Local Milton Hershey student wins cow and sheep ribbons at PA Farm Show

A Milton Hershey School sophomore earned top honors competing this year at the 108th annual Pennsylvania Farm Show.

According to a press release from Megan Weber, media relations manager for the school, 10th-grader Tim Geynovich of Newmanstown competed “after years of hard work, patience, and training to get the cattle and sheep he raised ready for the big stage.”

This year, in what was Tim’s second appearance at the state Farm Show, he earned a first-place ribbon in the Early Summer Yearling Heifer Junior Show and a second-place ribbon in the Early Summer Yearling Heifer Open Show. Turning from cattle to sheep, he also earned third place in the Southdown Yearling Ewe Junior Show and fourth place in the Southdown Yearling Ewe Open Show.

“I’m excited to show the same cow that I worked with at last year’s Farm Show,” Tim said in an article that appears on the MHS website. “She has also grown in her stature and skills and I’m glad we both can learn from last year and bring those fundamentals into this year’s show.”

Weber told LebTown that Tim was one of seven Milton Hershey students who participated in this year’s Farm Show.

“He knew he wanted to be in farming since age 11,” Weber said, noting he has worked on dairy farms owned by family and friends in the Newmanstown area. “In the future he wants to continue farming but also pursue his college education in the medical field.”

Tim enrolled at Milton Hershey School in the eighth grade and got started in Milton Hershey’s Agriculture and Environmental Education program during his freshman year of high school. At the school, Tim is a member of the 4H and Animal Clubs that introduce students to raising and caring for animals there.

“Agriculture is an art and a skill,” Tim said in the MHS article. “You have to have a connection with your animals and there is special communication that happens in the ring. Practice builds on that connection, and the animals will know what to do.”