Martin, Herr share Lancaster FFA roundup honors
BY JACK HUBLEY
NEW HOLLAND - A pair of
Garden Spot High School FFA’ers
found themselves sharing top
honors at Lancaster County’s FFA
market lamb roundup held on
Wednesday at the New Holland
Sales Stables.
The event consisted of two
shows, one for those lambs going
on to the Farm Show and a second
for lambs being sold following the
roundup.
Named champion among the
lambs bound for Farm Show was a
Suffolk-cross wether exhibited by
Margaret Herr of Narvon. The
daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Robert
Herr, she purchased her winning
lamb from Mark Bambury of Ohio.
Lisa Martin, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Aaron Martin of New
The spoils of victory were divided between two Grassland
chapter FFA exhibitors at Lancaster County's FFA sheep
roundup on Wednesday night. Margaret Herr took champion
honors among lambs bound for Farm Show with this Suffolk
wether. Herr also showed the reserve champion sale lamb.
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Holland, took home reserve honors
in this class with her Hampshire
cross, bred by Bill Wade of Va. The
immaculate black lamb had been
named grand champion market
lamb at the Manheim Farm Show
only a week earlier.
In the sale class, judge Gail Post
stayed with her winning duo, this
time naming Miss Martin for
champion honors, and placing
Herr in the reserve position.
Martin’s blue-ribbon sale lamb
was a purebred Hampshire wether
purchased at Manheim’s Supreme
Club Lamb Sale this spring, and
bred by Tim and Sarah Fleener of
Lancaster.
Both Miss Martin and Miss Herr
were pleasantly surprised again on
Thursday, when their winning
lambs brought record-setting bids
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Dane Fine, of David Fine Meat
Packing in Pittsburgh, went home
with both the grand and reserve
champion lambs. Fine offered four
dollars per pound for Martin’s top
lamb, and paid $2.50 for Herr’s
reserve.
All but three of the sale’s 25
lambs brought one dollar per
pound or more, with buyers paying
an average of $1.23 per pound
(including champions) for the 2,385 u
pounds of lamb.
Other volume buyers included
Jack Godek, Marlboro, N.J.;
Willie the Butcher, Washington
Boro; and New Holland Sales
Stables, who also donated the use
of their auction facilities for both
the show and sale.
With about 40 lamb projects in
progress throughout the county,
Lancaster County’s Farm Show
allotment for this year is 13 en
trants, an increase of five over last
year’s field. Listed below are the 13
FFA exhibitors chosen to compete
at the Farm Show, as well as
roundup sale results.
1 Margaret Herr Narvon 2 Lisa Martin New
Holland 3 Molly Wise Blue Ball 4 John Spangler
Lihtz 5 Clifford Horning Denver 6 Kevin Martin
East Earl 7 Linda Good East Farl 8 Kevin
Bollinger Lititz 9 Brian Hurst Bowmansville 10
Tony Bender New Holland 11 Dan Martin Lititz
12 Tina Strauss 13 PhilEby Ephrata
1 Lisa .Martin New Holland 2 Margaret Herr
Narvon 3 Kevin Martin East Earl 4 Jeff Martin
East Earl 5 Tony Bender New Holland 6 Heidi
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8 Jeff Martin East Earl 9 Linda Good East Earl
10 Dave Fulton Adamstown
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Named grand champion in the sale lamb class was this
purebred Hampshire shown by Lisa Martin. Martin finished in
':hr it, behind the F' Shr '.la r
congratulatory peck on the cheek from Allison Diffenbach at
the New Holland Sales Stables on Wednesday night. Lisa is
the daughter of Alan and Carol Diffenbach, of New Holland.
Berry retiring in Del.
DOVER, Del. - Robert C.
Berry, Director of the Division of
Production and Promotion with the
Delaware Department of
Agriculture, has announced his
retirement after over 11 years with
the Department.
Berry was appointed to the post
of Director by then-Governor
Sherman Tnbbitt. He was sub
sequently reappointed by
Governor PierreS. duPont.
Since 1979, Berry has also served
as Acting Director of the Division
of Standards and Inspections, and
has served numerous times as
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
The 67-year-old Berry graduated
from the University of Delaware in
1941 and worked in the agricultural
chemicals field prior to coming
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Berry says he leaves the
Department of Agriculture “with
mixed emotions I came down to
rewrite some pesticide laws for a
few months and lasted over 11
years,” he said.
“I truly believe the Department
is much better than it was 10 years
ago, and I’m glad to have been a
part of the positive change,” he
said.
Berry lives in Newark with his
wife, Bee. They have 2 daughters
and 4 grandchildren.
Berry says Dec. 31 will be his
last day of work and his plans after
that are still under consideration.
“I’ll do some consulting work,
some gardening and civic work,
and I plan to give lots of time to my
grandchildren,” he said.
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