The people have spoken, and their votes have crowned the inaugural People’s Choice Supreme Champions at the All-American Dairy Show.
This year, the traditional Supreme Champion Pageant, typically held at the conclusion of the open shows, was replaced with a new People’s Choice Supreme Champion Contest. The updated format featured a social media voting campaign spotlighting the seven Open Show Grand Champions and seven Junior Champions, giving fans and fellow exhibitors the chance to vote for their favorite.
The 2025 People’s Choice Supreme Champion is Hollow View Tank Tillie (EX-92), the Grand Champion and Best Bred and Owned winner of the All-American National Guernsey Show. Tillie is exhibited by Kolby Stoltzfus of Warwick Manor Farm in East Earl, Pa.
The 2025 People’s Choice Supreme Junior Champion is Spots Pride SW Patagonia-ETV, the Junior Champion and Junior Best Bred and Owned of the Brown Swiss Show. Patagonia is exhibited by Amy and Emily Yeiser of Spots Pride Farm in Butler, Pa.
This year’s honors are especially meaningful: both champions are homebred animals from Pennsylvania, chosen by fellow exhibitors and supporters to carry the first-ever People’s Choice Supreme Champion titles.
Warwick Manor Farm, home to Tillie, traces its roots back to 1999 when Kevin and Dina Stoltzfus established the current operation, though the Warwick Manor prefix began with Kevin’s grandparents, Raymond and Elma Peachy. Kevin’s grandparents bottled and delivered Guernsey milk throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Today, the farm’s Guernsey milk is processed at Yoder’s Country Market, where Golden Guernsey Milk and ice cream can be found on shelves in New Holland, Pa.
Now, a new generation is stepping up. Brother and sister duo Kolby Stoltzfus and Karli Horning serve as herdsmen, caring daily for 50 milk cows and 70 heifers. “At the end of the day, Warwick Manor’s goal is to breed and market great Guernseys,” said Kaila Zimmerman, Kevin and Dina’s eldest daughter. “We were honored to win Breeder and Premier Exhibitor at the 2025 and 2024 Guernsey shows at the All-American, and also Premier Exhibitor at the National Guernsey Show in Louisville in 2024.”
Tillie first entered the show ring in 2022, winning Junior 2-Year-Old at the National Guernsey Show in Louisville. By 2024, she made history, earning three national junior show Grand Champion titles, an achievement few Guernsey cows have ever made. Bred from one of Elsie Wolff’s Hollow View cow families, Tillie represents a partnership between Warwick Manor and Wolff’s breeding program.
For the Stoltzfus family, the People’s Choice title is deeply personal. “I have been exhibiting at the All-American Dairy Show for the past 35 years, but this is the first time Warwick Manor has exhibited the Grand Champion Guernsey,” said Kevin Stoltzfus. “For Tillie to go on and win the People’s Choice Supreme Champion means even more. We are so honored and grateful. Every year Warwick Manor looks forward to exhibiting at the All-American, and we are thankful to everyone who makes this show possible.”
The Spots Pride herd is owned by Amy and Joe Leslie, Emily Yeiser Stepp and Amy
and Emily’s parents, Gail and Rusty Yeiser. All of their animals are born and raised through weaning at Palmyra Farm in Hagerstown, Md., and the show heifers are raised through calving at Bullcreek Boarding, at Amy and Joe’s farm in Butler, Pa.
“We started our involvement in the dairy industry through the 4-H leasing program in Maryland and made a small $850 investment in 1999 to purchase our first Brown Swiss calf,” said Emily Yeiser Stepp. “All of our Brown Swiss go back to that original purchase from the Mid-Atlantic Brown Swiss Calf Sale.”
In 2024, Patagonia was the second winter calf and first Best Bred and Owned at World Dairy
Expo in a class of 52. She went on to be named the Spots Pride herd’s first Reserve All-American. Patagonia is a Secret Weapon out of Spots Pride Penny (EX-91), a Winmore daughter. Penny is also the dam of Spots Pride Famous Play (EX-91) and Spots Pride Famous Play It Again (EX-90).
Play was Reserve Junior Champion at the 2019 All-American Dairy Show and the herd’s first All-American nomination in more than 15 years. Play It Again was sold to Milksource in 2021 and went on to be named Reserve Junior Champion of the Junior Show, Honorable Mention Junior Champion at World Dairy Expo and Reserve All-American in 2022.
Secret Weapon Pearl, also Reserve Junior Champion at the 2022 All-American Dairy Show, Play It Again, and Dynamite Present (Dynamite x Play) were recognized as the third Junior Best Three Females at the 2022 World Dairy Expo and went on to be named Honorable Mention All-American.
The All-American Dairy Show holds a special place in the Spots Pride team’s heart. “It
was the first ‘big’ show for us and the first banners we ever earned,” shared Amy and Emily. “Being selected as the People’s Choice Supreme Champion feels like a full-circle moment, a chance to celebrate the show we’ve loved for so long and all the people who have surrounded and supported us along the way. A huge thank-you goes out to everyone who voted for Patagonia and our sincerest appreciation for the All-American Dairy Show staff and volunteers who put on this fantastic event every year.”
