On the last day of the 2024 NC State Fair, the annual Sale of Champions Livestock Auction happens in the Jim Graham Building which is the culminating event of all the best youth food animals raised and shown at the North Carolina State Fair.  Two of the animals sold at the Sale of Champions were the Grand and Reserve turkey hens.  These 33 lb hens competed their way through 200 birds at the 2024 NC State Fair Youth Market Turkey Show to be top of the roost.

Thank you buyers of our 2024 Livestock Sale of Champions who purchased the North Carolina State Fair Youth Market Turkey Show Overall Grand and Reserve Champion Turkeys.

Grand Champion Turkey Buyers: Tally Farms, Farm Bureau, Farm Credit Association, & NC Soybean Assoc who purchased for $8,500 the hen that Annie Grace Manning of Nash County grew.

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Reserve Champion Turkey Buyers: NC Soybean Assoc and Farm Bureau, who purchased the hen that Valerie Poole of Franklin County raised for $6,500.

A portion of the more than $213,000 that the auction sale generated will go to a Scholarship Fund for participating youth.  This year several youth that have participated in poultry youth programs each received scholarships including Matthew Peluso, Craven County; Talton Correll, Rowan County; Tara Burnham, Wayne County;  Isaac Linton, Wayne County; and Lexie Hester, Alamance County.

Gratitude for all the supporters of the 2024 NC State Fair Sale of Champion and the Youth Market Turkey Show.  Supporters of the 2024 Youth Market Turkey Show included sponsors NC State University Prestage Department of Poultry Science and Farm Bureau of Wake County; Prestage Farms for their donation of poults, In-Kind judging team of Dr. Olivia Wedegaertner, Zoetis, and Dr. Don McIntyre, Adjunct Professor, Prestage Department of Poultry Science, NC State University Feed Milling Education Unit for their donation of poult pickup starter feed, Cheerwine for their donation of Cheerwine for YMTS participants, and Carolina Kettle for their support of Poultry Youth Programs.