For Your Information - March 12th - Cleveland Livestock Show and Dairy Day

On For Your Information this week, my guest is Calvin Nelson, member of the Executive Committee for the Cleveland Rodeo in conjunction with the Cleveland Livestock Show and Dairy Day, who provided listeners with information concerning the Greater Cleveland Area’s premier Vocational and Agriculture youth event and Professional Rodeo. He explained the Rodeo events begin March 30 with the Working Rodeo, which features local working cowboys in events used on modern ranches with the Pro Rodeo Friday and Saturday nights. In addition to the well-known pro rodeo events, there will be Mutton Bustin’ with youth riding sheep and a calf scramble for the older young people. The title Dairy Day is a holdover from pre-Depression days when the area was covered with diaries and the premier livestock were different breeds of dairy cattle. Today’s show features steers, heifer (market and breeding), and breeder cattle, along with market broilers, lambs (market and breeding), goats and swine all raised by young people in the community with sale proceeds going to the children who raised the animals and college scholarships.