Third-generation livestock judge
BY GINGER SECRIST MYERS bears the inscription “York County
Staff Correspondent Livestock Team 1956 - Dale
PLEASANT HILL —On a corner Werner.”
wall of Dale Werner’s dining room That plaque represents Dale
hangs a small plaque measuring Werner’s 4-H livestock judging
only six inches by four inches. It expertise under the direction of his
I. poses with some of the
awards she has won while judging on the Penn State
Livestock Team. Brenda competed at Eastern States Ex
position, the Keystone Exposition, the Eastern National.
Kansas City, and in Louisville where she captured National
Champion honors.
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father who was the county 4-H
leader for livestock at that tune.
Warner won a trip to the National
Livestock Judging Contest held in
Chicago that same year.
Across the room is a span of wall
that is virtually plastered with
plaques and awards. Spilling over
into the next room is a collection of
sterling silver bowls, two watches,
ribbons, show canes, and even a
$75 western hat. All of these are
livestock judging awards and they
all belong to Dale’s daughter,
Brenda. Last November Brenda
won top individual national honors
at the National Intercollegiate
Livestock Judging Contest in
Louisville, Ky.
Brenda, a senior this year at
Penn State majoring in animal
production, out scored 205 con
testants from 41 teams to become
the first Penn State student to
ever win the title. The team, under
the direction of head coach Er
skme Cash and assistant coach
Daniel Loy, placed fourth
nationally by ranking first in
judging sheep, third in beef cattle,
and fifth in swine. The team in
cluded Mary Street of New
Loudon, Dale Rains of Mercer,
Robert Hough of Alexandria, and
Lee Johnston of New Alexandria
Winning a national title or even a
spot on Penn State’s livestock
team is no easy task.
Explained Brenda “Of the first
two weeks of school, I think I got to
three days of classes. There were
15 of us trying to win one of the five
spots on the team.
“We judged a lot in Ohio and
New York on our way to Eastern
States After that, we judged
almost every night after school to
prepare for our other contests
“Sometimes it seems that your
studies have to take a back seat,
but you want to give the team your
best because it is a once in a
lifetime experience ”
Evidently Brenda’s studies
never suffered smce she presently
carries a 3 5 grade point average
out of a possible 4.0
Brenda is no stranger to the hard
work that goes with becoming a
good judge. Having grown up in
York county on her father’s
Yorkshire hog farm, Brenda was
active in the 4-H livestock
program.
In 1977 she was a member of
York County’s winning meats
judging team at 4-H State Days.
That same team traveled to
Kansas City where they placed
first in the nation that year
In 1978 she was a member of her
county livestock judging team
which captured the blue nbbon at
State Days competition and went
on to place third in national
competition in Louisville, Ky.
Brenda has found judging
livestock beneficial to her
education. It also has its lighter
side.
“The experience of being on the
team and having the opportunity to
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travel was great In judging you
have to master communicative
skills, be highly knowledgable
about each species, and it teaches
you about decision-making It’s
pretty competitive, but I’ve made
a lot of new friends through my
judging experiences ”
While livestock judging requires
the contestants to judge different
species of animals, Brenda ob
serves that basically a judge looks
for the same components in each
These include “structural
correctness, capacity, and
volume ” However Brenda said
she sees some patterns emerging
within the species
“Sheep are pretty conservative
and haven’t changed their con
formation much The beef people
changed what they wanted about
ten years ago and I think they’re
pretty content now But the hog
industry has done a lot of radical
changing in the last two years
“With more confinement
housing in the hog industry,
they’re looking for hogs that are
more three-dimensional rather
than just long and lean The hog
industry is looking for a hog with
more substance of bone to stand on
slatted floors and more body
capacity with the hope that they
will be more disease-resistant. I
use terms to describe width in my
oral reasons for swine now that we
would have laughed at when I was
judging in 4-H ”
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