Bender family wins premier awards at Somerset Holstein show
BY BETSY STITT
Staff Correspondent
MEYERSDALE - Somerset
County Holstein Breeders started
off another show season recently
with the Somerset District Holstein
Show, held at the county
fairgrounds'.
Approximately 150 Holsteins
were paraded before judge Ron
Long. Although the numbers were
down from last year, said exhibitor
Wayne Schrock, quality remained
high. Following the show, Long
commented that any of the day’s
champions could go on to face
stiffer competition on the state
level.
Carl Bender was the top winner
of the day, winning both the
premier breeder and premier
exhibitor honors. The Bender
owned animals placed consistently
at the top of their classes, which
Bender credited to the hard work
of his whole family.
In the junior division Paul Carr
was named the premier breeder
and Jenny Brown earned the
premier exhibitor award.
Senior and grand champion
honors went to Edgar Yoder,
showing Md.-Maple-Manor-Threat
Bonnie. This 5-year-old Hanover-
Hill Triple Threat daughter
produced 27,080 pounds of milk and
964 pounds of fat as a four year old.
Micheal Carr, with Can-dale
Pete Little Jo, received the reserve
senior and reserve grand awards
in the open competition and the
grand championship in the junior
division.
Carr’s four-year-old Straight-
Pine Elevation Pete daughter has
a top record of 21,523 pounds of
milk and 942 pounds of fat with a
4.4 percent test.
Doug Sheeler won reserve senior
and reserve grand awards in the
Lancaster Guernsey Breeders
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Lancaster County Guernsey Breeders held their annual field day this week at the
Raymond Witmer farm. Judy Rohrer, Lime Valley Road, Lancaster, left, will receive a
Guernsey calf to be donated by the Witmer family. This is the second year that Judy's
name was drawn to receive the free calf. Others pictured are judging contest winners.
They include: Janice Garber, Willow Street, first in the youth division; Mildred Benedict,
Waynesboro, first in the women's division; and Donald Breneman, Strasburg, first in the
men’s division.
Other winners were; Men - 2. Joe DeLong, Quarryville; 3. Jim Witman, New
Providence; Women - 2. Millie Linde, Oxford: 3. Lois Hershey, Peach Bottom; Youth - 2.
Kurt Breneman, Willow Street; 3. Judy Rohrer, Lancaster. In the drawing for the calf,
Dave Mull, Quarryville, won a $25 check, and Tom Arrowsmith, Peach Bottom, and Scott
Wagner. Peach Bottom, received hats. Speakers included County Agent Glenn Shirk and
Lancaster County Dairy Princess Janae Martin.
junior division with a Kron
Elevation Chief Elmer daughter.
Junior champion honors in both
open and junior competition were
won by Karen Marteeny, with
Marteeny Tony Corry. This senior
yearling heifer is a Marshfield
Elevation Tony daughter.
Gina Berkley received both the
reserve junior champion ribbons
with a junior yearling heifer by
Straight-Pine Elevation Pete.
A junior yearling bull shown by
Paul and Sharon Fox was named
grand champion bull. Golden
Circle Touch of Class is a Leadfield
Columbus-ET son. Kirk Hillegass
had the reserve grand champion
with a Carlin-M Ivanhoe Bell son.
Corey Jay Will had the junior
division grand champion bull,
which was also a Columbus son.
Following are the results of the
show.
1 Kirk A Hillegass
1 Kirk A Hillegass, 2 Corey Jay Will, 3 Cecil
Lohr
1 Paul and Sharon Fox
Champion Bull (Open)
Paul and Sharon Fox
Champion Bull (Junior)
Corey Jay Will
Reserve Champion Bull
Kirk A Hillegass
Jr. Heifer Calf
1 Daniel E Kimmel,2 Karen J Marteeny
1 PaulL Carr, 2 Kenton Carl Bender
1 Paul and Sharon Fox, 2 Corey Jay Will
1 CarlL Bender, 2 Jennifer K Brown
1 Gina Berkley. 2 Paul and Sharon Fox
Intermediate Yearling
1 Jennifer L Barnett, 2 Wayne and Marlin
Schrock
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Jr Bull Calf
Sr. Bull Calf
Jr. Yearling Bull
Intermediate Calf
Senior Calf
Summer Yearling
Jr. Yearling
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Senior Yearling
1 Karen J Marteeny, 2 CarlL Bender
Junior Champion
Karen J Marteeny
Reserve Junior Champion
Gina Berkley
Junior Best Three Females
1 PaulandSharonFox.2 Karen Marteeny
Dry 4 Years and Under
1 Ezra and Mary Yoder, 2 Paul and Sharon
Fox
Dry 5 Years and Over
1 Philßeachy, 2 Wayne D Schrock
Junior 2-Year-Old
1 Paul and Sharon Fox, 2 Matthew D Welch
Senior 2-Year-Old
1 DougSheeler,2 CarlL Bender
3-Year-Old
1 CarlL Bender,2 CarlL Bender
4-Year-Old
1 Micheal L Carr, 2 Wayne D Schrock
S-Year-Old
1 Edgar Yoder, 2 CarlL Bender
6 Years and Over
1 CarlL Bender,2 ArlenMaust
Senior and Grand Champion (Open)
Edgar Yoder
Res. Sr. and Res. Grand Champion (Open)
Michael Carr
Senior and Grand Champion (Junior)
Michael Carr
Res. Sr. and Res. Grand Champion (Junior)
Doug Sheeler
Best Three Females
1 Oak View Ridge Holsteins (CarlL Bender),
2 Carrdale Holsteins
Produce of Dam
1 Paul Carr and Ezra Yoder, 2 Karen Mar-
teeny
Dam and Daughter
1 Willard Maust, 2 Matthew A Brown
Premier Breeder (Open)
CarlL Bender
Premier Exhibitor (Open)
CarlL Bender
Premier Breeder (Junior)
Paul Can-
Premier Exhibitor (Junior)
Jerry Brown
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family after they earned the Somerset Holstein show's
premier breeder and exhibitor banners.
Mike Carr showed the grand champion in the junior division
competition at the Somerset Division Holstein Show.
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Ezra Yoder is at the halter of the grand champion of the
Somerset District Holstein Show, which was owned by Edgar
Yoder.
DYC names Avery ag-business head
DOYLESTOWN - Dr. John
Avery has been appointed
Chairman of Delaware Valley
College’s Agribusiness Depart
ment, replacing George West, who
served as acting chairman of the
department for one year. West will
continue as Chairman of the
College’s Business Administration
Department.
The Agribusiness major was
introduced at Delaware Valley
College in 1983 to afford students a
chance to pursue career op
portunities in one of the ap
proximately nine steps between
agricultural production and
consumption. As of this past fall, 40
students were enrolled in the
College’s Agribusiness program.
“I am genuinely excited about
the prospects of my appointment,"
said Avery. “This is a challenge
but one which I am confident in
approaching. The College has the
resources necessary to make the
Agribusiness major a successful
one. And I intend to use my
background in agriculture and
education and business to make
some important things happen. ’'
Before being hired at Delaware
Valley College, Avery was most
recently employed at Richland
Community College in Decatur,
Illinois. Avery was the
Agricultural Coordinator there,
responsible for the school’s
agriculture department via
program development, evaluation,
personnel recruiting, teaching and
community relations.
Avery’s previous work ex
perience includes having served as
an instructor and program
representative for the Southwest
Wisconsin Vocational Technical
Institute, district sales manager
for the Dairyland Seed Company,
territory sales manager for
Cargill, Inc. and County Extension
Agent for Michigan State
University.
He graduated from Michigan
State in 1952 with a Bachelor of
Science degree. He went on to earn
his Master of Science in Teaching
from the University of Wisconsin
in 1976 and his Doctor of Education
from the University of Illinois in
1984.
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