New Buckeye Breeders Series (BBS) ONLY Show to take place at the 2025 Ohio Beef Expo

 The 2025 Ohio Beef Expo, hosted by the Ohio Cattlemen’s Association (OCA), will take place March 13 - 16 at the Ohio Expo Center in Columbus, Ohio.  

The Ohio Beef Expo is Ohio’s largest beef cattle event managed by the Ohio Cattlemen’s Association (OCA), a non-profit membership organization, representing the business interests important to farm families raising cattle. It is one of the largest events held at the Ohio Expo Center with an annual attendance of over 30,000 people with over 1,500 head of cattle exhibited.    

New this year, to provide added recognition to Ohio's bred, born and raised registered steers and heifers in the Buckeye Breeder's Series (BBS) program, the junior show committee has implemented a separate BBS ONLY show at the Expo. The show will include the selection of the Top 5 BBS Heifers and Steers with separate premiums and banners.   

Similar to other OCA BEST shows, the show ring will have two rings. Cattle will show in the main junior show ring and then all BBS cattle will filter over into the second BBS ring to show. The top 5 BBS will be selected after the conclusion of the top 10 in the junior show ring.

To include as many BBS animals as possible, the OBE Jr. Show Committee is clarifying the following: 

• $25 nominations for new BBS animals, not already nominated in the BEST program, will be accepted through the close of OBE entries, rather than the published March 1 deadline. 
•  New BBS animals will not be required to pay an additional BEST nomination fee, since it is the last sanctioned show of the season 
•  Points for the BBS BEST division will only be counted for BBS animals in the main ring. (There will be no points available in the BBS only rings.) 

BBS Steers and heifers can show in both rings and show in different divisions in different rings, (i.e. show crossbred in the main ring and show by breed in the BBS ring), if desired, providing they meet the following: 

• Pay a $25 BBS nomination for new BBS cattle with registration papers confirming BBS eligibility by the close of OBE entries.