The annual Flint Hills Beef Fest Feedlot and Carcass Awards Banquet was hosted Jan. 23, 2010 at the Granada Theatre in Emporia. The cattle were fed for 124 days at Ingalls Feed Yard, Ingalls, Kan.
This event wraps up the 2009 Flint Hills Beef Fest.
Top winners follow. 

Feedlot Contest
Steer Divison Heifer Division
1st place pen owned by Kevin Collins and
Howard Wittker, Strong City
1st place pen owned by Heine Farms, Alma

 
Steers
Prize Money Pen Owner Average Gain
$700 Pen 21 Kevin Collins and Howard Wittker 5.256 lb.
$450 Pen 7 Darbyshire ETC 4.885 lb.
$300 Pen 17 J Bar Angus 4.845 lb.
$150 Pen 2 Leffler Farms 4.755 lb.
$125 Pen 20 Wittker Farms 4.729 lb.

Heifers
Prize Money Pen Owner Average Gain
$700 Pen 46 Heine Farms 5.2503 lb.
$450 Pen 50 Spring Creek Ranch 4.7198 lb.
$300 Pen 45 Anderson Ranch 4.7192 lb.
$150 Pen 41 Leffler Farms 4.6950 lb.
$125 Pen 63 Woodbury-Lusk 4.6372 lb.


Carcass Contest 
Steer Division Heifer Division
1st place pen owned by Kent Schade, Olpe 1st place pen owned by Linsey Farms, Lebo


Steers
Prize Money Pen Owner
$700 Pen 27 Kent Schade
$450 Pen 3 Leffler Farms
$300 Pen 13 Spring Creek Ranch
$150 Pen 14 Linsey Farms
$125 Pen 24 Voboril Family Beef/Mid Continent Farms
 

Heifers
Prize Pen Owner
$700 Pen 46 Heine Farms
$450 Pen 50 Spring Creek Ranch
$300 Pen 45 Anderson Ranch
$150 Pen 41 Leffler Farms
$125 Pen 63 Woodbury-Lusk


 
Parry Briggs, Reading, won the 2009 Cattle Marketing Contest.