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Hereford Champions Named in the Sooner State

Hereford Champions Named in the Sooner State

January 22, 2025

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Exhibitors donned red vests and stepped onto the red dirt as judges Brett Barber, Channing, Texas, and Bryden Barber, Perkins, Okla., sorted the open Hereford shows during the Cattlemen’s Congress in …


KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Exhibitors donned red vests and stepped onto the red dirt as judges Brett Barber, Channing, Texas, and Bryden Barber, Perkins, Okla., sorted the open Hereford shows during the Cattlemen’s Congress in Oklahoma City, Okla. The father-son duo evaluated the 194-head female show and 60-head bull show. A total of 506 Herefords were exhibited throughout the four-day national Hereford show, Jan. 8-11.

Bull show champions 

C GKB Cimmaron 3125 ET, owned by GKB Cattle, Desdemona, Texas, and Colyer Herefords, Bruneau, Idaho, topped the horned bull show. A Jan. 10, 2023, son of ECR 628 Advance 9490 ET, the winning entry was also named champion yearling bull. Silo Creek Farm, New Windsor, Md., and Lane and Logan Cady, New Windsor, Md., showed the reserve grand champion horned bull, SILO H18 Brandston 2404 ET, a Feb. 3, 2024, son of BK Red River H18 ET from the junior bull calf division.

In the polled bull show, Tennessee River Music Inc., Fort Payne, Ala., and Andrew and Suzanne Matheny, Mayslick, Ky., took home top honors with ASM 405B Red Man 325L ET. The champion yearling bull is a Feb. 22, 2023, son of NJW 79Z Z311 Endure 173D ET. B&C Cattle Co., Miami, Texas, grabbed the reserve grand champion polled bull banner with B&C End Zone 3535L ET, a Nov. 24, 2023, son of EF MF Longest Yard 19Z 228J ET. He first won the senior bull calf division.

“It’s fun out here to sort an outstanding set of cattle that I think will take our breed and continue to put us on the forefront of the commercial industry,” Brett said before selecting the champion polled bull.  

Female show champions 

Adalynn Blankenship, West Burlington, N.Y., and KJ TWJ 907E Cherry 374L ET, claimed the grand champion horned female title. The Nov. 2, 2023, daughter of KLD RW Marksman D87 ET, also won the senior heifer calf division. For showing the grand champion horned Hereford female at this year’s Cattlemen’s Congress, Blankenship will be the first to have her name engraved on a hand-carved traveling trophy in honor of Gary and Kathy Buchholz, Desdemona, Texas. GKB 1314 Cher M127 ET, a March 23, 2024, daughter of BR GKB Winchester 1314, exhibited by GKB Cattle, Desdemona, Texas, and Express Ranches, Yukon, Okla., was named the reserve grand champion horned female and the champion division II spring heifer calf.

Kinnick Paulsen, Preston, Iowa, exhibited the grand champion polled female, HAWK Markle 9L ET, a Feb. 5, 2023, daughter of KLD RW Marksman D87 ET, from the junior yearling division. Additionally, the exhibitor of the grand champion polled Hereford female at the Cattlemen’s Congress will have their name engraved on a traveling trophy in memory of Jarold Callahan. EXR High Class Kat 3201 ET was crowned the reserve grand champion polled female. Shown by Cara Cummins, Hollis, Okla., she is Jan. 1, 2023, daughter of EXR Bankroll 8130 ET. She was also named the reserve champion junior yearling female.  

“I’m very proud of the cattle we have out here,” Bryden said before selecting the champion polled female.

In the cow-calf pair show, Braxton Lockhart, Caldwell, Texas, exhibited the champion polled pair with DBLL HG 018 Jada 268, a June 22, 2022, daughter of Bar Star Fresh Prince 018 ET, and a December bull calf, by H Montgomery 7437 ET. Haleigh Ferguson, Windsor, Mo., won the reserve champion polled cow-calf pair title with WBS Advantage Wilma 006, a March 12, 2020, daughter of C&L Advantage M326 22S ET. She showed with a June bull calf by HNS STK Big League Hitter 011 at her side. 

Other show awards

After the selection of champions, Landry Allan, Nocona, Texas, claimed horned premier breeder honors, and T/R Cattle Co., Glencoe, Okla., received the polled premier breeder title. GKB Cattle took home the horned premier exhibitor title, and Ella Weldon, Piedmont, Okla., was named the polled premier exhibitor.

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