State Fair 2019: Grundy Center FFA trio wins herdsmanship award

Ella Hommel, Lauren Mosher and Leah Mosher of the Grundy Center FFA organization left the Iowa State Fair with some impressive hardware last week, winning both individual honors and a group herdsmanship award at the Beef Show.
           
The herdsmanship award is a reflection of the Grundy Center FFA chapter as a whole, including their attitudes, treatment of others, decorations of their stalls (according to Hommel, Lauren gets the most credit for that), keeping bedding clean and dry, filling out stall tags and assessing Hohow well they take care of their animals—from scooping poop to keeping the aisles clean. The 2019 award marked their second consecutive herdsmanship honor.
           
“We’re showing off Grundy Center FFA, and when we do that, we want to do that to the best of our ability,” Lauren Mosher said. “By doing well in the herdsmanship, it shows that we have a good chapter, and we can represent the chapter.”
           
The Moshers attended and graduated from BCLUW but have been involved with the Grundy Center FFA chapter for many years, and Hommel is entering her junior year at Grundy Center High School. Lauren, who’s now at Iowa State studying Agricultural Communication, started showing in sixth grade, and she won two individual showmanship awards this year—one in breeding beef and one in performance beef—in addition to the group honor. Leah, who will be a college freshman at ISU this fall, started in fifth. Hommel is in her fifth year of showing and her second year at the State Fair, which was always a childhood dream of hers.
 
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