D2-Lancastar Farming Saturday, August 30,1986
Durocs Top Penn State Performance Tested Boar Sale
BY MARY MAXWELL
Centre Co. Correspondent
UNIVERSITY PARK - Duroc State, sold to Carl and Dennis
boars earned the highest indexes Cooper, Lenhartsville, for $1,250.
and brought the highest prices at The second highest selling boar,
the Performance Tested Boar Sale also a Duroc, was consigned by
at the Penn State Ag Arena last Kenneth Ketterer, Newville, and
Ken Ketterer (left) had second highest selling boar and sold
the Duroc to Bruce Lemmon and son, Bruce, Jr.
LIVESTOCK
Swine Progeny Test Nominations Due
BY MARY MAXWELL
Centre Co. Correspondent
UNIVERSITY PARK -
Nominations are still being ac
cepted for the remaining pen space
in the Swine Progeny Test at the
Meat Animal Evaluation Center on
the Penn State campus.
A sire-progeny group consists of
at least six pigs from six or more
sows by one sire. According to
Glenn Everly, Evaluation Center
director;' not more than two sows
may be full sisters or dam
daughter combinations and not
more than three pigs from any one
sow will be permitted in a sire
progeny group. The progeny group
may be any combination of
barrows or gilts.
All pigs must be 80 days of age or
less when delivered to the Center
and their weight per day of age
must be between .60 and 1.20
pound. The delivery period is Sept.
22 to Nov. 17 and the test period
Sept. 29 to March 1.
A nomination fee of $5 is
required for each pig, but this will
be refunded when the pigs are
delivered. Upon delivery, the
Wool, Mohair Prices Announced
WASHINGTON - Support
prices for wool and mohair for 1986
marketings are $1.78 per pound for
shorn wool and $4.93 per pound for
mohair, a U.S. Department of
Agriculture official has an
nounced. In 1985 the support prices
were $1.65 for wool and $4.43 for
mohair.
Milton E. Hertz acting ad
ministrator of USDA’s Agriculture
stabilization and Conservation
Service said pulled wool will
continue to be supported at a level
comparable to the support price
for shorn wool through payments
week
The top boar, consigned by Penn
consignor will also receive 75
percent of the value of the feeder
pigs based on market reports of the
previous week.
The pigs will be slaughtered at
about 220 pounds filled weight and
carcass measurements taken. The
animals will be evaluated on rate
of gain and feed efficiency and the
carcass on color, firmness and
percent of ham and loin yielded.
Results of progeny tests are
valuable to pure-bred as well as
commercial breeders. If a boar is
siring undesirable offspring, the
breeder should eliminate him from
his breeding herd. And on the other
hand, if a boar’s progeny excels in
one or more traits, these factors
are identified for the breeder. Data
from the test will also aid the
breeder in selling littermates, half
brothers and half-sisters of the
tested stock.
For more information on the
upcoming Swine Progeny Test
contact Glenn Eberly, Meat
Animal Evaluation Center, 651 Fox
Hollow Road, State College, PA
16803. Phone: 814-238-2527.
on unshorn lambs.
Shorn wool payments will be
based on a percentage of each
producer’s ret-irn from sales. The
percentage will be that required to
raise the national average price
received by all producers for shorn
wool in 1986 up to the support price
of $1.78 per pound, Hertz said. In
1986 shorn wool prices are ex
pected to average around 70 cents
per pound compared to about 63
cents per pound in 1985.
Mohair payments will be
calculated in a manner similar to
wool. Hertz said projected prices
indicate payments may be
necessary for 1986 marketings.
Mohair prices during 1986 are
expected to average around $3.50
per pound compared to $3.45 in
1985. Mohair is being supported at
85 percent of the percent of parity
at which shorn wool is supported,
which is the statutory minimum
price.
sold to Bruce Lemmon, Newburg,
for $1,175.
The two top boars earned in
dexes of 139 and 138, respectively.
The boar performance index ranks
an animal with other test animals,
regardless of breed. This ranking
is based on average daily gain on
test, the feed efficiency of the pen
(four boars by one sire from one
owner), and an ultrasonic scan of
back fat. The index of 139 earned
by this year’s top boar means he is
39 percent better than the average
boar tested.
The boars were scored for
soundness and underline by a
committee, which used a scale
recommended by the National
Swine Improvement Federation.
The Coopers also bought three
other boars for their farrow-to
finish operation near Allentown.
“We’re regular buyers here at
the Performance Test Sale,”
reported Dennis Cooper who is in
partnership with his brother, Carl,
and father, Lloyd. “Last year we
also bought the top-indexing boar
and we like boars from the Penn
State testing station for use in our
300-sow commercial operation.”
The sale totaled $21,550 for the 38
performance tested boars. The 16
Durocs sold for $10,525 with an
average price of $658. The 15
Yorkshires totaled $7,775 and
Huntingdon Juniors Sell Fair Champions
BY BETSY STITT
Blair Co. Correspondent
HUNTINGDON - Junior
livestock exhibitors at the Hun
tingdon County Fair ended an
eventful week with their annual
sale on Aug. 15.
Market hogs, lambs, wethers
and steers were put on the auction
block by auctioneer Mark Click.
Show champions were named
earlier in the week.
Kristie Espy, Spruce Creek,
exhibited the grand champion
steer. Her 1,430-pound Charolois
sold to Miller’s Diner, owned by
Paul and Delores Knepp, for $2.50
per pound for a total pricetag of
$3,575.
A 1,165-pound Angus, shown by
Gary Morgan Jr., Orbisonia,
captured the reserve grand
championship and sold for $1.30
per pound. Penn’s Pride Meats
bought Gary’s steer for a total
price of $1,526.
Steve Fouse, James Creek, sold
his crossbred, lightweight
champion to Allensville Planing
Mill, represented by Leonard
Yoder, for 90 cents per pound.
The sale’s 45 steers averaged 71
cents per pound.
In the market hog show, David
Brown exhibited the grand
champion. Penn’s Pride Meats
bought the 265-pound champion for
$5 per pound or a total bill of $1,325.
Penn’s Pride also bought John
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John Eastman, right, of McDonald's Restaurant, paid
$5 90 per pound for Brad Horning’s grand champion lamb.
Carl, (left) Dennis Jr., and Dennis Cooper of Hillside Acres,
Lenhartsville, took home the top-selling boar. Consigned by
Penn State, the Duroc earned highest test index.
averaged $5lB. Three Hampshires
sold for a total of $1,425 and an
average of $475. Two Lancraces
total $1,075, averaging $538 and a
Bershire and Poland China sold for
$375 each.
“It was a good sale,” concluded
Kristie Espy, left, sold her grand champion steer to Miller's
Diner represented by Jeannette and Doug French for $2.50
per pound.
Shultz’s reserve champion hog,
weighing in at 200 pounds, for $3
per pound.
Without the champions, the
market hog show averaged 77
cents per pound.
Brad Horning, Huntingdon, sold
his grand champion lamb, a
registered Hampshire named
Snoopy, to Huntingdon’s Mc-
Donald’s Restaurant. Bidding for
McDonald’s Restaurant, John
Eastman paid $5.90 per pound for
Glenn Eberly, Meat Animal
Evaluation Center director. “The
38 boars sold for an average price
of $567, a higher average than in
recent years.”
Harry Bachman, Annville, was
sale auctioneer.
Brad’s 120 pound lamb. Mc-
Donald’s Restaurant donated the
lamb to be sold again with the
proceeds going to the 4-H Lamb
Club. It resold for $1.50 per pound.
Unitas Bank bought Mark
Miller’s reserve grand champion
lamb for $4 per pound. The 120
pound lamb sold for a total of $4BO.
It was also donated to be sold again
and brought $1,40 per pound on the
second selling.
The 4-H Lamb Club raised a
lamb and donated the proceeds
from its sale to the Tina Shultz
Fund. Tina was the 1985 Hun
tingdon County Dairy Princess
who lost her battle with cancer
earlier this year. She was a
member of the 4-H Lamb Club. The
lamb sold for $2 per pound.
The sale’s 4-H lambs sold for an
average of 11.04, excluding the
champions.
Denise Bollinger, Mill Creek,
sold her grand champion wether
goat, weighing in at 85 pounds, to
Kevin Delaney for $4.60 per pound.
Three goats sold at the sdle for an
average of $1.63 per pound.
Several politicians attended the
livestock sale, including Secretary
of Agriculture Richard Grubb,
Sen. Samuel Hayes who had two
sons, Lee and Erick, exhibiting
lambs at the fair, and Penn State
Dean of Agriculture Lamartine
Hood. After viewing the sale, these
politicians commented that it was
encouraging to see young people so
involved in agriculture.