Stookey, Egolf Show Holstein Winners
Published: Friday, June 18, 2021
Holstein exhibitors from Leesburg, Elkhart and Churubusco were among the big winners at the Indiana State Holstein Show last week in LaPorte.
For the second year in a row, Stookeyholm Holsteins of Leesburg showed the grand champion Holstein in the open show. The senior 3-year-old cow first won the intermediate title and selected as the best bred and owned cow.
Jeff Stookey, owner of the winning cow, was all smiles after taking the purple banner in last Saturday's show.
"It's pretty nice, pretty nice," he said. "It makes you want to go to the barn again tomorrow."
Last year, Stookey was at the halter in the championship drive, just a few months after undergoing open heart surgery. This year, he and wife Marla chose to be spectators as Keith Topp of Botkins, Ohio had the honor of showing their prize-winning cow. Ironically, the cow's name is "Have a Heart."
Standing second in the open show was the reserve immediate cow owned by Chad Egolf of Churubsco and Tim Cummings of Sidney, Ohio. The cow placed first in the junior 3-year-old class.
Lookwell Farm of Elkhart was named premier exhibitor and shared premier breeder honors with Bob Osborn. Among their placings, the farm had reserve senior champion and honorable mention senior champion.
Parker Hardy of Tipton, Mich. won honorable mention grand champion with his senior champion Holstein, placing behind Stookeyholm and Egolf/Cummings.
Both the junior champion and reserve junior champion were exhibited by Eli and Isaac Horswil and Maplebranch Farms. Wicker Farms brought the honorable mention in the junior division.
Class winners were:
• 150,000 pounds—Riley Koehn
• Aged Cow—Lookwell Farm and Brent Moyer
• Five-year-old—Parker Hardy
• Four-Year-old—Lookwell Farm
• Intermediate—Stookeyholm, honorable mention
• Senior 2-year-old—Stookeyholm
• Junior 2-year-old—Stookeyholm
• Fall yearling—Stookeyholm
• Winter yearling—Wicker Farms
• Spring yearling—Stookeyholm
• Summer yearling—Eli and Isaac Horswil/Maplebranch Farms
• Fall heifer calf—Eli and Isaac Horswil/Maplebranch Farms
• Winter heifer calf—Wicker Farms
• Spring heifer calf —Stookeyholm
In the Red and White Show, the grand champion was the senior champion exhibited by Lookwell Farm and Bob Osborn. The reserve senior cow and reserve grand champion was shown by Morgan, Amelia, Taylor and Marshall Stone, all of Greenfield, Ind.
Stookeyholm exhibited the junior champion; Bryce Birk of St. Joseph County (Ind.) showed the reserve. Engleking Holsteins earned honorable mention honors.
Other Red and White winners were:
• Aged cows—Lookwell Farm and Bob Osborn
• Four-year-old—Stones
• Senior 2-year-old—Ayden Tusing
• Junior 2-year-old—Ally Sickafoose
• Fall yearling—William Dillman
• Winter yearling—Ethan Beam
• Spring yearling—Stookeyholm
• Summer yearling—Engleking Holsteins
• Fall heifer calf—Darlene Moser
• Winter heifer calf—Bryce Birk
In last Thursday's junior Holstein show, Caroline Egolf, daughter of Chad and Jamie Egolf of Churubusco, captured grand champion honors with the champion intermediate Holstein and first place junior 3-year-old. It was also the same cow that earned runner-up honors in the open show.
"It's a cow that my dad and his best friend bought together," said Egolf, who is an eight-year 4-H'er in Whitley County. "I showed her because I work with her every day."
She said the cow, named Princess, resides in a box stall at their 120-cow dairy and gets pampered quite a bit.
"She gets a bath every day," the 16-year-old said. "We change her bedding twice a day. She gets to go out on pasture at night, so it's nice and cool for her. Pretty spoiled."
Placing second in last Thursday's junior show was the senior champion Holstein and first place 4-year-old owned by Morgan, Amelia, Taylor and Marshall Stone. Dalton Freeman of Bremen took honorable mention with the reserve intermediate champion and champion senior 3-year-old.
In addition to his honorable mention showing in the grand drive, Freeman also had the reserve senior champion and champion 5-year-old as well as the champion aged cow and honorable mention in the senior division.
Kyla and Ally Sickafoose brought the junior champion and first-place fall yearling, and Nicholas Neuman had the reserve with the first-place winter yearling.
Other junior show winners included:
• Intermediate honorable mention—Morgan, Amelia, Taylor and Marshall Stone
• Senior 2-year-old—Caroline Egolf
• Honorable mention junior champion—Ayden Tusing
• Spring yearling—Kayla Godwin
• Summer yearling—Caroline Egolf
• Fall heifer calf—Caitlin Cox
• Winter heifer calf—Kyla and Ally Sickafoose
• Spring heifer calf—Maggie Wicker
In the junior Red and White show, the grand champion was the first-place 4-year-old exhibited by Morgan, Amelia, Taylor and Marshall Stone. Dalton Freeman had the reserve grand champion and first-place aged cow, and Clayton Egolf earned honorable mention honors with the second-place aged cow.
Cassie Gebert of Wawaka exhibited the junior champion and first-place winter heifer calf, and Dalton Freeman showed the reserve junior champion and first-place spring yearling. Honorable mention went to Karli Miller of Kokomo and her first-place fall heifer calf.
Other winners in the junior Red and White show were:
• Senior 2-year-old—Nicholas Neuman
• Junior 2-year-old—Kyla and Ally Sickafoose
• Winter yearling—Mackenzie Kesler, Churubusco
• Summer yearling—Caitlin Cox
• Spring heifer calf—Dalton Freeman
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