Groff Repeats Win In
BY JACK RUBLEY
LANCASTER - After Wed
nesday’s performance at the
Lancaster County FFA Market
Hog Show, Lampeter’s Andy Graft
would do well to hire out as the
county’s FFA swine consultant.
After topping the hog show last
year in his first year of FFA
competition, Groff repeated the
performance this week.
The son of John and Sue Groff
campaigned his 240-pound gilt to
the heavyweight championship
before taking the grand champion
title.
Thus far his winning formula
appears to be a York-Duroc cross
bred on the home farm. “It’s a
205 lb
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1 Andy Groff 2 Jere Hoover 3 Jeff Byers
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Andy Groff sold his Lancaster Co. FFA Champion to Hatfield 1 2 Jere Hoover, 3 Jere Hoover
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good combination,” says the young
swine producer, who learned how
to evaluate show prospects from
his father, who runs a 120-sow
farrow-feeder pig operation. Both
this year’s and the 1985 champion
may well have been out of the
same boar, he says.
In choosing show pigs, like the 15
he’ll be showing this year, Groff
selects long pigs with “good
muscling” and width across the
back.
Judge Henry Gruber went with
another Duroc cross for his
reserve champion. The 240-pound
gilt followed Groff’s pig to the
number-two slot after being named
reserve heavyweight champion.
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Gruber’s choice was a surprise to
18-year-old Steve Heisey, the
reserve champion’s owner.
“I thought it would be just
another average pig,” Heisey
admitted. A second “average” pig
shown by Heisey was named
champion of the mediumweight
“That was a surprise,
too,” he said.
The son of J. Warren and
Beverly Heisey of Elizabethtown,
Steve bought his pig from Bain
bridge swine breeder Larry
Mullen. An FFA member for four
years, this was Heisey’s first
reserve championship win in the
county show.
In the sale that followed the
morning show, Hatfield Packing
topped the bidding for Groff’s
grand champion, offering a final
bid of $4. Hatfield was also the
sale’s most active buyer, going
home with 38 FFA hogs. Other
volume buyers included Leidy
Packing, Souderton, with 13 hogs;
White Oak Mills, Elizabethtown,
with 12 and Walter M. Dunlap and
Sons, Lancaster, with 10.
The sale averaged 70 cents a
pound, not including champions,
and the 19,225 pounds of pork sold
went for $14,504.
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Hatfield's Doug Clemens (left) also bought Steve Heisey's
reserve champion for $1.70.
230 lb
1 Jeff Wagner 2 Andy Groff 3 TimPfautz
235 lb
1 Jeff Byers 2 Andy Groff 3 Tobin Shank
Middleweight Champion
Steven Heisey
Middleweight Reserve
Laura Folker
2401 b
1 Andy Groff 2 Steven Heisey 3 TimPfautz
245 lb
1 Jeff Wagner 2 Heidi Fisher 3 Tyler Stump
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Heavyweight Champion
Andy Groff
Heavyweight Reserve
Steven Heisey
Grand Champion Hog
Andy Groff
Reserve Grand Champion
Steven Hetsey
Breeder Exhibitor Champion
Mike Phillips
Reserve Breeder Exhibitor
Tim Pfautz
Junior Fitting
1 Donald Wenger 2 Dale Barker 3 Laun
Folker
Junior Showmanship
1 Laura Folker 2 Andy Groff 3 Dave Metzler
Senior Fitting
1 Sheldon Heisey 2 Steven Unangst 3 Jel
Wagner
Senior Showmanship
1 Tim Pfautz 2 Jeff Byers 3 Jeff Wagner
Pen of Ten
Tobin Shank
Championship
Show Scheduled
STATE COLLEGE - The
Pennsylvania Holstein Association
Championship Show is set for
Thursday, September 4, 1986
beginning at 9:30 a.m. The show
will be the first major dairy show
to be held at the Penn State
Agricultural Arena in State
College, Pa. The judge will be John
Morris, well respected teacher and
judge from Frederick, Md-
This year the Championship
Show takes on added meaning as
points accumulated at the State
Spring Show, Regional Cham
pionship Show, and from this show
will be tallied to select All-
Pennsylvania Winners for 1986.
During the Championship Show,
the Keystone Three-Year-Old
Futurity banner will be awarded to
the top animal entered in the
Futurity in 1983. The winner of this
class will also receive a cash
award totaling one half of the entry
fees paid into the futurity.
Holstein enthusiasts are invited
to come to State College as
exhibitors or as spectators. En
tries for the show are due to the
Pennsylvania Holstein
Association, 839 Benner Pike, State
College, PA 16801 by August 20,
1986.
Judging Contest At
Holstein Championship
Show
The Pennsylvania Junior
Holstein Association will be
sponsoring a Judging Contest in
conjunction with the State
Championship Show set for Sep
tember 4, 1986 at the Agricultural
Arena, State College, PA.
The contest is for Junior Holstein
members from Pennsylvania. It
will consist of teams made up of
four members or individuals can
participate. There will be two
divisions, Juniors up to age 14 by
January 1 and Seniors, age 15-21.
There will be four classes to place,
two heifer classes and two cow
classes. The animals will be
judged right along with the class
during the show.
Teams can register by con
tacting the Pennsylvania Holstein
Office, 839 Benner Pike, State
College, PA 16801,814-234-0364. The
deadline for entering teams is