Class one duroc hog competitors file into the ring for the judging of hogs weighing over 180 pounds Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023, for the Tip-O-Tex Livestock Show at the Sonny Brazil Agricultural Science Complex in San Benito. (Denise Cathey/The Brownsville Herald)
SAN BENITO — Students from throughout Cameron and Willacy counties gathered for the Tip-O-Tex FFA District Livestock Show at the Sonny Brazil Agricultural Science Complex Thursday to put their hogs to the test.
Class one duroc hog competitors file into the ring for the judging of hogs weighing over 180 pounds Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023, for the Tip-O-Tex Livestock Show at the Sonny Brazil Agricultural Science Complex in San Benito. (Denise Cathey/The Brownsville Herald)Sean Garza, an eighth grader at Jordan Miller Middle School in San Benito, exits the arena with his Yorkshire hog, Jessie Pinkman, after winning first place for class 9 and breed champion in the Yorkshire category Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023, for the Tip-O-Tex Livestock Show at the Sonny Brazil Agricultural Science Complex in San Benito. (Denise Cathey/The Brownsville Herald)Camryn Resendiz, a 10th grader at Harlingen South High School, wipes clean her dark cross hog ahead of showing Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023, for the Tip-O-Tex Livestock Show at the Sonny Brazil Agricultural Science Complex in San Benito. (Denise Cathey/The Brownsville Herald)A duroc hog pokes its nose through the bars of its pen Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023, for the Tip-O-Tex Livestock Show at the Sonny Brazil Agricultural Science Complex in San Benito. (Denise Cathey/The Brownsville Herald)Mateo and Luke Sosa sit together on top of the pen housing Luke’s hog before judging begins Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023, for the Tip-O-Tex Livestock Show at the Sonny Brazil Agricultural Science Complex in San Benito. (Denise Cathey/The Brownsville Herald)Hampshire hogs are led around the arena for judging Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023, for the Tip-O-Tex Livestock Show at the Sonny Brazil Agricultural Science Complex in San Benito. (Denise Cathey/The Brownsville Herald)Chuck Lopez, an eighth grader with the Santa Rosa FFA, walks his duroc hog around the arena Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023, for the Tip-O-Tex Livestock Show at the Sonny Brazil Agricultural Science Complex in San Benito. Lopez took home first prize in class one and the breed champion for duroc hogs.(Denise Cathey/The Brownsville Herald)Christina Torres, a 10th grader at Lopez Early College High School, stands in the pen with her Yorkshire hog Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023, for the Tip-O-Tex Livestock Show at the Sonny Brazil Agricultural Science Complex in San Benito. (Denise Cathey/The Brownsville Herald)Hog judge Sam Womble looks over class one duroc hog entries as they walk round the arena Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023, for the Tip-O-Tex Livestock Show at the Sonny Brazil Agricultural Science Complex in San Benito. (Denise Cathey/The Brownsville Herald)Christian De Jesus, a ninth grader at Harlingen High School, pours a bag of pine shavings into his hog’s pen Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023, for the Tip-O-Tex Livestock Show at the Sonny Brazil Agricultural Science Complex in San Benito. (Denise Cathey/The Brownsville Herald)Malillany Segundo, a 12-year-old from Gutierrez Middle School in San Benito, is pictured next to her Hampshire hog after winning first place in class four and breed champion in the Hampshire category Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023, for the Tip-O-Tex Livestock Show at the Sonny Brazil Agricultural Science Complex in San Benito. (Denise Cathey/The Brownsville Herald)
