Pulaski Community Rallies for Youths
Published: Friday, July 11, 2025
This year's Pulaski County 4-H auction brought in a grand total of $72,650 for 115 lots, over $3,000 more than last year's total of $69,325 in bids. The auction was held last Wednesday at the fairgrounds in Winamac.
Lillian Doty of Kewanna kicked off the auction with her 263-pound grand champion barrow, receiving a hefty premium of $2,800 ($10.65 per pound) from a large group of buyers: Nutrien-Fulton, Craig Welding and Manufacturing Inc., Royal Center Ag. LLC, V&M Construction, Wallace Performance Solutions, Jeff and Tammy Brandt and family, Schaeffer Oil, Heiny Farms, Haselby family, Dewayne and Deb Doty and family, and First Farmers Bank & Trust.
Macy Mullaney showed the reserve champion barrow, but did not sell. The grand champion gilt was exhibited by Parker Zeider of Star City, and the reserve champion gilt was shown by Kayden Hilton of Winamac. Neither of the gilts sold in the auction.
The subtotals of each division are as follows: seven market lambs, $4,700; one breeding ewe, $550; eight meat goats, $3,200; five dairy goats, $1,650; seven steers, $8,100; one heifer, $700; 24 poultry, $6,150; five meat class, $2,600; 17 swine gilts, $11,350; 37 swine barrows, $32,150; two 4-H achievement royalty prize baskets, $1,050; 1 Miss Pulaski County prize bag, $450.
Overall, entries in the swine division received high premiums as compared to the other divisions, some of them bringing in upwards of $1,000 or even $2,000 each. Several of those who showed walked out of the ring with huge smiles.
Austin Attinger of Winamac showed the grand champion steer, but did not sell. Doty placed again with the reserve grand champion beef starter heifer, but did not sell.
Lucas Fagner of Winamac exhibited two animals with distinctions: the grand champion beef starter heifer and the reserve champion steer. He sold the 1,369-pound reserve champion steer in the auction, receiving a premium of 73 cents per pound ($1,000) from Miller Beef and Garland Farms.
Pulaski County's auction this year was a premium auction, so all animals were kept by the owner unless private arrangements were made with the buyer.
Siblings Kayden and Cameron Hilton of Winamac showed the grand champion starter steer and the reserve champion starter steer, respectively. Neither steer sold in the auction.
In the dairy cow division, Savannah Hoover-Enyeart of Star City showed the grand champion dairy heifer. She did not sell in the auction. Neither was the reserve champion dairy heifer sold in the auction, but was exhibited in its division by Sophia Watwood of Monterey.
Carter Keller of Star City boasted three distinctions: the grand champion dairy finished steer, the reserve champion dairy finished steer, and the reserve champion starter calf. None of the three were shown in the auction.
Watwood exhibited twice in the goat division, receiving a premium of $300 from CSF Winamac for the reserve champion dairy wether. She exhibited the reserve champion meat wether, but did not sell. Her brother, Christopher Watwood, received a premium of $300 for the grand champion dairy wether from Keller Insurance and Consulting Group.
The grand champion meat wether was shown by Levi Sanson of Kewanna. He earned a premium of $400 from CSF Winamac. Colt Ringen placed both the grand and reserve champion pygmy wether, but did not sell either in the auction.
Libby Reames exhibited the grand champion pygmy doe, but did not sell. Lilly Button of Star City exhibited the reserve champion pygmy doe, which also did not sell. Button did participate in the auction, though, with a basket of items representing her grand champion dairy doe, walking away with a premium of $350 from Rife Farm Supplies. The reserve champion dairy doe was shown by Adrionna Webster and did not sell.
Casey Lynch of Francesville received a premium of $400 from Praireland Farms for the grand champion meat market doe. The grand and reserve champion meat does were shown by Lyndie Middaugh of Winamac and Leah Mitchell of Winamac, respectively. Mitchell exhibited the reserve champion meat doe in the auction, bringing in a premium of $400 from Olson Auctions.
Three champions were shown in the horse division: the grand champion English mare by Adrionna Webster, the reserve champion English mare by Reese Martin, and the grand champion English pony mare by Harper Howe. None of the horses sold in the auction.
The Bonnell siblings of Star City, Kinzie and Brody, both placed twice in the 4-H shows. Kinzie Bonnell proudly walked away with a $900 ($6.47 per pound) premium for the 139-pound grand champion market lamb, bought by her grandfather, Tom Kasten. Brody Bonell showed the reserve champion ewe, but did not sell. In the auction, he sold the reserve champion turkey for a premium of $600 to CSF Winamac, and Kinzie sold the grand champion turkey for $500 to Bonell Farms LLC.
Kaiden Gutwein exhibited the grand champion ewe and reserve champion market lamb, but did not sell in the auction.
Roni Garbison of Star City showed the grand champion duck, receiving a premium of $250 from Leonard Farm.
In the rabbit division, Jocelyn Hileman of Winamac proudly showed two grand champions: the grand champion rabbit meat pen and the grand champion single fryer. She sold the grand champion rabbit pen for a premium of $500 to Dan and Missy Culp of Praireland Partners. She did not sell the grand champion single fryer.
Rylan Toro of Monterey exhibited the reserve champion single fryer, selling for a premium of $750 to a large group of buyers: J&L Smith Trucking, Katie Reiff and Emmerson, Steve and Judy Colen, Luhnow Farms, S and B Kessler, Mike and Ann Bromely, and Plymouth Furniture and Mattress.
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