PHOTO GALLERY: 4-H members hold Livestock Buyers Dinner at Boone County Fair

Alex Stichnote, 15, left, Abbey Rathert, 15, and her sister Grace Rathert, 13, from the Englewood 4-H Club, give out salads and dressings on Friday at the 4-H/FFA Livestock Buyers Dinner in the Boone County Fair Multipurpose room.   |  Tatiana Fernandez

Andi Mitchell, 14, left, from the Hallsville 4-H Club, helps out as Kody Walters, 12, from the Centralia 4-H Club,
serves rib-eye steak to livestock buyers on Friday at the 4-H/FFA Livestock Buyers Dinner in the Boone County Fair multipurpose room.   |  Tatiana Fernandez

R.E. Voorheis, left, and Charles Roberts, look over the auction sheet on Friday at the 4-H/FFA Livestock Buyers Dinner in the Boone County Fair multipurpose room. Roberts was looking to bid on his grandson's steer at the auction after the dinner.   |  Tatiana Fernandez

Matt Vaughn, 10, left, and Haley Ray, 10, look through the dividing curtain at the band that started rehearsing in the multipurpose room while they served desert at the 4-H/FFA Livestock Buyers Dinner on Friday at the Boone County Fair. German chocolate and vanilla cake was served that afternoon.   |  Tatiana Fernandez

R.E. Voorheis talks to Donald Horn on Friday at the 4-H/FFA Livestock Buyers Dinner in the Boone County Fair multipurpose room. Voorheis has been doing auctions for over 50 years, and Horn owns a butchering and meat processing company in Fulton.   |  Tatiana Fernandez

Kids from 4-H clubs organized a dinner for livestock buyers from previous and present years as a thank you gift on Friday in the Boone County Fair multipurpose room.   |  Tatiana Fernandez

Caroline Sicht, center, walks on stage at the 4-H/FFA livestock auction with her 1310-pound steer Friday at the Boone County Fair. The Reserve Champion Market beef sold for $5 a pound. Sicht stands to make $6,550.   |  Kayla Kauffman