Show champion prices drop to reflect current market
FARM SHOW Record
prices, usually plentiful at
the Friday junior market
sales at Farm Show, were
scarcer than hens’ teeth this
year.
The closest anyone came
to a record was Michele
Bankert, R 3 Hanover, whose
grand champion junior
market hog tied the all-time
sale record of $19.50 per
pound The total price of
$4680 was a swine sale
record
Michele’s entry was a
heavyweight Duroc, one of
143 pigs shown in the com
petition The per pound sale
price tied the record set in
1979.
Michelle is the daughter of
Rodger and Darlene
Penn Manor
to hold meetings
MILLERSVILLE - A pair
of livestock meetings, one
poultry and one cattle, will
be held this week at Penn
Manor High School.
The first meeting is will
deal with poultry disease
identification. It is slated for
Tuesday, January 27 at 7 30
p m.
Guest speaker will be
Veterinarian Wilson Miller,
a well known poultry doctor.
He will be on hand to
examine laying birds, and to
point out areas on a
chicken’s body to check for
disease symptoms.
Each farmer should bring
a pair of 10 or 12 inch tin
snips to the meeting
The second session will be
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Adams County.
The reserve champion
hog, exhibited by first-tune
Eric Sheiss of Cham
bersburg, brought a
respectable $7 50 per pound,
although that price was $1
off the pace set for a reserve
champ set in last year’s sale.
Sheiss’s brother Donald had
taken the grand cham
pionship in last year’s show,
and his hog had sold for $l7 a
pound.
“Work your pig a lot, and
talk to it,” Eric advised
“When your pig does
something bad, you have to
correct him immediately In
your spare tune, have some
fun,” he added
an embryo transplant
discussion and is open to all
people interested in embryo
transplants in beef and dairy
animals.
Guest speaker will by Dr.
Carl Troop, a vet with
Pennstar Embryo service
The embryo transplant
meeting will be held
Thursday, January 29, at
7.30 p.m
Both meetings will be held
at the Penn Manor High
School ag room
For further information on
either of the meetings,
contact Jeff Hart, Penn
Manor Young Farmers
Advisor at the school His
phone number is 717/872-
5431
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hogs were purchased by
Hatfield Packing.
Auctioneer Abe Dif
fenbach labored long and
hard to get prices up,
especially in the junior beef
sale.
Blame Clowser, Dayton,
had showed his 1255 pound
Angus x Chianina x
Limousin crossbred to the
championship on Thursday
afternoon.
But try as he might,
Diffenbach could not get the
price on dowser’s steer
above $6.10 per pound. That
was a full 50 cents per pound
under the price fetched by
last year’s grand champion.
Final bidder on “Monkey
Lip” was Sizzlin’ Steak
House, a Carlisle restaurant.
The steer brought its 17-
year old showman a total of
$7655.
Although the bidding ran
up quickly at first, it stalled
at the $5 level and never
quite recovered its earlier
momentum.
Buyers Terry Sellers, Anil
Thakrar, and Susan Bratie,
in the restaurant business
two years said they hope to
buy the grand champ every
year
Ernie Frey, R 2
Quarryville, had the reserve
champion at the 1981 Show
He was last year’s grand
champion exhibitor
Frey’s 1350-pound reserve
champion steer was auc
tioned for $2 60 per pound, or
just over $3500. That price
was far under last year’s
reserve champ record price
of $3.35 a pound
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dowser’s grand champion steer at Farm Show. That’s 50 cents under last year s
record. Reserve champion also was lower, but worst price drop was in the lamb
sale where the grand champion went for about half of last year's bid.
Frey’s steer was pur
chased by Carlos Leffler,
Richland, Lebanon County.
During the sales, tune was
taken to honor Lancaster
County Extension Director
Max Smith, who has an
nounced he will retire at the
end of March.
Julie Kuzemchak,
Pleasant Gap, saw her grand
champion market lamb go
for an even $lO per pound
Buyer was Fox Markets,
Middletown, Dauphin
County
It was the fourth time
Kuzemchak has blocked out
a grand champion in the sale
ring at Farm Show.
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That fact alone may have
dampened bidder en
thusiasm.
Last year, Julie’s reserve
champion entry fetched 50
cents more per pound than
her 1981 champion She had
sold the 1980 champ for $22
per pound, and the 1980
reserve for $lO 50.
Reserve grand champion
at this year’s show was
showed by Barbara Herr, R 2
Narvon.
Her 112 pound market
lamb was sold to Larry
Bubbenmoyer, Mainland,
Montgomery County, for $7 a
pound, well below the record
price
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The grand champion
carcass lamb, weighing 70
pounds and consigned by
Julie Kuzemchak, bought
$3.50 a pound, again
reaching only half of last
year’s record price of $7 a
pound.
The carcass was pur
chased by Raymond Seidel,
Kutztown.
Gerald H. Hess, Dun
cansville, purchased the
reserve grand champion
carcass lamb, a 66 pound
entry consigned by Cham
pion Acres, Champion,
Fayette County.
The second place carcass
went for $1.75 a pound