The Nueces County Junior Livestock Show<\/a> is celebrating its 90th year, highlighting decades of tradition while continuing to introduce young generations in the Coastal Bend to careers and opportunities in agriculture.<\/p>\nThe annual event features student competitions and exhibits across multiple categories, including poultry, swine, homemaking, lambs, goats and more.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s milestone anniversary also includes a behind-the-scenes look at how the show has evolved since its beginnings in 1936.<\/p>\n
Sarita Nelson, a Young Herdsman and Miss Top Interview, created an exhibit showcasing the history of the livestock show through photographs and records dating back to 1938.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt evolved from starting off with cattle, then it went on to swine, then I believe it went on to like sheep, then goats,\u201d Nelson said.<\/p>\n
Nelson said she drew inspiration from the Rio Grande Valley Junior Livestock Show while designing her display.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery year, I always go to that show and I always see the museum. It\u2019s always filled with the past queens dresses, a little bull ride, and then there\u2019s games for like the younger members, and then there\u2019s pictures and all the actual history that goes into the making,\u201d Nelson said.<\/p>\n
Her exhibit also features a list of past livestock show queens representing Nueces County.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom 1964,” Nelson said. “Francis Whitley, representing Robstown 4-H.”<\/p>\n
Nearby, fellow Young Herdsman Avery Tomanec focused her exhibit on animal care and the tools needed to prepare livestock for competition.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have a bunch of tools that are used for each of these animals,\u201d Tomanec said.<\/p>\n
Tomanec said she is following in her father\u2019s footsteps by showing lambs and appreciates being part of a long-standing tradition.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s really nice to know that there is a history behind us, and we\u2019re not the first people doing it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Nelson said one of her goals is to inspire younger generations to take pride in being a part of the county.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are a tough county to beat. And everyone always goes, whenever you walk into Robstown, it is like, \u2018Oh that is Nueces County,\u2019\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The show continues throughout the week until Saturday, celebrating both its 90-year legacy and the next generation of agricultural leaders in the Coastal Bend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This year\u2019s milestone anniversary also includes a behind-the-scenes look at how the show has evolved since its beginnings…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":{"0":"post-123768","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-corpus-christi","8":"tag-corpus-christi","9":"tag-corpus-christi-headlines","10":"tag-corpus-christi-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}