SDSU Youth Livestock Judging Camp
Camp 1: June 4-6, 2025
Camp 2: June 8-10, 2025
The SDSU Youth Livestock Judging Camp instruction will cover live evaluation of the primary livestock species (cattle, sheep/goats and swine), as well as preparation and critique of oral reasons. The camp will be led by Tommy Norman and members of the nationally competitive SDSU Livestock Judging team, which produced the Reserve National Champion Team in 2021 and the National Champion Livestock Judging Contestant in 2020. Camp attendees from 2021 went on to win at five state contests! Many teaching methods apply to this experience including lecture, demonstration, hands-on experience, one-on-one coaching and critiquing, along with question and answer sessions. Each participant will prepare and present several sets of oral reasons.
- One-on-one coaching from SDSU鈥檚 nationally competitive team
- Instruction from SDSU coach Tommy Norman
- Judge multiple live classes of multiple species
- Experience SDSU鈥檚 state-of-the-art livestock units
- Gain an onsite experience of SDSU campus and residence hall life
Age requirement to attend this year's camp: Must be 11 to 18 years old by Jan. 1, 2024.
- 2-3 p.m. Check-in
- 3-3:30 p.m. Welcome
- 3:30-6 p.m. Beef cattle judging
- 6-6:30 p.m. Supper
- 6:30-9:30 p.m. Beef cattle reasons
- 10:30 p.m. Lights out
- 8 a.m. Breakfast
- 8:30 a.m.-noon Swine judging
- Noon-12:30 p.m. Lunch
- 12:30-3 p.m. Sheep judging
- 3-4 p.m. Campus tour
- 4-6 p.m. Reasons
- 6-6:30 p.m. Supper
- 6:30-7 p.m. Use of performance data in livestock judging contests
- 7-8:30 p.m. Reasons practice
- 8:30-10 p.m. Activity
- 10:30 p.m. Lights out
- 8 a.m. Breakfast
- 8:30 a.m.-noon Contest
- noon Lunch and awards recognition
- 12:30-1 p.m. Camp ends! Safe travels
Registration
Registration will open soon for 2025.
