Normal West FFA goes back-to-back as National Livestock Judging Champions

Posted on November 8, 2021
Paige Lemenager, Preston Rhode and Lauren Mohr. (Facebook/Earlybird)

By RFD Radio

NORMAL – It’s been quite the run for the Normal West FFA Livestock Judging Team.

They’ve gone back-to-back years winning the prestigious American Royal in Kansas City. Lauren Mohr is a team member.

“A lot of us have grown up around livestock and high quality livestock so we kind of get that background from there and going to national shows and hearing judges talk about the classes there,” said Mohr. “We’ve also looked at a lot of classes online and have used livestockjudging.com to kind of help us as well. But also our judging coaches sit in and listen to us give reasons.”

Mohr currently serves as the Illinois FFA Reporter. Preston Rhode and Paige Lemenager are also on the team.

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