Hog price a record at Ephrata Fair
EPHRATA - John “Ron”
Zimmerman, 19, earned
$680.40 last Thursday
evening for his champion
Duroc market hog at the
Ephrata Fair. That’s $680.40
that he plans to funnel back
into a new Nebraska-type
swine finishing house that he
and lus father, John R.
Zimmerman, are building on
their 115-acre farm near
Ephrata Rl. The buyer of the
champion hog was a local
firm - Chet Long Real
Estate, 120 Lake Street,
Ephrata, Pa., paying $3.15
per pound. That price is the
best ever recorded at the
Ephrata Fair, and 65 cents
above last years high price.
Two days previous to the
market hog sale, Zim
merman showed his 216
pound homebred Duroc to
the champion over 11 classes
of junior market hogs which
totaled 53 entries. Zim
merman, who earlier this
year was named the FFA
state swine proficiency
winner and later went on to
attain the status of second in
the Eastern Region in that
same area, is a graduate of
Ephrata High School and is
now in partnership with his
father. He owns 14 sows, the
majority of which are Duroc.
Although he’s received
considerable recognition for
his developing abilities with
swine, this win was his first
grand championship title.
He did show the champion
lightweight animal of the
junior market hog show at
the Pennsylvania State
Farm Show however. ,
k Richard Strauss, Ephrata'
Rl, showed the reserve
grand champion of the
‘Ephrata show - a graduation
present from his employers,
Dutch Valley Farms,
Manheim.
Strauss, who is in part
nership with his brothers
Steve and Bob, received
$2.20 per pound for his 218
pound Duroc-Hampshire
cross bred by Dutch Valley
Farms. Hatfield Packing
Company, Hatfield, Pa., was
the buyer , paying $479.60 to
the brothers for one animal.
The Strauss’s however,
had the lightweight and
heavyweight champions, as
well. They received $1.05 per
pound for their lightweight
champion and .81 per pound
for their heavyweight.
Ron Zimmerman, Ephrata Rl, right, received $3.15 per pound for his
champion market hog of the Ephrata Fair. Chet Long, left, bought the animal
for a total of $6BO on Thursday evening.
The brothers, who are the
sons of Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Strauss, Ephrata Rl plan to
reinvest their proceeds in
breeding stock.
Avid showmen, they have
animals set aside for the
Keystone Livestock Ex
position, the Manheim Farm
Show, and the Pennsylvania
Farm Show.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 24,1977
Mike Pfautz, Stevens Rl,
who had the lightweight
reserve champion received
.95 per pound for his animal,
while Judy Zimmerman,
Ephrata Rl, commanded .82
per pound for her reserve
champion heavyweight.
The sale average without
the champions was $55.50
per hundredweight. Randall
Kline, Stevens Rl, was the
auctioneer for the 55 head.
The two pig chase animals
were also sold. The 65
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Howell went for $45 and was
purchased by Richard
Bollinger. Robert Martin,
Ephrata Rl, caught the 110
pound pig which was sold
Thursday evening for $65 to
Allen Ackley, Lititz Rl.
Other buyers for the sale
were H. D. Mate, Brown
stown Bank, Penn Packing,
New Holland Sales Stables,
Walter M. Dunlap and Sons,
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