(La Porte County, IN) - A farm girl has proved herself no stranger to winning for showing animals during the La Porte County Fair.

 

Mary Minich, a 14-year-old South Central School student, has a heifer that took first place at the fair this week in the Holstein winter senior calf division.

 

Minich said she believes the structure of her calf’s body and it being larger than other calves in her category were among the factors that worked in her favor during judging. 

 

“She carries herself pretty well."

 

Minich noted that her calf’s mother has been named a Grand Champion twice in the past, with her family's history in the dairy business since 1909. She and her five siblings, combined, showed off 15 cows during the fair this week.

 

Minich then remarked on how showing a cow is a lot of fun and about the pay-off for the effort put in training the animal to do well in show.

 

“Training all of them, it’s a lot of work. It’s a lot of work that goes into it,” she said.

 

She said the over 1,000 dairy cows on the family’s farm are milked three times a day.