BY ROBIN PHILLIPS
Staff Correspondent s
STATE COLLEGE - The
seventh Performance Tested Boar
Sale was held during Ag Progress
week at the Pennsylvania
Department of Agriculture’s Meat
Animal Evaluation Center in State
College.
Of the 80 boars from outstanding
swine herds across the state, 35
met the requirements for the sale
and sold to buyers from Penn
sylvania, New Jersey, and West
Virginia. The Yorkshire breed
proved to be the most sought after
as 18 Yorkshire boars sold for an
average of $565.27. Fourteen
Durocs were sold averaging
$425.00, two Hampshires averaged
$287.50, and one Berkshire sold for
$275.00.
For the second year, Reno
Thomas, Brooks End Farm, Rl,
Beavertown, consigned the highest
testing boar that sold for $1,550.00,
the top price of the sale. Purchased
by the New Jersey Department of
Corrections, Trenton, N.J., the
Yorkshire hog tested at a 2.55 daily
gam with a boar index of 154. With
his boar index of 154, the third
highest index of the sale to date,
the Yorkshire weighed in at a final
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The other consignment of
Thomas sold for $BOO.OO, also to the
New Jersey Department of
Corrections. The second highest
selling boar in the sale, this lit
termate to the high selling boar
took 142 days to reach 230 pounds
as compared with the 136 days it
took his brother.
“A lot of our breeding is im
ported, Large White breeding from
Europe,” Thomas states. “The
outcross blood produces soundness
and mothering ability. That’s what
sets ours apart,” Thomas and his
son-in-law, Mark Stehr said.
Thomas with his brother, Park,
and Stehr operate the 400-breeding
sow setup at Brooks End Farm. In
business for over 30 years, their
stock is sold all over the Eastern
United States and several foreign
countries.
Because Landrace and
Yorkshire crosses are very
popular with breeders, Landrace
and Duroc stock have been added
to the predominant Yorkshires at
Brooks End Farm. Only breeding
stock is sold from the 3,000 plus
purebreds on the farm and the
Thomas’s use this Performance
Tested Boar Sale as advertising for
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their production sales held four
times a year. “We’ve tested more
pigs than any other breeder,”
Thomas stated about this testing
trial and sale.
The Yorkshire consignment of
Joel E. Stem, R 2, East Berlin,
brought the third highest bid of
$775.00 from Hillside Acres, Rl,
Lenhartsville. Hillside Acres was
the volume buyer of the sale with
the purchase of five boars for a
total of $2800.00.
The Performance Tested Boar
Sale is held each year after the
testing of enrolled boars is com
pleted. “We try to sell the top 75%
of those tested,” explained Ed
Barben, acting director at the
center. To qualify for the sale, the
boar must index 90 or more points.
It must have a soundness score of
two or more and also an underline
score of two or more. All boars are
vaccinated and quaranteed by
their owners to be breeders.
Scoring was completed by a
committee of three in accordance
with the National Swine Im
provement Federation recom
mendations and then rescored by
the sale committee.
“The quality is as good or maybe
better,” Barben stated about this
year’s boars, as the auctioneer,
Mark Stehr is shown with Yorkshire boar from Brooks End
Farm, Beavertown, that topped the Performance Tested
Boar Sale at State College.
Harry Bachman prepared to sell
the boars. Prior to the start of
bidding, the Pennsylvania Pork
Producers Council conducted a
drawing and gave out six $50.00
certificates to buyers from their
membership to use on a purchase
at the sale.
Other high selling boars in
cluded;
Yorkshire - $725.00 - Consigned
by Joel E. Stern, R 2, East Berlin,
and sold to Bruce Lemmon, Rl,
Newburg, Pa.
Yorkshire - $725.00 - Consigned
by Penn State University,
University Park, and sold to Brent
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Duroc - $700.00 - Consigned by
Bruce Lemmon, Rl, Newburg, and
sold to Hillside Acres, Rl,
Lenhartsville.
Yorkshire - $575.00 - Consigned
by Elwood Houser, Lebanon, and
sold to Kent Strock, Mechanic
sburg, Pa.
Duroc - $525.00 - Consigned by
Charles E. Smith, Washington, and
sold to William Darrow, Honey
Grove, Pa.
Yorkshire - $525.00 - Consigned
by David Glass, Rl, Birdsboro, and
sold to Gary Posbaugh,
Philadelphia, Pa.
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