D4-Lancaster Fanning Saturday, July 19,1986
4-H'ers Prepare for State Days with York Livestock Judging Contest
WELLSVILLE Sixty-seven
contestants from six counties took
part in the York TCounty 4-H
Livestock Judging Contest on July
3.
Held at Warrington Green
Farms in Wellsville, the contest is
staged as a practice session for 4-
H’ers bound for State Achievement
Days in August. The winning state
team earns the honor to represent
Pennsylvania at the National 4-H
Livestock Judging Contest held at
the North American International
Livestock Expo in Louisville,
Kentucky in November.
York County teams took top
honors in both the junior and senior
divisions at the July 3 contest.
York entrants also took high in
dividual honors in both divisions,
with Krista Rankin winning the
senior division and Sandy
Eisenhour placing first in the
junior division. Contest rankings
are given below.
York Llvntock Judfing
Senior Division
Three Counties Compete In Regional
BY JOYCE BUPP
York Co. Correspondent
YORK - Teams from three
counties vied for honors on July 9
at the first-ever York County
Regional 4-H Meats Judging
Contest.
Godfrey Brothers Meats, York
RB, hosted the event, which
brought into competition 18 in
dividuals and teams from York,
Berks, and Lancaster counties.
High senior individual was
Nancy Townsend, and high junior
was Bradley Trowbridge. Both
represented York County.
York’s senior and junior entries
also took top honors in the team
competition. Senior team mem
bers were Holly Crisamore, Nancy
Townsend, and Joanne Rishel.
Members of the junior team were
Pa. Juniors Elected to American-
International Charolais Positions
ST. PAUL, Minn. - The 1986-87
officers for the American-
International Junior Charolais
Association were elected during
the recent annual junior heifer
show and leadership conference
held June 23-27 in St. Paul, Minn.
Selected as president of the
youth group was Anita Geddes of
Higbee, Mo. A Pennsylvania
junior, Jan Waltz of Manheim, will
serve as the vice president.
Rounding out the slate are two
Texas members, Kristi Carver of
Dallas, and Meghan Casey of Ft.
Worth. Kristi will serve as the
Newly elected officers of AIJCA include (clockwise, lower
left) Anita Geddes, president; Kristi Carver, secretary;
Meghin Casey, treasurer; Jan Waltz, vice president.
BEEF
1 Robbie Rohrer Chester 2 Melissa Trostle
York 3 Anne Mary Frey Lancaster
SHEEP
1 Tncia Musser Lancaster 2 Krista Rankin
York 3 Robbie Rohrer
SWINE
1 Lisa Hoover York 2 Emily Weaver Lan
caster 3 Joe Garber Lancaster
ORAL REASONS
1 Krista Rankin York 2 Melissa Trostle York
3 John Eaton York
OVERALL INDIVIDUAL
1 Krista Rankin York 2 Robbie Rohrer
Chester 3 Melissa Trostle York
TEAMS
Ist York 1 Krista Rankin 2 Melissa Trostle 3
John Eaton 2nd Chester 1 Robbie Rohrer 2
Tiffany Rohrer 3 Donna McCauley 3rd Lan
caster 1 Jeff Craig 2 Emily Weaver 3 Tncia
Musser
Junior Division
BEEF
1 Sandy Eisenhour York 2 Shelby Heagy
Lebanon 3 Daryl Bomgardner Lebanon
SHEEP
1 Chris Hunter Berks 2 Joyce Stough York 3
Michelle Sullivan Cumberland
SWINE
1 Jason Krail Lebanon 2 Sonia Shearer York
3 Leah Byers Cumberland
OVERALL INDIVIDUAL
1 Sandy Eisenhour York 2 Amy Eshelman
Berks 3 Travis Werley Berks
TEAMS
Ist York 1 Sandy Eisenhour 2 Elizabeth
Bishard 3 Joyce Stough 2nd Lebanon 1 Daryl
Bumgardner 2 Jason Krail 3 Shelby Heagy 3rd
Berks 1 AmyEsheiman 2 Travis Werley 3 Chris
Hunter
Bradley Trowbridge, Joyce Stough
and Suzanne Bishard.
The contest was patterned after
the meats judging contest held
annually during State 4-H
Achievement Days. It included
classes of beef and pork carcasses,
hams, ribs and steaks, and the
identification of 24 assorted cuts of
meats. Judge was James Watkins
of Penn State.
Trophies and ribbons for winning
individuals and teams were
sponsored by the York County 4-H
Beef, Sheep and Swine Clubs, York
County Swine Producers
Association, Rishel’s Landscaping
of Seven Valleys, and Dunkard
Valley Farms, Dallastown.
Results of the contest follow:
association’s secretary, and
Meghan will be the group’s
treasurer.
In addition to the officers,
juniors were elected to the 10-
member board of directors. David
Naser of Washington, Pa., was
chosen as Area 7 board member.
He will represent junior members
in Pennsylvania, Virginia, New
York, Maryland, Delaware and the
New England states. The officers
and board members help to plan
and carry out activities for the 700-
member national junior
association.
High senior team honors at York Livestock
Judging contest went to York team made up
of Melissa Trostle (left), John Eaton Jr., and
Krista Rankin. Krista was high senior in
dividual.
Meats Judging Results
Senior Division
High Individual
1 Nancy Townsend York 2 Joanne Rishel
York 3 Holly Crisamore York
Teams
1 York (Nancy Townsend Joanne Rishel Holly
Crisamore) 2 Lancaster (Doug Musser Mike
Craig Tracey Landis Mark Price) 3 Berks (Kurt
Fisher Kemanne Ranck)
Identification
1 Joanne Rishel York 2 Nancy Townsend
York 3 Holly Crisamore York
Judging
1 Kurt Fisher Berks 2 Doug Musser Lan
caster 3 Nancy Townsend York
Reasons
1 Nancy Townsend York 2 Joanne Rishel
York 3 Kurt Fisher Berks
Junior Division
High Individual
1 Bradley Trowbridge York 2 Joyce Stough
York 3 Suzanne Bishard York
Teams
1 Bradley Trowbridge 2 Joyce Stough
Suzanne Bishard
Identification
1 Bradley Trowbridge 2 Joyce Stough
Suzanne Bishard
Judging
1 Bradley Trowbridge 2 Joyce Stough
Jennifer Calderazzo
David Naser
Performance
Sale Slated
STATE COLLEGE - The
Pennsylvania Department of
Agriculture’s Meat Animal
Evaluation Center is making final
preparations for the Bth Per
formance Tested Ram and In
vitational Ewe Sale, to be held
Saturday, August 2, at 4 p.m. The
sale will be held in the new Ag
Arena complex which is directly
adjacent to the MAEC. The sale
will feature approximately 50
performance tested rams and a
consignment of ewes
Through 70 days on test 74 rams
have an average daily gain of .89
Members of York's winning junior team
were (left) Elizabeth Bishard, Sandy
Eisenhour and Joyce Stough. Sandy was high
individual junior.
4-H Meats Judging
Mike Bankert, center, representing the host Godfrey
Brothers Meats, presented meats judging high individual
awards to Nancy Townsend and Bradley Trowbridge.
Cornell Conference to Discuss
Chicken
ITHACA, NY - How do hens
cooped up in wire cages in modern
poultry houses feel about their
living conditions? Can they be
made more comfortable? If so,
would they produce more eggs?
A Cornell University study at
tempting to answer these
questions, and the possibility of
improving immune systems in
chickens through genetic
engineering techniques are among
topics to be discussed at the 1986
Cornell Poultry Conference at the
Ithaca Holiday Inn July 30-31.
Open to poultry farmers
throughout the Northeast, the
annual event is sponsored by
Cornell Cooperative Extension and
the New York State College of
Agriculture and Life Sciences at
Cornell.
Tested Ram
for Aug. 2
pounds per day, with 25 of the rams
still gaining in excess of a pound a
day. On test are: eight junior
Dorsets, eight fall Dorsets, two
junior Rambouillets, one junior
Targhee, seven junior and one fall
Shropshires, two Columbias, one
junior Oxford, 11 junior Hamp
shires, one fall-born Hampshire, 31
junior Suffolks and one fall-bom
Suffolk.
For more information or to
request a catalog call Glenn
Eberly at (814)238-2527 or write to
the Meat Animal Evaluation
Center, 651 Fox Hollow Road, State
College, PA 16803. a■' J
Behavior
Cornell poultry scientist Dan
Cunningham, the conference
chairman, will discuss his chicken
behavior research and its im
plications for poultry production
and welfare at 8:30 a.m. Thursday,
July 31.
His talk will be followed by a
presentation on immunogenetics
and its potentials for poultry health
by Rodney Dietert, an associate
professor of immunogenetics at
Cornell. Still another study ex
plaining why farm-fresh eggs lose
weight after leaving the farm - a
legal issue confronting egg
producers - will be discussed by
Robert C. Baker, professor of food
science and chairman of Cornell's
Department of Poultry and Avian
Sciences.
For more information about the
conference, contact Dan Cun
ningham, 204 Rice Hall, Cornell
University, Ithaca, NY 14853-5601,
or call (607) 255-3168.