News : Benton County teams win State Fair Livestock Judging event

Livestock Judging: These 8 from Benton Co. won team titles at State Fair.

Jon McQuilkin, Mitchell Hansen, Kaleb Kruse and Issac Wiley: Sr. Livestock Judging champs.

Gabe Hansen, Brock Ortner, Will Schmidt and (not pictured) Jacob Luedeking were Jr. judging champs.

4-H and FFA judging teams and individuals from across the state competed in the Youth Livestock Judging competition Sunday at the 2015 Iowa State Fair.

Teams from Benton County won both the Junior and Senior events; several area youth also won individual honors.

Complete results below:

TEAM - Junior

1) Benton 4-H (Gabe Hansen, Brock Ortner, Jacob Ludeking, Will Schmidt)

2) Bellevue Jr. (Nick Deppe, Logan Hueheke, Miranda Peters, Logan Grieble), Bellevue

3) Hancock Co. 4-H (Eric Goll, Ben Furst, Matt Barickman, Andrew Furst)

Team - Senior

1) Benton Co. 4-H (Kaleb Kruse, Jon McQuilkin, Issac Wiley, Mitchel Hansen)

2) Muscatine Gold (Tiffany Tomlin, Dalton Perdson, Alyssa Scholz, John Brooks)

3) Future Clones (Logan Sieren, Gavin Branderhorst, Lauren Sieren, Josie Branderhorst)

4) Davis Co. (Morgan Knapp, Baxter Knapp, Nick Prevo, Leremy Jackson)

5) Muscatine Purple (Justin Moeller, Cori Bates, Summer Neece, Sam Burmester)

INDIVIDUAL Junior

1) Gabe Hansen, Benton Co.

2) Eric Goll, Hancock Co.

3) Jacob Ludeking, Benton Co.

4) Nick Deppe, Bellevue

5) Julia Deppe, Davis

6) Jack Williamsen

7) Lexi Knapp, Davis Co.

8) Kacey Boyer, Dallas Co.

9) Andrew Furst, Hancock Co.

10) Brady Ortner, Benton Co.

Senior

1) Sam Burmeister, Muscatine

2) Collin Swanton, Gooselake

3) Tiffany Tomlin, Muscatine

4) Alyssa Scholz, Muscatine

5) Mitchel Hansen, Benton

6) Issac Wiley, Benton

7) Macy Groeoka, Wayne

8) Logan Sieren, Keota

9) Johathan McQuilkin, Benton

10) Kaleb Kruse, Benton