The Missouri State Fair Barrows, Market Lambs, and Bacon Grand Champions and Reserve Grand Champion exhibitors have been announced.

Wyatt Copenhaver, of Lexington, is the exhibitor of the 2022 Grand Champion Barrow at the Missouri State Fair. Copenhaver’s prize-winning barrow weighs 273 pounds. The Reserve Grand Champion Barrow honor went to Connor Keithley, of Chillicothe. Keithley’s barrow weighs 264 pounds.

Preslie Strader, of Salem, is the exhibitor of the 2022 Grand Champion market lamb at the Missouri State Fair. Strader’s prize-winning market lamb weighed 147 pounds. Payton Rodgers, of Savannah, was selected as the Reserve Grand Champion. Rodgers’ market lamb weighed 126 pounds.

Grant Owen, of Carrollton, is the exhibitor of the 2022 Grand Champion Bacon at the Missouri State Fair. Owen‘s prize-winning bacon weighed 9.16 pounds. The Reserve Grand Champion honor went to Summer Wagoner, of Harrisville. Wagoner’s bacon weighed 7.82 pounds.

All of the Champions and Reserve Grand Champions are scheduled to sell their market lambs, barrows, and bacon in the Missouri State Fair Sale of Champions on Saturday, August 20. Proceeds from the annual sale benefit both the winning exhibitors and the Missouri State Fair Youth in Agriculture (YIA) Scholarship Program, administered by the Missouri State Fair Foundation.

Many livestock exhibitors will work toward earning a place in the ring at the time-honored Sale of Champions Auction. Grand Champion and Reserve Grand Champion Steers, Barrows, Lambs, Meat Goats, Pens of Chickens and Pens of Rabbits will be featured in the auction, along with the Grand and Reserve Grand Champion Hams and Bacon. The Sale will be held at 1:30 p.m., Saturday, August 20, in the Lowell Mohler Assembly Hall. The entire auction will be broadcast live on kmmo.com.