IOWA FOUNDATION HEIFER PROGRAM

2023 Winner Selected

Contributed by Norma Bolton for IBBC Heifer Project selection team

Red Angus shows. She participated in national Junior contests such as: livestock judging, photography, herdsman quiz, and ID contest and has encouraged others to do the same. She also entered the 2022 Skillathon Quiz at Iowa Beef Expo and placed second in the Jr Age Division.

Kali’s recommendations credit her with goals of striving for excellence, being a peer role model, team player and leader plus having an outstanding work ethic. She is planning to learn more about genetics, breeding, feeding, grazing practices, budgets and promotion of the beef industry. She is an excellent showman but her main goal and plan is to have a quality cow herd as a 4th generation in the cattle industry.

Kali Nickell, daughter of Kevin and Stefanie Nickell, of Gravity, Iowa has recently been announced as the 2023 recipient of the Iowa Foundation Heifer Award. As an award winner, she received three purebred Red Angus bred heifers which were purchased from Garth and Nancy Griffin’s Red Angus herd located at New Hampton, Iowa. The foundation heifers of the breed of the winner’s choice are awarded each year by Iowa Beef Breeds Council and Iowa Cattlemen’s Foundation. At the end of five years, Kali will be expected to repay $6,000 to help with funding to keep the program moving into the future. The program is in year thirteen and was developed to help youth establish purebred seedstock herds of their own.

Kali is a seventhgrade student at Bedford Community School in Bedford where she is currently involved in volleyball. She is in her 4th year as a member of the Washington Winners 4-H Club and was chosen to serve as this year’s historian. She has been involved in a number of community service projects. In addition, she is a member of the Iowa Junior Red Angus Association and the National Junior Red Angus Association. She shares her family’s love of the Red Angus breed and has shown not only at her local County Fair, but also at the Iowa State Fair, Iowa Beef Expo, Iowa Red Angus Field Days and National Junior

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She will be honored at the Iowa Red Angus Association Banquet to be held on Saturday, February 11th at 7:00 pm during the Iowa Beef Expo and at the IJBBA Year End Awards held at 4:30 pm on Friday, February 17, 2023 in the Pavilion at the Iowa State Fair Grounds. n Adam

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