CONTEST ANNOUNCER DON HUMMEL: This is Iowa State Fair
Big Ram Contest. We have six entries this year. They'll bring them out one at a time,
take them over and weigh them, bring them back and stand them up here, and then announce our winners.
First, we need Ben Heckart with his Corriedale.
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282 pounds.
All right. Next up, we need Thiesen Columbias with their Columbia ram.
218 pounds.
All right. I need Mona Baker and her Suffolk, please.
Mona Baker’s 4-year-old Suffolk ram weighs 413 pounds.
Now we need Jason Seelow’s Rambouillet. Jason's 4-year-old ram weighed 295 pounds.
Next up we have Abby Willson. Abby's ram weighs 428 pounds. Abby is from Shell Rock, Iowa.
Our last ram is a Suffolk ram from Fisher Farms,
out of Mercer, Missouri. All right. Fisher Farms, 6-year-old Suffolk ram, 456.5 pounds.
Our champion biggest ram this year at the Iowa State Fair
2022 will be Fisher Farm's 6-year-old ram at 456 pounds.
He's tall, he has a lot of frame to him. He's older which helps him to weigh more.
If you're serious about winning this contest, you about have to
keep a ram around just for the contest and not let him do a lot of breeding because
when a ram is breeding, he's chasing yews and not eating a lot and he'll lose a lot of weight.
JIM FISHER: A little bit at a time. Just like anything, too much of something is not
always good. You got to take your time, go easy with them, maintain their feed,
have the right ration, keep them comfortable. A lot of things could still go wrong.
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CONTEST ANNOUNCER: Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. We'd like to welcome you to the 2022
World's Biggest Boar Contest at the Iowa State Fair. This boar is Purdy Boy.
He’s named after Iowa State quarterback Brock Purdy
who wanted to be here today but couldn't miss practice with the San Francisco 49ers.
He's a Chester White, 6 years old and he’s never been shown before. 1,156 pounds.
Our next entry is Pee-Wee. This boar is a Hereford boar exhibited by Marv Rietema and
Owen Sandbulte from Sioux Center. For the last two years these gentlemen have exhibited the reserve
champion boar. If he doesn't like what they're feeding him, he gets upset and dumps his feed pan.
1,300 pounds.
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That is 35 pounds short of a record.
ERNIE BARNES: I really think it got down to feed cost. Feed is extremely high right now. These
boars will eat 25 to 30 pounds of feed a day. You do that for 100 days, that's quite a bit of money.
MARV RIETEMA: He likes milk and doughnuts.
Long John supreme filler is his favorite. I got a friend with a dairy. He has hospital milk
and so we gave him jersey. He likes jersey because of high butter fat.
JOHN PUTNEY: Good evening, everybody. I'm John Putney. Welcome to the 2022 Super Bowl Contest.
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Here comes Big John. Big John weighs 2,488 pounds.
He's 3-year-old Charolais bull. He was born and raised on their farm in New Virginia.
His name is Mean Gene. Mean Gene weighs 2,728 pounds.
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And the bull's name is Albert. Albert was born at Dreher Angus Farms in the spring of 2017.
Albert for Audubon weighs 3,042 pounds.
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