ALLENTOWN - The sale of
grand champion swine, lambs and
steers during the Pennsylvania
Farm Show is not for penny-wise,
pound-foolish, penny-pinching
buyers.
Buyers have paid nearly $lOO,OOO
for 18 champion swine, lambs and
steers sold during the past six
Farm Shows.
The Sale of Champions at the
1987 Pennsylvania Farm Show is
scheduled for Friday, January
16th, at 10 a.m. in the small arena
of the Farm Show Complex.
In a change of format, the
champion and reserve champion
market swine, lambs and steers
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Farm Show Market Livestock Sales Change Format
will be displayed and sold at
auction at one time in the show
ring, according to Charles Itle,
assistant to the Farm Show
director.
Itle said the new format will
generate more enthusiasm from
the buyers and more exposure for
the junior exhibitors. The change
to a combined sale of champions
was recommended by the Junior
Show and Sale Committee and
approved by the Farm Show
Commission at their April
meeting.
Itle estimated that 100 steers, 180
hogs and 125 lambs will be sold
throughout the .day. The junior
/%
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market swine sale will follow the
champions at 11:15 a.m., with the
junior market lambs at 1 p.m. and
junior steers at 2 p.m.
The record price for junior
market swine was set in 1981 when
Hatfield Packing of Montgomery
County paid $19.50 a pound or
$4,680 to Michelle Banker! of
Hanover, Adams County. Last
year’s champion owner, Todd
Bennecoff of Kutztown, Lehigh
County, received $lO a pound or
$2,360 from Hatfield Packing for
his champion.
The record was set in 1984 for the
grand champion market lamb.
Susan Falvey of Bedford received
f ' \ >837 1967
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