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Savannah’s Rodgers Takes Reserve Grand Champion Market Lamb

August 12, 2022 9:12AM CDT
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Savannah’s Rodgers Takes Reserve Grand Champion Market Lamb

A market lamb from Dent County proved to be a natural in the showring, winning Grand Champion at the 120th Missouri State Fair Thursday.

The 147-pound Natural Colors lamb was exhibited by Preslie Strader, a sophomore with Salem FFA. Strader said the breed wasn’t the only thing natural about the lamb that led her to the Sale of Champions.

Strader will make her first trip to the Sale of Champions, capping off a successful competition that also saw her lambs win the crossbred and speckled classes.

Reserve Grand Champion honors went to Payton Rodgers, representing Savannah FFA. It’ll be Rodgers’ third straight trip to the Sale of Champions, having won grand champion with a steer last year and a barrow in 2020. This also matches the streak her younger sister Reagan set last year.

Rodgers exhibited a Hampshire lamb weighing 126 pounds.

Howard County’s Braylin Brunkhorst won the 4-H division with her Hampshire lamb weighing 141 pounds. A crossbred weighing 151 pounds picked up division reserve, shown by Aubree Sloan of Clinton County.