DeWitt County 4-H Livestock Judging Project

05/22/2026

Tonight we had the first annual Dewitt county livestock judging banquet where we honored past coaches Jennifer Kelley and Holly Hartman and now retiring Stacy Finney as well as Anthony Netardus and Greg Gossett for their support and. Dedication. We took time to celebrate this past years accomplishments and and those of the past two years. We are so blessed to have a dedicated group of judgers.

05/04/2026

Yesterday the DeWitt County Livestock Judging Team took 10 members to the District 11 Judging Contest and we had a successful day. Junior members included Lori Roper, Emma Luddeke, Kaylee Fisher, Austyn Baros and Charlotte Doehrman - the junior team was 5th place team, Charlotte was 1st in beef, 10th in sheep/goats, and 9th in hogs and 3rd high point individual, Kaylee was 7th in hogs, Emma was 10th in beef

Intermediate team consisted of Jase Baros, Zoe Doehrman, Taylor Beebe- team was 3rd place and Jase was 6th high point individual, 9th in beef, 8th in sheep, 10th in reasons, 7th in hogs, Taylor was 4th in beef and 18th in reasons, Zoe was 9th in swine, 5th in reasons, 7th in beef and 7th high point individual

Seniors only had two but they rocked it
Carly Metting was 3rd high over all qualifying for state - she was 7th in beef, 3rd in sheep/goats, 3rd in reasons, 7th in swine

Jana was 7th high point, 5th in sheep and goats, 8th in reasons,

I am beyond proud of this group 5 of the this was their first year to judge 4 of the group have only been judging 2 years and 1 has been judging for 6 so they have worked very hard to place

05/04/2026

First we want to share how excited that all of our high school senior team members Wyatt Luddeke, Sawyer Parker, and Percy Torres signed with Blinn College on Friday as members of their incoming freshman livestock judging team. We are beyond proud of all of you and expect that we will be hearing great things. In the past several years DeWitt County has been proud to watch our kids judge as a Blinn Buc.

11/19/2025

News from Louisville and NAILE - we had a great run and we have been on the road for the past 7 days.

Wyatt Luddeke Percy Torrez Sawyer Parker and Jackie Finney competed yesterday at the National 4H Judging Contest.

We have many people to thank

Prairie Veiw Angus Farms
Hummel Livestock
Wehmer Show Pigs
Real McCoy Genetics and Malcom
Steele Goats
Forsees Southdown Sheep
Double F Show Lambs

The workouts were amazing.

We left Louisville as the 6th Place Team in the Nation and High Point Reasons Team with Percy Torrez 2nd in Reasons, Sawye Parker 5th and Wyatt Luddeke 7th. Wyatt, and Percy both had two shout outs for high reasons sets and Sawyer one set. The team took 5th in Sheep.

And Wyatt and Sawyer were just out of the top 20. All in all not bad for an almost all high school team.

Thanks for all of your support along the way we couldn’t have done it without you.

10/26/2025

Another good day at Aggiefest. Senior team took top honors consisting of Wyatt Luddeke, Sawyer Parker, Percy Torrez and Carly Metting. Sawyer was 4th high point individual. Also Kaylee Jo Fisher took 4th in the Junior sheep and goats. Super proud of all who went today.

10/25/2025

Went to Guadalupe County livestock judging contest and Mr. Real and his team did not disappoint as always a great contest. Seniors were first place team with Sawyer Parker and Wyatt Luddeke taking second and third place individual. Also shout out to Taylor Beebe for 12 place individual in the juniors. Today was the personal best for many of the juniors and we are so proud.

10/05/2025

Yesterday was a good day at Fort Bend County Livestock Judging
Wyatt Luddeke was High Point Senior and the senior team of Wyatt, Carly, and Jana were 5th high team and the juniors were 9th high team

09/21/2025

09/21/2025

09/21/2025

The DeWitt County Livestock Judging group was busy today having camp. We worked hard learning all about livestock evaluation and getting our hands wet at reasons. So grateful for these new kids who have entered my life.