cHRISTMAS IN jULY?

Tennessee juniors traveled to Madison Wisconsin for the 2025 AJSA Junior National for “Oh What A Joy.” We had 13 juniors from all across the state that made the trek north; Bailey Ball, Eleanor Beck, Caylee and Cutter Cobble, Addison Ownby, Reagan Bostick, Gracie Giles, Abigail Henry, Andrew and Annie Meier, and Eli Mundy. While all our juniors and their families recover from the one if not two week trip, I will highlight a select few achievements.

Andrew Meier: Reserve Champion Senior Showman

Caylee Cobble: 9th Junior Public Speaking

Bailey Ball: 18th Junior Calvin Drake Genetic Evaluation Quiz

Reagan Bostick: 17th Intermediate Sales Talk

Walker Housley: outgoing 2024 AJSA President

For some of our families this was their FIRST AJSA so a huge congratulations and a very solemn goodbye to our families who’s juniors are aging out.

2025 tn bEEF AGRIBITION

Friday night our general membership meeting was held; we elected new board members and awarded our yearly awards.

Per usual we kicked off the evening with a junior meeting held at 5:00 (open to all juniors.) The food was catered by Jordan’s Catering and was delcious as usual. Blake Darnell our current president began the meeting part of the evening where we awarded our Pioneer Award: Jerry Ivie of Ivie & Sons Simmental. Seedstock Producer Sunset Oaks Simmentals, and Junior Herdsman Ethan Bartee. Our Junior Rookie of the Year will be announced during the 2025 TN 4H Beef Expo.

We heard updates from our sales manager Greg Burden with GB Marketing, Chris Ivie on ASA activities and our speaker for the evening was ASA’s new hire Dr. Jon DeClerk. We wrapped up the general membership meeting with elections/nominations for 3 open positions on the TSSA board. Elected for a term of 3 years are Thomas Mingle, Donald Jackson, and Madison Martin.

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