Colquitt County FFA member Victoria Barber, right, won the Grand Champion Market Lamb Award with her Suffolk/Hampshire cross during the 2017 State 4-H & FFA Market Lamb Show held Oct.  8 in Perry at the Georgia National Fair. From left, Georgia Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture Executive Director Katie Gazda presented the prize check and show judge Dr. Billy Zanolini presented the grand championship banner.

MACON, Ga.  – Colquitt County FFA member Victoria Barber won the Grand Champion Market Lamb Award at the 2017 State 4-H & FFA Market Lamb Show, held Oct. 8 in Perry at the Georgia National Fair. The show was one of several livestock competitions held during the 11-day fair.

The Georgia Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture sponsored the $1,000 grand prize presented to Barber.

“The Georgia Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture sponsors the grand champion prizes for the state 4-H and FFA livestock shows because the students who participate in these events are going to be Georgia’s future ag leaders,” GFB President Gerald Long said. “Showing livestock teaches young people to be responsible and to get back up when things don’t go the way they wanted them to in the show ring.”

Barber, the daughter of Cecil and Celina Barber of Moultrie, is a junior at Colquitt County High School. She has been showing lambs for seven years.

 Founded in 1937, Georgia Farm Bureau is the largest general farm organization in the state.     

The GFB Foundation for Agriculture is a non-profit 501 (c) (3) corporation that funds activities and educational materials designed to increase the agricultural literacy of Georgia residents.