John Zilverberg Family Scholarship

John Zilverberg of Holabird, SD is a nationally recognized Polled Hereford breeder and in 1994 was inducted into the National Polled Hereford Hall of Fame.  The Bar JZ herd has been the number one breeder of Gold Benchmark dams in the Polled Hereford breed and has recently added purebred Limousin cattle.  John is the breeder of the sire Bar JZ Tradition 434 that proved to be one of the top performance sires in the Hereford breed and is still being used by artificial insemination in some of the top herds in the U.S. and Canada today.  The Bar JZ Ranch holds an annual spring production sale.  Two of John's children are graduates of SDSU.  Donald graduated in 1970 with a B.S. degree in animal science and is involved in the family's cattle operation.  Karen Zilverberg Geditz graduated from SDSU in 1971 with a B.S. degree in Home Ecnomics Education.

The funds for this scholarship were provided by John Zilverberg and family of Holabird, South Dakota.