D4-Uncast«r Fanning Saturday, October 11,1986 7 Breeds Vie For Top Honors In Breeding Swine Show /ir Champion Duroc boar was shown by Allan Laucher, Ohio. John Strawbridge took numerous awards, including champion Yorkshire .boar (pictured), reserve York gilt, reserve Hamp boar and gilt and premier Hamp and York exhibitor. Scott Lazarus came out on top in Chester White boar show. Jeff Wippel, Ohio, had champion Poland China gilt. KILE Hosts National Duroc Show HARRISBURG - Each year the Keystone International Livestock Exposition hosts a national-level show in conjunction with its regular breeding swine com petitions. This year it was the Duroc breed’s turn, and nearly 40 exhibitors from eight states all pitched in to make this a highly competitive event. OhioDurocs turned out to be too strong for the host state’s entries, shouldering out all other states as well for both champion boar and gilt honors. In fact, the top two entries actually arrived at the Farm Show Complex in the same trailer. Exhibiting the grand champion Duroc boar was Allan Laucher, a Duroc breeder from Prospect, Ohio. “I thought he’d be very competitive,” said Laucher of his homebred March boar. One of the boar’s littermate gilts placed first at the Ohio State Fair this year. Although Laucher normally attends midwestem shows, this was his first time in a Penn sylvania showring. “We’ll keep coming,” he smiled after topping the 50-head boar show. For his grand champion gilt, judge Clyde Shaffer of Albany, Indiana, selected a homebred entry shown by Cy Prettyman of Morral, Ohio. Prettyman, an Ohio State freshman, trailered his pigs to Pennsylvania with fellow swine breeder Allan Laucher, who lives nearby. “I was real pleased,” said the Animal Science major, adding that his parents, Joe and Janet Pret tyman, were excited about the win. “They didn’t want me to come because I was going to miss school,” he said. This was the first time since 1974 that Jack Rodibaugh of Ren sselaer, Indiana, came to KILE, and his performance in the Duroc show proves that he hasn’t lost his touch. Rodibaugh returned to the Midwest with both reserve champion Duroc boar and gilt rosettes, as well as premier exhibitor honors. “This year we really hit with the red ones,” said Rodibaugh, who raises Chesters, Hamps and Yorks, as well. Other major vic tories for Rodibaugh this year included reserve grand boar at the Indiana State Fair and reserve Duroc boar at the National Barrow Show in Austin, Texas. Pennsylvania exhibitors were back in the spotlight in the Yorkshire show, with perennial winner John Strawbndge coming out on top in the boar show, and Stewartstown’s Mark Rehman winning the gilt competition. A familiar face at the Keystone, John Strawbridge began cam paigning show hogs in 1939, and has been coming to KILE every year since the show began three decades ago. This year Strawbridge took top honors with a Yorkshire boar that was also the York Fair’s champion and the Maryland State Fair’s reserve boar. KEEP The champion York gilt was a homebred entry owned by Mark Rehman. “I was really kind of surprised,” said Rehman after the show. “It’s been a long time since I had a grand champion.” This was the third year of KILE competition for Rehman, who showed the reserve champion gilt in 1984. The Berkshire Show belonged to Lebanon’s Dennis Grumbine, who took grand champion and reserve honors in the gilt and boar shows with a pen of four homebred lit termates. These four pigs were out of the same dam as the Farm Show’s champion Berkshire. “We’re pretty proud of them,” said Grumbine, who was obviously also proud of his sons, Daryl and Darren, who, he pointed out, BY JACK HUBLEY (Turn to Page 08) & The National Duroc show's champion gilt was shown by Cy Prettyman of Ohio. York County's Mark Rehman had champion Yorkshire gilt. lirville, exhibited champion Chester White gilt Jim Parlett, Hogs owned by Dennis Grumbine, Lebanon, swept champion and reserve Berkshire honors. Pictured are sons Daryl (left) and Darren Grumbine with champion gilt.
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