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Hi all. Sorry this is late but just to give you an update on the judging team and the results from Liousville, Kentucky at the North American International Livestock Exposition (NAILE). We left for the contest on Friday the 13th and judged at various farms along the way. We stopped at a hog workout in Tipton Illinois, and thenwe also stopped at Purdue University and judged lambs and cattle classes. After these detours we headed into Liousville to pick up our other teammate who had gone down already for the market lamb show. After catching up with him we had a workout of breeding ewes in Lexington. Monday morning we watched the National Junior Red Angus show, National Suffolk show, and National Shorthorn show. Tuesday was the big day!!! We judged 11 classes and gave four sets of reasons along with two sets of questions. The results were given at the awards banquet on Wednesday morning. As a team we placed 9th overall and got 5th in beef. There were a total of 29 teams at the contest. We said goodbye to Liousville on Wednesday morning and were back in Minnesota by 11 o'clock that night.

MN Farm Girl
 
Congratulations! You did well. I have relatives in Southwest Minnesota who are in 4-H. They are Andersons from Benson. I was a charter member of the first 4-H club in Cherry County Nebraska. That was in 1937. Stocker-Feeder clubs had started in the range areas about then. Instead of feeding from weaned calves to yearlings and selling as fat cattle we raised the calf to the time it was weaned selling at that time to , hopefully, a 4-H kid interested in feeding it out. We were required to add all the expenses of taking care of the cow from the time the calf was born for a full year.

My dad had gone to college with the new county agent. One of the first places he visited was ours. A young rancher just out of Ag College at the University of Nebraskaa agreed to be our leader. My brother and I, 2 cousins and another neighbor boy were the charter members, Our leader came up with a timely title for our club. We called it the "Future Ranchers." The leader and our original five charter members had our picture taken on our 50th Anniversary in 1987. All of us were still living on ranches with sons managing them. We were all still living on our ranches in 1997 with the exception of our leader who had moved to live in town. One cousin and myself are the only ones still living at this time. We still live on our ranches.

I owe a lot of my enthusiasm and success to 4-H competition and training. I hold it very much responsible for my never having any other occupation in mind other than raising cattle in the Sandhills of Nebraska.

It would be nice if you could give some information on your experiences and projects that you are involved in. I am certain you will look back at it as a rewarding part of your life.
 
Bob M - I know Randy Anderson from that area. Is he with the Anderson faimly you're related to?
 
mn said:
Bob M - I know Randy Anderson from that area. Is he with the Anderson faimly you're related to?
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Randy is my first cousin. Bob M is my dad, and my mother was Randy's dad's sister. Bob M's brother and Randy's dad were army buddies in Japan during World War II. When they parted ways they promised to attend each other's weddings, if and when the time came. Dad met Mom on one of those auspicious occasions, and to these happenings I owe my very existence. :roll: :wink: :-)
 
Thank You Soapweed for filling Minnesota Farm Girl in on our connection with Minnesota people. I have never met anyone from your state that I didn't like. Soapweed explaiined how his mother and me got acquainted. At the time my brother got married in Greeley Colorado on September 4, 1949, Soapweed's Uncle Bruce would have more than 800 miles to travel to fulfill his promise to attend his buddy's wedding. He didn't want to do it all by himself so talked his pretty sister, who was working in the Northwest Bank in Minneapolis, into coming with him. Am I ever happy that happened! She was a wonderful wiife and mother for 53 years until she passed away in 2004. [/url]
 

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