Callaway County 4-H youth awarded MFA Western Saddle

COLUMBIA, Mo.– Allixandrea Johnson from Callaway County has been awarded the 2014 MFA Western Saddle.

Janice Spears, MFA feed products marketing manager, presented the saddle to Allixandrea on March 14 at the 4-H State Horse Judging Contest in Columbia.

Allixandrea has served as secretary and treasurer of the Hardin Hustlers 4-H Club and as captain of both her county’s Horse Bowl and hippology teams. “One of the greatest things I have learned is that I still have a lot to learn,” she wrote in her award application. “Even though I am a junior leader, the other members of the horse program have so much to teach me.”

For the past 24 years MFA Inc. has provided a free western saddle to a Missouri 4-H youth 14 or older.