The top 130 gilts of the over 3,000 that showed up and were evaluated in the Crossbred and Purebred divisions of the 2025 Oklahoma Youth Expo will be sold at the Night of Stars Gilt Sale Tuesday night.
Show manager Blake Kennedy with Kennedy Ventures is excited that another great set of gilts are ready to be sold in a hybrid sale where you can bid in person at the OKC Fairgrounds or participate online at CCI Live. A total of 70 crossbred and 60 purebred gilts will be offered. More details about the OYE Purebred Gilt Show is available here while the Crossbred Gilt show details are available here.
Kennedy says that in the show swine business “I would say that if you don’t know about the Night of Stars Gilt Sale in Oklahoma City, you may be living under a rock.”
Kennedy adds “There is a sale order posted online but to be honest with you, the order does not actually determine the quality of the animals.” And Kennedy reminds everyone “It takes just 2 people to be interested in the same one to really push the price up.”
Kennedy says that some folks who have seen the videos that were made of all of the animals in the sale this past Saturday afternoon are impressed enough to let him know that they are purchasing a plane ticket and will be there at the Fairgrounds in person on Tuesday night.
The staging location for the sale has been moved this year to the Oklahoma Expo Hall allowing OYE to keep the gilts cleaner and have more space to showcase them and to hold the live and online sale.
The leadoff lots for the 2025 sale will be the Purebred Supreme and Reserve Supreme gilts- the Champion and the Reserve Champion Durocs. The Supreme Champion is owned and shown by Maverick Mosteller of Ft. Gibson 4-H while Lot 2, the Reserve Champion Duroc, is owned by Briar Mann of Morris FFA.
Lot 3 will be the Supreme Champion Crossbred- owned and shown by Mayla Coleman of Madill FFA. Lot 4 is the Reserve Supreme Champion Crossbred owned and shown by Catherine McClain of Leedey FFA.
See details of the entire lineup on the Kennedy Ventures website by clicking here.
Click here for the full schedule for the 2025 OYE. The Oklahoma Farm Report team will be snapping pictures from start to finish- and you can see them as we add them to our Flickr album for 2025- available here. If you want to look back to the 2024 OYE- click here for our pictures from last year’s event.
Our coverage of the 2025 Oklahoma Youth Expo is sponsored by Hilliary Communications. More than 60 years ago, the Hilliary Family acquired a small telephone company in rural southwest Oklahoma. Now in its third generation, the company has grown from a single exchange with just 100 access lines covering 22 square miles to now serving more than 19,000 customers in 22 counties throughout Oklahoma & Texas. The company also offers IP television service and internet speeds up to 1 Gig. Click here to learn more about Hilliary Communications.
