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Show Exhibitors. We have great news!
We are now accepting Show entries for the
May 3 - 5th Regional 1 JABGA Show
and 3 ABGA Shows
Entries are now online at
Showman.app
For the first time ever OMGP has been chosen to host a Regional JABGA Show. WOW! That is news, and the show will be held May 3rd to 5th 2024 at the Livestock Pavilion at the Salem, Oregon Fair Grounds. Our JABGA region covers a huge area that is almost one third of the United States. There will be much more to come in the future so stay tuned. We hope all our members are as excited as the Board of Directors are.
Hi, I am Harless Marcom, an OMGP Board member. My wife and I have been members for many years. The following is a request that I have sent to one of the agricultural businesses in the McMinnville area. I hope you will also read this and help out with any donations that you can. I am also helping to set up and run the Scholarship Raffle at the May JABGA show in Salem. If you have any items that you can donate for the raffle you can bring them to the fairgrounds on Friday May 3rd. Look me, my wife Barbara, MacKenzie Castro or Ruth Kilgore up and we will gladly take those donations and set them up. Please make sure that you give us something with your name or ranch name so that we can make sure that you get credit for your generous donation. Thank you in advance for anything that you can donate.
Oregon Meat Goat Producers is an organization that promotes and expands the meat goat industry on a local level through education, cooperative marketing, presentations, shows and networking, using honest and fair trading. We have low annual membership costs that are used in part to sponsor children in FFA and 4-H in their goat raising and showing efforts. Scholarships are awarded each year. The income from all of our raffles goes toward College Scholarships for young people that are planning a career in some agricultural field and trade schools that relate to the agricultural field.
We are asking you to consider sponsoring our first ever JABGA (Junior American Bore Goat Association) show being held at the Salem Fair Grounds May 3-5th 2024. If you should decide to help with a sponsorship we will be proud to display your banner for your business and return it to you after the show is over.
We were invited by JABGA to host this show, the first of it’s kind held in the state of Oregon. Since this a Divisional show we are expecting entries from Washington, Idaho, California, Wyoming , Oregon and perhaps other states within this JABGA division. We are also looking at huge expenditures that we have never faced before because of the JABGA requirements for hosting this show. We feel that it is not only a great honor to host this divisional show but we are eager to meet goat raisers from all of these states and let them get a look at Oregon.
Our sponsorship levels are: Platinum $1000.
Gold $500. Silver $250.00 and Bronze 100.00 or anything you feel you can afford. ALL donations will be gratefully accepted no matter how small or large.
We want to thank you in advance for any financial sponsorship that you can help us with.
Please contact our Board Member Harless Marcom if you decide to help or if you have any questions about this show or our organization His number is 503-784-9121 Thank You Again.
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MEET OUR OMGP BOARD
Stacey Rumgay, President
I started in 4-H with an Angus heifer over 50 years ago. Now, after receiving my first Boer cross doeling over 20 years ago the goats out number the cattle at Western Horizon Ranch. “You can’t have just one goat” as the
saying goes! I am a4-H leader in Clackamas County. I enjoy raising meat goats. Goats are not only great for our youth to show and learn about agriculture, goats are very excellent in converting weeds, blackberries and brush into high quality meat. Forget the chemical spray and get a goat! You are able to clear land in an environmentally friendly manner and have a high protein low cholesterol red meat that is delicious for the dinner table!
Ruth Kilgore, Vice President
I am a partner in an 80 head commercial meat goat operation. I have enjoyed goats for 30 years. I’m also the goat leader for the Bacon Bits and Friends 4-H Club here in Newberg. Goat meat is consumed by 70-75% of
the world making it a valuable food source as well as an organic weed and blackberry controlling agent!
Karen Lackner, Secretary/Treasurer
Your current OMGP Treasurer, Karen Lackner, has been raising goats with her husband Jerry on their farm, Twin Firs Ranch in Lyons, Oregon, since 2002, now almost 12 years. Starting with a herd of 10 random goats bought from someone going out of business, most of them were unregistered, some Nubian/Boer crosses, full Nubian, Angora, and a couple registered Boer does. We were totally new at raising goats and had to learn a lot fast. We spent a lot of time going to goat farms all over, goat seminars and everything we could think of. Over the years the old goats have been replaced with better goats and at one time our herd was somewhere between 75
and 100. We soon learned that was way too many and if we ever wanted to do anything but be in the barn we needed to cut down. We now have a much more manageable herd of around a dozen goats, which is much easier to handle. The goats are a lot of work but at the same time they are fun and interesting. Over the years we have supplied many 4H and FFA market goats to kids in the valley and a lot of them have done well at fairs. We will continue to do that for awhile longer until we decide it's time to retire and go travelling more.
MacKenzie Castro, Member-at-Large #1
I was born and raised in Dayton, Oregon where I am now raising my own Family. I have been married 16 years to my husband Luciano. We have three kids. I was raised with goats my whole life. I was the first person to start showing goats in the Dayton FFA chapter. I really enjoy goats. I help on my Aunt Ruth Kilgore's farm where we have many goats and other animals. I have started my kids showing goats in 4-H. I am a volunteer in the Bacon Bits and Friends 4-H club with with the goats.
and 100. We soon learned that was way too many and if we ever wanted to do anything but be in the barn we needed to cut down. We now have a much more manageable herd of around a dozen goats, which is much easier to handle. The goats are a lot of work but at the same time they are fun and interesting. Over the years we have supplied many 4H and FFA market goats to kids in the valley and a lot of them have done well at fairs. We will continue to do that for awhile longer until we decide it's time to retire and go travelling more.
MacKenzie Castro, Member-at-Large #1
I was born and raised in Dayton, Oregon where I am now raising my own Family. I have been married 16 years to my husband Luciano. We have three kids. I was raised with goats my whole life. I was the first person to start showing goats in the Dayton FFA chapter. I really enjoy goats. I help on my Aunt Ruth Kilgore's farm where we have many goats and other animals. I have started my kids showing goats in 4-H. I am a volunteer in the Bacon Bits and Friends 4-H club with with the goats.
Dave Armstrong, Member-at-Large #2
Barbara Marcom, Member-at-Large #3
My husband and I have been married for 60 years in December. I am a Native Oregonian. I graduated from McMinnville, High in 1963. He is originally from Texas. We met while we were both in the navy. We have lived on our ranch for twenty two years and raised our Heritage Spanish Goats for nineteen years. Currently we raise a small number of Nubian goats, chickens and rabbits.
Harless Marcom, Member-at-Large #4
As above. I did serve as OMGP's President for awhile and was honored to have served such a fine club.
Harless Marcom, Member-at-Large #4
As above. I did serve as OMGP's President for awhile and was honored to have served such a fine club.
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