Jensen Youth Ranch hosts livestock judging clinic

What part of a steer's body is going to carry the most muscle? How do you find the volume of a pig?

These were some of the questions several members from the West Plains Rangers and Reardan 4-H clubs answered at the Livestock Fit and Show Judging Clinic at the Jensen Memorial Youth Ranch in Medical Lake, April 8. The clinic, sponsored by Washington State University 4H Youth Development program, gave students some basic knowledge in judging market pigs, steer and sheep.

All of the livestock used in the clinic were project animals that 4H club members and students from local Future Farmers of Am...