Spotlight Sale nets 4-Hers $24,800

Tuesday, July 16, 2024 at 1:15 PM

By Wes Dehne

Fulton County 4-H Fair culminates with Livestock Auction and Spotlight Sale

Thirteen 4-H members earned a total of $24,800 at Friday’s Fulton County 4-H Fair Spotlight Sale.

During the annual livestock auction, roughly 120 other animals were sold by 4-H members.

The reserve grand champion steer, weighing 1,346 pounds and owned by 10-year 4-H member Isabel Scales, sold to a buyer group for $8,000. That was the highest priced animal in the Spotlight Sale.

The animals were sold for a single price, instead of by the pound. Nearly every Spotlight Sale purchase was made by a group of buyers.

Gavin Young, another 10-year 4-H member, took home $3,600 with his grand champion county born and bred heifer, weighing 1,214 pounds.

Tobias Clauson’s grand champion pair of crossbred barrows sold for $2,550.

Everett Ott’s reserve grand champion market lambs, which led the Spotlight Sale, sold for $2,400.

Grant Clark’s reserve grand champion market wether sold for $1,700.

Hayley Bright’s grand champion single fryer rabbit sold for $1,400.

Quinnley Zent’s reserve grand champion pair of barrows sold for $1,300.

Colton Baker’s grand champion rabbit meat pen sold for $1,100.

Emily Vigar’s dairy products, representing the grand champion dairy cow, sold for $800. Colton Jones’s dairy products for the reserve grand champion sold for $500.

Ava Helt’s grand champion market dairy goat sold for $750.

Kinzlee Kelly’s grand champion pair of ducks sold for $400, and Jessica Taylor’s grand champion egg basket brought $300.

A kiss from Miss Fulton County Chesnee Miller sold for $300 and was planted on a heifer owned by Ellison Burton. A fundraising competition among livestock buildings determined the animal she would kiss, with the beef barn raising the most money.

Additionally, $1,900 was raised for livestock building improvements by the auction of a donated John Deere pedal fire truck.

Lastly, and still a highlight of the Spotlight Sale, a basket of cookies from the Fulton County Extension Homemakers’ brought $1,750. The buyers were Bill and Stephenia Barkman-Adams.