Royalty reigns over CAFNR Week
By Nicky Frazier and Sarah Jackson

CAFNR Week is coming down the home stretch and one thing is on everybody’s mind:  Who will be crowned King and Queen of CAFNR Week?  The winners will be announced at Barnwarming on Friday, Sept. 29, from 9 p.m. to 1 p.m.

Each club and organization had the chance to nominate one male and one female member to represent them. The organizations represented range from the Ag Econ Club to Collegiate Cattlewomen to Greek groups.

The King nominees include agribusiness management seniors Clint Kendrick, of Paris, Mo., representing the Ag Econ Club and Adam Brinker, of Auxvasse, Mo., representing Sigma Alpha. Two agricultural education seniors, Wade Orscheln, Bonnots Mill, Mo., and Cody Brock, Norborne, Mo., are representing the Ag Ed Society and Alpha Gamma Rho, respectively. Another pair sharing a major is agriculture systems management sophomore Paul Cowherd, Boonville, Mo., representing Collegiate Cattlewomen and senior Chris Beach representing GDI.  Rounding out the field are three more seniors, animal science student Jacob Brookhart representing Block and Bridle, plant science student David Kleinsorge representing Collegiate Farm Bureau, and Carl Woodard representing Alpha Gamma Sigma.

The Queen nominees are a younger group, with many representatives in their junior year.  Two sophomores start out the field with parks, recreation, and tourism student Robin Loehner representing the Collegiate Farm Bureau, and animal sciences student Katie Voelker, of Perryville, Mo., representing Alpha Gamma Sigma. Joining Voelker are three more animal science students: senior Michelle Dowell, Paris, Mo., representing GDI, junior Lisa Stiens, Skidmore, Mo., representing Block and Bridle, and junior Jill Nelson, Centralia, Mo., representing Collegiate Cattlewomen. Two future ag educators, junior Mariah Yates, Monroe City, Mo., and senior Tiffany Crews, Slater, Mo., are representing the Ag Ed Society and Alpha Gamma Rho, respectively.  Agricultural journalism senior Megan Cooper, Stanberry, Mo., and junior Nicki Busdieker, Hawk Point, Mo., are representing Sigma Alpha and the Ag Econ Club, respectively. Rounding out the Queen nominees is plant science junior Mariah Bock, of New Madrid, Mo., representing Farmhouse.

Each of the candidates competed in an essay contest as well as an interview. All that is left to do is to wait and see who is crowned this year’s CAFNR Week King and Queen!

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