Lortie, Eby Take Grand at Holstein Show
Published: Friday, June 19, 2026
The Indiana State Show took place last Saturday at the Elkhart County Fairgrounds with many quality cows in attendance. There was a total of 106 cows shown in the Holstein show and 57 cows in the Red and White Holstein show, which was judged by Philip Topp from Botkins, Ohio.
In the Holstein Show, Addison Lortie from Albion, was the grand champion winner with her 3-year-old cow, Delcreek Crash My Party. Leann Acres and Bec Wicker, Middlebury, were reserve champion with their 4-year-old cow, Maple-Slope Lambda Barbie.
In the Red and White Holstein Show, Jordan Eby from Elkhart, in partnership with Bob Osborn and Pinnacle Genetics, was grand champion winner with their 3-year-old cow, Lyn-Vale Jordy Chico. Sunrose Holsteins from Millersburg, was reserve champion with Sunrose Jet-Red-ET.
Lortie, who is 14 years old and will be starting her freshman year in high school this fall, has been showing dairy cows since she could walk, but started in 4-H when she was 9-years old. She is currently in her sixth year of 4-H and also shows pigs and dairy feeder calves.
Lortie was pleased when Crash My Party was named intermediate champion before winning the whole show. She also had the winning summer yearling, Butlerview Master Shock-ET, that was later named honorable men-tion junior champion. Additionally, her winter calf, Vir-Clar Grenadine-Red, was first and her fall heifer, Samway Master Se-quence-ET, placed second.
Although Lortie is from Indiana, that doesn't stop her from traveling outside the state to other national shows. Previously this year,
Lortie and her dad, Mike, travel to Richmond, Utah, for the Western Spring National Holstein Show with a few of their cows and received Junior champion honorable mention with their winter heifer calf.
Lortie enjoyed the experience saying, "It's still good competition, but more of a laidback environment and just a fun show to be around new people." She hopes to do well with the same string of cat-tle at the Noble County Fair in July, Indiana State Fair in August, World Dairy Expo in October and finally, the North American International Livestock Exposition in November.
When she's not showing cows, Lortie keeps busy with FFA activities like dairy and livestock judging, public speaking contests and aiming to be a state officer for 2027. Lortie competes in the Livestock Skill-A-Thon, Dairy Milk Quality Contest, and will be going to the Indiana FFA State Convention and compet-ing in public speaking. She was also a part of the first dairy judging team in her FFA chapter and hopes to see it continue and grow.
Lortie said, "My ag advisor said why don't we put a team together and see what we can do on the dairy side and maybe in these next four years maybe be able to go to a national contest."
Lyn-Vale Jordy Chico was named intermediate champion before being selected as grand champion for owners Bob Osborn, Pinnacle Genetics and Jordan Eby, from Lookwell Farm. Eby was very satisfied with their success and was excited with the increased competition at the show. He also had reserve senior champion with his aged cow, Ms Shanias Stella, owned with Osborn.
Eby has been showing at the Indiana State Show for 21 years and has been in partnership with Osborn for 12 years. They current-ly own around 15 animals together and have enjoyed exhibiting together and watching their success build over the years. They try to focus more on milk cows, and a large share of their Red and Whites originated from the first cow they owned to-gether, TJ Polo Ms Shania-Red.
Eby was glad to see the participation at the Indiana State show from younger fami-lies and keeping the next generation going, saying, "I think the future is reasonably bright as far as the quality. It's a fair number of younger families who are really starting to carry a good bit of the load and I'm excited to see what the next number of years brings us."
The next show for the Lookwell string is the Elkhart County 4-H Fair. Eby op-erates a lease program for kids who don't come from farms but want to be involved in 4-H with dairy cattle.
"We do have some lease kids who show at our county show, and I use it as an opportunity for them to kind of work with some animals," he said.
While not all the heifers may come from Lookwell Farms, Eby works to find heifers from surrounding farmers that work well for those kids who want to participate.
Eby will test his show string at the Indiana State Fair and the Kentucky State Fair before wading into deeper waters at World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wis. and the North American International Livestock Exposition in Louisville this fall.
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