Welcome to the Virginia 4-H Dairy Youth Program Homepage! The dairy youth program offers many opportunities for dairy youth and volunteer leaders to increase their dairy knowledge and skills in four general areas: dairy industry knowledge, dairy cattle judging, dairy cattle fitting and showing, and dairy industry promotion. The information on this website is provided to support and enhance educational programming for dairy youth in the Commonwealth.

Dairy Youth News & Notes

State 4-H/FFA Dairy Youth Field Day

High Junior 4-H Individual - Reasons & Overall: Davey Hardesty (Clarke-Frederick)
High Senior 4-H Individual - Reasons: Erin Henley (Goochland)
High Senior 4-H Individual - Overall: Matthew Liskey (Rockingham)
High FFA Individual - Reasons & Overall: Jessica Dean (Spotswood)

High Junior 4-H Team - Reasons: Rockingham (Rebecca Paulson, Timothy Paulson, Zach Seekford and Matthew Smith)
High Junior 4-H Team - Overall: Clarke-Frederick/Loudoun (Davey Hardesty, Kristel Myers, Logan Potts, and Taylor Stiles)
High Senior 4-H Team - Reasons: Augusta (Jordan Ambler, Lindsey Heizer, Hannah Sayre, and Katie Waldron)
High Senior 4-H Team - Overall: Rockingham (Jamie Burtner, Matthew Liskey, and Esther Smith)
High FFA Team - Reasons & Overall: Spotswood (Megan Berry, Jessica Dean, and Phillip Wood)

Complete results...

For more information about the dairy youth program in Virginia, contact:

David R. Winston
Extension Dairy Scientist, Youth
Department of Dairy Science (0315)
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA 24061
(540)231-5693; FAX: (540)231-5014
www.dasc.vt.edu/winston
E-mail: dwinston@vt.edu