At a glance
Thirty-three Alfred State students participated in the 2025 Showmanship Day held at the college farm. The contest featured dairy, beef, sheep, and goat competitions.
Thirty-three Alfred State students participated in the 2025 Showmanship Day held at the college farm. The contest featured dairy, beef, sheep, and goat competitions.
Most of the students that participated are part of the Small Ruminant Management or the Dairy Cattle Production One classes. Charles Susick II, ’18, and Christian Lewis judged the contests.
Mulligan Palmerton earned the master dairy showman honor to start the day while Henry Winters was the reserve master showman. Four dairy classes were shown and the first and second place finishers in each class returned to compete in the master finals. A total of twenty-six students competed in the dairy contest.
Alyssa West took the top spot in the beef showmanship competition. Alysa Williams finished as the reserve master showman.
After the completion of the dairy and beef competitions, the NY State Beef Producers of Region 4 presented free memberships to Palmerton, West, Wilson, Lexy Wilson, and Rhiana Jones. All five won their individual class in the dairy or beef competitions.
Thirteen students in three classes competed in the sheep showmanship contest. Taylor Tait took home the top honors as master showman while Patience Batterson took reserve honors.
Fourteen students battled in three classes in the goat competition. Alysa Williams took home master goat showman while Dean Jackson was the reserve master.
To conclude the day the four winners of their respective species returned to the ring to determine the Overall Grand Champion. Mulligan Palmerton (dairy) took home overall grand champion honors while Alysa Williams was reserve champion (goat).