One hundred and three youngsters from Echols, Lanier, and Lowndes counties are registered to exhibit their hogs in today’s 33rd Annual Lowndes Area Market Show and Sale. These elementary, middle, and high school students are members of either local 4H or FFA organizations.
The show will be held at the Lowndes County Civic Center, with judging of weight divisions beginning at 5 p.m. Hogs will be judged according to market standards for providing the best pork possible. Showmanship classes will follow, where the students will be evaluated for their success in exhibiting their animal.
Livestock show judge Jack Wall, a University of Georgia Extension Agent from Telfair County, will have the difficult task of placing the hogs in the show.
He will be assisted with showmanship judging by Madison County, Fla., Agriculture Teacher Ed Sapp.
At show time these students will have been working with their hogs for about nine weeks. Students will sell their hogs on Wednesday, beginning with the Grand Champion and the other Blue Ribbon hogs at 7 p.m.
The show is sponsored in part by the Langdale Company, the Lowndes County Farm Bureau and the Echols County Farm Bureau.
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