2025 BHR News

Bricelyn won her first class and championship in open company at the Dakota Buttes Classic. She and her breeding gilt Opal were Champion Breeding Gilt. 

A huge congrats to her show buddy Landon Wager for winning Reserve 

Thank you to the Adams Co Fair for hosting such a wonderful event. It’s super fun because rodeo slack runs next to the show ring and we get to see lots of show and rodeo friends

Bricelyn’s showmanship has improved so much this year. 

A huge thank you to all who’ve helped her improve particularly Ben Cooley & Bryan Funk at Flatland Showpigs, and fellow show friends the Zeigler’s, Wagers, and John Jung

And thank you to Mrs Cheryl Lawrence for coming over to watch Bricelyn

In the current edition of the Pederson’s live life to the fullest, we packed about 650 miles, one pig show at the Central States Fair in Rapid City, and four rodeo performances at the SD State 4-H Finals Rodeo in Ft. Pierre into three days.

Bricelyn has put huge amounts of effort into preparing, walking and practicing with her pigs and practicing rodeo this summer. 

At the Central States Fair she was: 3rd in showmanship
2nd in class and sixth overall in Market Barrows with Double Stuff better know as Stuffy
And won her class, and was Reserve Champion overall Breeding Gilt with Opal
She had the goal of winning a banner this year and got it done! 

At the State 4-H rodeo she and Yankee won
4th in the first round in Goat tying with 8.56- she had the goal of breaking 10 seconds and smashed it. The goat Bricelyn drew in the second round was super tough and knocked her and 2 of the other contestant’s with top 5 goat times from the first round out if the overall. That's ok, it’s the luck of the draw and the learning gained. 

5th overall in flag race…ran an 8.26 in the first round and an 8.25 in the second round. She had the goal of top 10 and smashed it. In 4-H rodeo 5th is the crying hole…in 5th you don’t qualify for state or get awards vs 4th place. Bricelyn was a little disappointed but reminded herself that there were 69 girls she bested that would have loved to be 5th.  

Not many photos but lots of good times with great people and lots of learning 

Thank you to the Central States Fair and the SD State 4-H Finals Rodeo committees for making these huge youth events possible

Thank you to the Zeigler and Wager families for their help at the pig show…everything from helping me back and park the ol 30 foot trailer into a 20 foot space, and help getting it out of the even tighter space to leave, to getting pens set up, taken down, and pigs ready and shown. 

A huge thank you to Flatland Show Pigs for breeding awesome pigs and being great mentors.

We’ll never be able to thank Addison and Kari Salverson enough for giving us the opportunity to buy Yankee back. 

Thanks to Jodie & Quinn Anderson for letting us stall Yankee at your place. Your kindness is so appreciated. Having a safe place for him without driving back and forth makes life so much easier for us. 

We greatly appreciate everyone who cheers and provides encouraging words for Bricelyn. I love our crew of folks who cheer for all our area kids. Sometimes we make a scene but dang it we’re proud of our kids. 

The best part of these events are the friends you make and the youth we develop. 

Now off to Bricelyn’s first day of grade 8 and another big work week for the old people of the house.  

Chad “364 days to the 2026 4-H Finals!!!!
Lisa “27 days to the next pig show!!!! “

I almost forgot, at 24 and 22 years of age, our nephews Austin and Wyatt along with Austin’s bride Saydee climbed the big Ft Pierre gumbo hill. I was kinda hoping the lads would roll down like lots of the little kids do