Supreme Champion FFA Breeding Gilt at Iowa State Fair ...

Trudy Baxter, daughter of Kevin and Bobbi Baxter of Waukon who will be entering her senior year at Waukon High School this fall, showed the Supreme Champion FFA Breeding Gilt in the FFA Breeding Swine Show held at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines Thursday, August 7. According to the Iowa State Fair media department, Baxter’s “Cindy” was among the 253 Commercial Gilts exhibited by 198 individuals from 107 FFA chapters at the show, and she not only topped that large Commercial Gilt field but also bested an additional 235 Registered Gilts shown by 154 exhibitors from 91 FFA chapters to win Supreme Champion FFA Breeding Gilt honors.

In addition to her Supreme honor in the Breeding Gilt competition, Trudy also showed the Division 1 FFA Crossbred Barrow Champion and a class-winning Division 3 FFA Crossbred Barrow. Her brother, Wyatt, a 2024 graduate of Waukon High School, also exhibited the Champion Hereford FFA Breeding Gilt and a class-winning York FFA Breeding Gilt, and was also named Reserve Champion Senior Showman at the Iowa State Fair.

“We set goals years ago, and one of them was to win the Iowa State Fair,” Trudy shared of her Supreme Champion honoring. “I am very proud of what Wyatt and I have accomplished.”

Pictured in the middle of the photo above holding the Supreme Champion banner is Trudy Baxter, with the FFA Breeding Swine Show judge, Ben Moyer of Ohio, standing to her left. To her right, in order from right to left, are her brother, Wyatt Baxter, and her father and mother, Kevin and Bobbi Baxter, with all of them being further surrounded in the photo by family friends who assisted in the Baxter family’s preparation and support during their time at the Iowa State Fair. Photo credit to Empire Imagery.