Council members consider career choices

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Alison Gartman is the best Ayrshire judge at the State 4-H Dairy Judging Contest in 2025, scoring 50s on both classes and a 49 on reasons.

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Alison Gartman’s Guernsey cow RHG Villa Breezy Venus wins the senior 2-year-old class at the 2025 World Dairy Expo. She was also Reserve Intermediate Champion of the Junior and Open shows.

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Alison Gartman shows her Milking Shorthorn Summer Yearling in the Junior Champion lineup at the Northeast Wisconsin Protein Show in summer 2025.

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Alison Gartman’s 4-H Dairy Judging Team places second at the National 4-H contest held at the 2025 World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wisconsin. Gartman placed seventh individually.

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Alison Gartman places ninth in the 2025 National 4-H Dairy Quiz Bowl Contest Seeding Exam in Louisville, Kentucky.

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Alison Gartman Wisconsin Agriculture Youth Council

MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Agriculture Youth Council members met Dec. 18, 2025. Council members, all Wisconsin high school seniors, served in leadership roles for the session.

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Alison Gartman of Sheboygan, Wisconsin, is a senior at Kohler High School. She shows all breeds of dairy cattle under the prefix ALB Acres and helps with chores on her family’s 65-cow dairy farm. She’s active in the Lakeview Badgers 4-H Club, the Wisconsin Junior Holstein Association and the Wisconsin Junior Guernsey Association. She plans to attend a four-year university to study animal science and pursue a career within the dairy industry.

Ashley Andre helps with youth perspectives; she’s the policy-initiatives adviser for the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection. Visit datcp.wi.gov for more information.