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Fort Worth Stock Show A Success for Como-Pickton FFA

The first weekend of the Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo saw success for the Como-Pickton FFA. Caden Anglin won the winter yearling class  in the Junior Brown Swiss Dairy Show with Berretta, a Brown Swiss heifer bred by Overstreet Farms of Chillicothe, Texas. This was Caden’s first time participating in a stock show.

caden at Ft Worth

Caden Anglin

Como-Pickton FFA also saw success in the Agricultural Mechanics show. FFA students exhibited 4 projects: a decorative gate, a cattle trim chute, a 24ft gooseneck lowboy trailer and a cattle squeeze chute, earning three blue ribbons and one red ribbon. The cattle squeeze chute won cattle handling equipment class and was named Livestock Equipment Division Champion. The chute received a $1650 cash prize, a $1000 certificate from Big Tex Trailers, three welding machines, a metal cut saw, Victor cutting torch rig and an auto darkening welding hood.

Chute and Prizes

Tyler Osborne, Denton Lawson, Heston Wilburn and Robert Flewelling

Featured Image (L-R): Steven Grimaldi, Osvaldo Gutierrez, Robert Flewelling, Brynden Andrews, Jayden Stubbs, Tyler Osborne, Heston Wilburn, and Denton Lawson.

Author: Staff Reporter

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