More Marion County residents are showing their skills at the Iowa State Fair. Ed Ricks, of Knoxville, won the general category of the Weed Identification contest. Stevenson Farms of Knoxville took victories in six different categories in the beef feeder calf show. Trenton McDonald, of Hamilton, was the youth category champion at the Iowa Farm Bureau Cookout Contest. A steer raised by Jenna Kauzlarich of Knoxville was auctioned off at the Governor’s Charity Steer Show.

Other local State Fair winners are Brenda Becker from Pella who took the top prize in both the Christmas Cookie Plate, and the My Tractor Cake competitions. In the Best of the Wurst Summer Sausage class, In’t Veld Meat Market of Pella won first place. Bailey Core of Pleasantville won Champion Summer Heifer and Grand Champion Female. The Blueprint Cattle Company of Otley won Reserve Champion Summer Heifer, Reserve Grand Champion Female, Champion Spring Yearling Heifer, Iowa Champion Female, Reserve Champion Junior Bull Calf, and Reserve Grand Champion Bull.