Al6—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 3,1981
Eastern National opens today
TIMONIUM, Md. More than
2,000 ot the nation’s prize livestock
and several dozen professional
rodeo stars will compete tor
trophies and prize money in
separate showrmgs at the 35th
Eastern National Livestock Show
and Rodeo here, this week.
More than 100 livestock judging
events will bring together adult
and young breeders ot beet cattle,
hogs and sheep, as well as horses,
in a competition tor more than
$50,000 in premiums.
There will be judging classes tor
eight breeds ot cattle, two more
than last year, according to John
Wildesen, show manager. The new
beet breed classes will be
Limousin and Chianina. Other beef
judging shows will be Angus,
Hereford, Polled Hereford,
Charolais, Shorthorn and
Simental.
Young livestock breeders will
compete with market steers, hogs
and sheep in the 4-H Club and
Future Farmers ot America
classes.
One oi the highlights ot the show
will be the annual "Sale ot
Champions” on October 11 at 12:30
p.m. The top ten percent ot the
market steers, hogs, and lambs
judged in the competition will be
sold at auction to the highest
bidder.
Another feature is the "Kiddie
Barn,” in which young children
can pet live beet and dairy cattle,
baby pigs, Jambs, goats, ponies
and other farm animals.
invitational championship rodeo
performances, featuring cowboys
and cowgirls in bronc and bull
riding, call roping, steer wrestling
and other events, will be held on
October 9 at 7:30 p.m., October IU
at 3:00 p.m. and October II at 3:00
p.m.
Visitors to the livestock show
will be able, tor a modest tee, to try
their luck at riding a mechanical
bucking bull and will be treated to
country western music concerts by
Danny Garland and the County
Express tollowing the two evening
rodeo performances.
Tickets tor the rodeo per
formances may be ordered m
advance at a cost ot $5 each before
October a and will be s’/ each at the
gate on the performance days. The
Saturday, October ID, rodeo at 3
p.m. will have a special rale ot
$3.00 lor children 12 years ot age
and under. There will be a $1 per
car parking tee during the
livestock show from October 7
through 11.
Today, October 3
Maryland Arabian Futurity;
Maryland Arabian Gelding Sale
for 4-H & FFA Members.
Sunday, October 4
All Arabian Show.
Monday, October 5
8 a.m. Kiddie Barn -
Program.
Tuesday, October 6
8 a.m. Kiddie Barn - i
Program.
Wednesday, October 7
- Kiddie Bam
8 a.m.
Program.
9 a.m. - Junior Dairyman ot Year
Judging Contest.
12 Noon - Open HeretordShow.
2 p.m. - Open Shorthorn Show.
Thursday, October 8
8 a.m. - Appaloosa Horse Show.
8 a.m. - Kiddie Barn - School
Program.
9 a.m. - Junior Stockman Contest.
9 a.m. - Open Polled Hereford
Show.
i pan- Open Charolais Show.
7 p.m. - Open Chianma Show.
Friday, October 9
8 a.m. - Appaloosa Horse Show.
8 a.m. - Kiddie Barn.
8 a.m. - 4-H, FFA & Collegiate
Livestock Judging Contest.
10 a.m. - 4-H & FFA Market Lamb
Show.
12 Noon - Open Limousin Show.
2:30 p.m. - 4-H & FFA Carcass
Steer Live Evaluation.
3 p.m. - Feeder Calves &. Heiters
Show.
7:30 p.m. - Feeder Calt Sale,
7:30 p.m. - KODEO.
Saturday, October II)
8 a.in. - Cutting Horse Show.
8 a.m. - Kiddie Barn.
8 a.m. - 4-H & FFA Collegiate
Judging .Contest Awards
Breaktast.
8 a.m. - Open Breeding Sheep
Show.
H a.m. - 4-H & FFA Steel' Show
U.S. red
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Com
mercial red meat production for
the United States during August
1981 totaled 3.04 billion pounds up 1
percent from August 1980, ac
cording to the USDA Crop
Reporting Board. January-August
red meat production, at 25.4 billion
pounds, was virtually the same as
the corresponding period in 1980.
The 1981 accumulated produc
tion changes from the 1980 period,
.by individual components, were:
beef, up 4 percent; veal, up 9
percent; pork, down 5 percent;
lamb and mutton, up 4 percent.
Commercial red meat production
includes slaughter in federally
inspected and other plants, but
excludes animals slaughtered on
farms.
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Comparing August 1981 with
August 1980.
Beef production at 1.83 billion
pounds was up 3 percent. Head kill
at 2.93 million was up 3 percent and
average live weight increased 1
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1 p.m. - Open Angus Show.
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4 p.m. - 4-H & FFA Market Hog
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7:30 p.m. -RODEO.
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meat production up
pound to 1052.
Veal production at 33 million
pounds was up 6 percent. Calf
slaughter at 225 thousand head was
up 8 percent, while average live
weight was unchanged at 250
pounds.
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billion pounds, down 3 percent. The
6.85 million head killed was down 2
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from a year ago, according to the
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8 a.m. - Cutting Horse Show.
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8 a.m. - Open Breeding Sheep
8 a.m. - 4-H, h'h’A & Junioi
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12:30 p.iu. - Sale ot Champions.
3 p.m. - KOUKO.
3 p.m. - Suiunental Show.
percent, while average live weight
was unchanged at 239 pounds.
Preliminary lard production was
86 million pounds, down 1 percent.
Lamb and mutton production at
25 million pounds, was up 9 per
cent. Head kill' at 490 thousand was
up 9 percent, while average live
weight declined 1 pound to 105.
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calf slaughter decreased tour
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Hog slaughter at 154,700 head
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