The winning Five-Year-Old Cow, Oakfield Tato Tender-ET, took home Senior and Grand Champion titles at the 2024 International Junior Holstein Show at World Dairy Expo® on Sunday. For this honor, Tender and owners, Chloe and Claire Lamb, of Oakfield, N.Y., received the $650 Udder Comfort Grand Champion Cash Award and the Lillian & Keith King and Jim King Grand Champion of the Junior Show Award. The Reserve Senior Champion and Reserve Grand Champion was the winning Four-Year-Old, Liddleholme Mucho-ET owned by Derek George of Arcade, N.Y.
Official judge, Mandi Bue of Freedom, Wis., and associate judge, John Erbsen of Lanark, Ill., evaluated the 260 entries in the International Junior Holstein Show.
The Intermediate Champion, Peace&Plenty Tat Jubie41-ET, was the winning Senior Two-Year-Old. She is owned by Hadley Faye Ross of Delavan, Wis. Kings-Ransom Doc Drizzlin, owned by Lauren King, of Schuylerville, N.Y, was the winning Junior Three-Year-Old and Reserve Intermediate Champion.
Junior Champion of the 2024 International Junior Holstein Show was awarded to the first-place Summer Yearling, Ocean-View Sassin Me Back, owned by Lily Jenson and Sage Dornan of Deerfield, Wis. With this honor, she takes home the $250 Junior Champion of the Junior Show Cash Award, presented by Misty Meadow Dairy, the Hogan Family, of Tillamook, Ore. Shadow-W Sk Adored-ET rose to the top of the Winter Calf Class before being named Reserve Junior Champion at WDE. Adored is owned by Madison and Macray Price of Chebanse, Ill.