State livestock show legacy spans generations

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Lauren Clardy of Elmore County exhibited the Junior Fourth Overall at the Jr. Livestock Expo Dairy Show held on March 9 in Montgomery. Her animal was also the Jersey Junior Breed Reserve Champion. She is pictured with Judge Ross Neles, left, and Dairy Show Director Colton Christjohn.

Jeremy Childers’ gaze followed his daughter, Callie Rae, as she led her Commercial Division champion heifer in the final drive of the Jr. Livestock Expo Beef Show in Montgomery.

That last lap around the ring was the culmination of months of work and decades of tradition for the Morgan County farm family.