January 22, 2025
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – National Junior Hereford Association members brought their best to Oklahoma City’s red dirt during the 2025 Cattlemen’s Congress junior Hereford show held Jan. 8. Judge Parker Henley, Stillwater, Okla., evaluated the 208-head …
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – National Junior Hereford Association members brought their best to Oklahoma City’s red dirt during the 2025 Cattlemen’s Congress junior Hereford show held Jan. 8. Judge Parker Henley, Stillwater, Okla., evaluated the 208-head show to name the junior champions.
“When people bring you cattle like this to look at, it’s quite a compliment,” Henley said before selecting the grand champion horned female. “My hats go off to you all. These are phenomenal, and I hope if you look across this…man, there are some fantastic, unique animals out here that I think will have a long-term impact.”
In the junior horned female show, BR GKB RS Ruby L178 ET, owned by Aidyn Barber, Channing, Texas, was named grand champion. The June 3, 2023, daughter of KLD RW Marksman D87 ET, won the intermediate yearling female division. Fallon and Gunnar Gohr, Madras, Ore., captured reserve grand champion horned female honors with KD Lucky For You 363L ET, an April 20, 2023, daughter of BK BH Fast Ball F102 ET, from the spring yearling division.
HAWK Markle 9L ET and Kinnick Paulsen, Preston, Iowa, took home the grand champion junior polled female banner. From the junior yearling division, the winning entry is a Feb. 5, 2023, daughter of KLD RW Marksman D87 ET. The reserve grand champion junior polled female title went to Crew and Cara Cummins, Hollis, Okla., and Purple Cassidy 102L ET, a June 13, 2023, daughter of KLD RW Marksman D87 ET. She first won the intermediate yearling female division.
Visit Hereford.org for complete show results.
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The American Hereford Association (AHA), with headquarters in Kansas City, Mo., is one of the largest U.S. beef breed associations. The not-for-profit organization along with its subsidiaries — Certified Hereford BeefÒ (CHB) LLC, Hereford Publications Inc. (HPI) and the American Beef Records Association (ABRA) — provides programs and services for its members and their customers, while promoting the Hereford breed and supporting education, youth and research.