H&R Block of Culpeper led off the 2026 CMR Livestock Auction, Monday night, purchasing Ashtyn Baldwin’s 127-pound market lamb for $70 a pound. The record-breaking sale of 202 animals brought a record $410,247 for the 4-H and FFA youth of Culpeper, Madison, and Rappahannock counties. PJR photos by Nathan Kipps.
The 2026 CMR Farm Show will be remembered as the year of record livestock exhibitors and an amazing sale of project animals that topped the charts of organizers from Culpeper, Madison, and Rappahannock counties.
It also marked the return of the Friends of CMR, a group consisting of people and businesses interested in supporting the youth of the region but cannot afford to purchase an animal outright…