Goldman competes at State Market Lamb Show in Perry

Taylor Goldman is pictured with one of her lambs at the State Market Lamb Show in Perry, Ga.

Taylor Goldman, a senior and FFA member at LCHS, recently traveled to Perry, Georgia to compete in the State Market Lamb Show. This event is held every year in conjunction with the Georgia National Fair. The State Market Lamb Show is very competitive and this year included 365 lambs shown by other 4-H and FFA exhibitors from around the state. This year's show was indeed exciting and intense. Taylor managed to receive first place in one of the weight classes during the show.

Plenty of hard work, training, and dedication are required to develop superior market lambs and Taylor did an outstanding job of doing just that. She has been showing her lambs for the past seven years and is one of the few exhibitors who breeds, raises and trains her own show lambs on the farm.

Taylor has competed in other market lamb and breeding ewe shows in the state. These shows include the Atlantic Coast Classic in Sylvania, the Farm Credit Market Lamb Show and the Georgia Club Lamb Producers Association Show in Perry, the Block & Bridle Market Lamb Show in Athens, and the Northeast Market Lamb Show in Madison. She has also competed in out of state shows in Anderson, Spartanburg, and Columbia, South Carolina. Taylor has even gone as far as Louisville, Kentucky to compete in the North American International Livestock Exposition (NAILE) which is an enormous annual event. She has placed high at all of the shows and represented Lincoln County FFA well.

The main objective of Georgia livestock shows is to teach young exhibitors life skills such as responsibility, discipline, record keeping, teamwork, and sportsmanship.

Taylor's future plans are to attend Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College next fall and begin a major in the field of Animal Science.

Taylor is the daughter of Mark and Becky Goldman and she has one brother, Chandler.