2018 Youth Achievement Winner

The National Youth Achievement winner is an individual who does outstanding work in the Brown Swiss breed. An Achievement winner will be chosen at the National Convention.

Laura Frye, Logansport, Indiana, is the daughter of Perry and Kathy Frye. From the purchase of two Brown Swiss heifers, Miami Hills Farm was developed. She exhibits her Brown Swiss on the local, state and national levels, participates in the classification program and has her herd on DHIA test. Laura served as the 2014 Indiana Brown Swiss Queen and was a finalist in 2015 for the FFA Dairy Production Entrepreneurship Proficiency Contest. She is a sophomore at South Dakota State University where she is double majoring in Dairy Production and Dairy Manufacturing with a Food Safety minor. In her free time, Laura enjoys riding horses, photography and scrapbooking.

In addition to winning Youth Achievement, Laura also won the Genomic Merit Heifer Award as part of the National Junior Heifer Show.  There were 126 head exhibited by 74 youth from 8 states.  She also won the Senior Showmanship contest at that show.