reasons and hopefully be high man overall in beef because that would look great for a college and scholarships. My wish is that my team will be able to concentrate on the contest and not on that excitment of State Convention and hopefully we will be able to represent the state of Wyoming at National FFA Convention in Indianapolis, Indiana next fall.