BS
Bailey Sherwin
  • Class of 2013
  • Ellsworth, WI

Bailey Sherwin Competes at National Collegiate Meat Animal Evaluation Competition

2012 Mar 26

Ten University of Wisconsin-River Falls students participated in the 2012 National Collegiate Meat Animal Evaluation Competition hosted by the University of Nebraska–Lincoln March 14-16. Sixty-two contestants from eight universities took part in the 2012 event.

Members of the UWRF team included Bailey Sherwin of Ellsworth, WI.

The UWRF team received the title of Champion in the Market Animal Division competition. In addition, the team finished third in the Sheep Evaluation competition, fourth in the Swine Evaluation contest, and finished fifth overall. Individually, Dailey was first in the Market Animal Division; Colle placed fourth in both the Market Animal Division and Swine Evaluation; Colle also took seventh place in Sheep Evaluation and seventh overall; Dailey took eighth place in Sheep Evaluation; Jaborek finished sixth in the Market Animal Division and Brandt of Lakefield took eighth in the Market Animal Division.

The team was coached by assistant professor of Animal Science Justin Luther.

The competition dates back to 1955 when the National Livestock and Meat Board in Chicago sponsored a clinic for animal science students; by the mid-1960s the clinics evolved into an intercollegiate competition. The competition includes four separate components for each of three species (beef, sheep, swine): the evaluation of market animals, breeding livestock, meats or carcasses, and a communications challenge where teams are given a set amount of time to prepare a presentation on a topic relevant to animal agriculture.