A2B—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 29,1981
Boar sale attracts distant buyers, sets record
BY DEBBIE KOONTZ
UNIVERSITY PARK - Penn
sylvania’s 4th Performance Tested
Boar Sale broke previous records
in two capacities Wednesday night
when it packed in buyers from six
states and Canada and sold boars
for an average of $541 30
According to Reno Thomas,
Brooks End Farm and breeder of
the top indexing pen in the 1981
Boar Test, this new average and
buyer turnout is proof of the ef
fectiveness of the swine testing
programs.
“We are now attracting the
attention of hog producers all over
the eastern United States Before
we had to go out of state to get test
hogs,” Thomas said.
Five years ago that’s what
Thomas had to do when he went to
Ireland, purchased hogs, and in
troduced “new blood” to
Americans.
This year’s top pen is a “result of
new blood lines from Ireland,”
Thomas said He bred the high
indexing and the high-selling boar .
Speaking out in favor of the
testing program is State
Agriculture Secretary Penrose
Hallowell who said, “Performance
testing is an excellent way to turn
genetic improvement into higher
profits ”
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Thomas gives more support for
the program by adding, “Testing
gives the consumer better quality
meat for less dollars everybody
profits.”
And indeed everybody did profit
at this sale Held at the Meat
Animal Evaluation Center in State
College, the sale featured one
Berkshire, 13 Duroc, four Hamp
shire, four Landrace, five Spotted
and 23 Yorkshire boars, all on a
controlled program
Thomas’ top indexing pen had an
average daily gain of 217 pounds
per day, 2.32 pounds of feed to
produce a pound of gain and took
153 days to reach 230 pounds The
pen, sired by RTB9 Danny 194-9,
averaged 64 inches of fat, 4.90
square inch loin eyes, 64.4 percent
lean cuts and a final average index
of 143
High indexer from the top pen
was RTBI Danny 28-9 who had an
average daily gain of 2 21 pounds,
149 days to 230 pounds, backfat of
62 inches 64 9 percent lean cuts
and final index of 148 Harold Eby
of Hagerstown, Md purchased the
animal for $9OO
High seller, also owned by
Thomas and in the top pen, was 28-
11 who had an average daily gain of
2 22,148 days to 230 pounds, backfat
of .68 inches, and a final index of
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144 The high seller went for Sl5OO to
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The high indexing Duroc pen, the
second highest pen over all. breeds
was owned by Calvin H Lazarus
and Sons of Busy Acres Farms,
Whitehall, Centre County The pen
averaged a final index of 126. The
four boars were sired by CHIiS
Riggin Clout 1
Third high indexing pen
belonged to Grandview Farms of
Wellersburg, Somerset County,
who consigned the top landrace
pen The boars, sired by LNR
Bigfoot 28-5 had an average daily
gam of 216 pounds and final index
of 126
Second individual high selling
boar was a owned and
bred by David Korns of Grandview
Farms This boar had a final index
of 148, had a daily gain of 2 14
pounds a day and took 158 days to
reach 230 pounds This boar was
purchased by Brooks End Farm
for $925
The overall sale average was up
from last year the average was
$537 50 and there were two less
boars last year 48 sold
Although the record for the
highest selling performance tested
boar still remains to a Yorkshire
boar which sold for $l6OO in 1978,
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4th annual Pennsylvania Performance Tested Boar Sale,
Wednesday night. Behind him is Bob Kimble, head of the
meat animal evaluation center.
some of the breed averages were
up from last year-
Eleven Duroc boars sold for an
average of $531 81 (last year 12
» Durocs averaged $5OB 33): five
boars averaged $6OO
(last year 5 Landraces averaged
$375; three Hampshires averaged
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$558 33 (last year 2 Hampshires
averaged $537.50 ; 22 Yorkshires
averaged $5BO 68 (last year 24
Yorkshires averaged $619 79; and
four Spotted boars averaged
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