PHOTOS: 2024 Northwest Montana Fair

A girl reaches into a pen to pet a two-week-old piglet from Teagen Flint's Wapiti Show Pigs inside the Trade Center at the Northwest Montana Fair on Tuesday, Aug. 13. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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Two-week-old piglets from Teagen Flint's Wapiti Show Pigs play inside a pen in the Trade Center at the Northwest Montana Fair on Tuesday, Aug. 13. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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A competitor holds her goat in her arms during goat showmanship at the Northwest Montana Fair on Thursday, Aug. 15. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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Competitors walk their goats around the arena during senior goat showmanship at the Northwest Montana Fair on Thursday, Aug. 15. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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Competitors line up their goats during senior goat showmanship at the Northwest Montana Fair on Thursday, Aug. 15. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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Carly Tranel shows her steer during senior beef cattle showmanship at the Northwest Montana Fair on Wednesday, Aug. 14. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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Beau Siderius speaks with judge Sierra Myers during senior beef cattle showmanship at the Northwest Montana Fair on Wednesday, Aug. 14. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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Mary Owens and other competitors work to position their sheep during senior sheep showmanship at the Northwest Montana Fair on Tuesday, Aug. 13. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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Laila Sargeant shakes the hand of judge Sierra Myers after Myers awarded her grand champion during senior sheep showmanship at the Northwest Montana Fair on Tuesday, Aug. 13. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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Brady Boll shows her steer during senior beef cattle showmanship at the Northwest Montana Fair on Wednesday, Aug. 14. Boll won grand champion in her division. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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Rheama Clark holds a chick from one of her family's first-place winning chickens as the mother hen looks on inquisitively inside the small animal barn at the Northwest Montana Fair & Rodeo on Friday, Aug. 16. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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Dacia Rutske checks out rows of dahlias for judging at the dahlia show at the Northwest Montana Fair & Rodeo on Friday, Aug. 16. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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Mike Valler, head judge with the Montana Dahlia Society, judges dahlias in the dahlia show at the Northwest Montana Fair & Rodeo on Friday, Aug. 16. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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Dahlias lined up for judging at the dahlia show at the Northwest Montana Fair & Rodeo on Friday, Aug. 16. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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Mike Valler, head judge with the Montana Dahlia Society, judges dahlias in the dahlia show at the Northwest Montana Fair & Rodeo on Friday, Aug. 16. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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Dahlias lined up for judging at the dahlia show at the Northwest Montana Fair & Rodeo on Friday, Aug. 16. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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Maizy and Curtis Kimmet try to reach the muzzle of a giant draft horse named Huckleberry inside the draft horse barn at the Northwest Montana Fair & Rodeo on Friday, Aug. 16. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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Riders are suspended at sunset on the Vertigo carnival ride at the Northwest Montana Fair & Rodeo on Thursday, Aug. 15. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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Riders swing at sunset on the Vertigo carnival ride at the Northwest Montana Fair & Rodeo on Thursday, Aug. 15. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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Riders enjoy the Frenzy ride at the carnival at the Northwest Montana Fair & Rodeo on Thursday, Aug. 15. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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Attendees play Water Gun Fun! at the carnival at the Northwest Montana Fair & Rodeo on Thursday, Aug. 15. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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The Area 51 ride glows at dusk at the carnival at the Northwest Montana Fair & Rodeo on Thursday, Aug. 15. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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Brady Boll gives her steer a kiss after winning grand champion in senior beef cattle showmanship at the Northwest Montana Fair on Wednesday, Aug. 14. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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Laila Sargeant gives her sheep a kiss before the start of senior sheep showmanship at the Northwest Montana Fair on Tuesday, Aug. 13. Sargeant won grand champion in her division. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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Alonzo Skunkcap, of Browning, and Nolan Conway, of Cut Bank, rope their steer during team roping as the sun shines through a light rain during the PRCA Rodeo at the Northwest Montana Fair & Rodeo on Thursday, Aug. 15. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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Bailey Bench, from Oakley, Idaho, gets bucked off his horse Gambler during saddle bronc riding at the PRCA Rodeo at the Northwest Montana Fair & Rodeo on Thursday, Aug. 15. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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Jesse Medearis, from Belgrade, ropes his calf during tie down roping at the PRCA Rodeo at the Northwest Montana Fair & Rodeo on Thursday, Aug. 15. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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