Winegardner Hog Captures Grand Champion Honors
BEDFORD After watching
the winner’s circle at the Bedford
County Fair from afar last year,
15-year-old Steve Winegardner of
Manns Choice RDI stepped into it
this year with a 240-lb. barrow
chosen grand champion market
hog.
Judge Nelson Beam, Chester
County commercial hog breeder
and finisher, said as he selected his
champion, “I wanted the mus
cling, the leanness, the soundness
and the structure we need in the
swine industry today.” He added
that his selections were total pack
ages with the appearance of
freshness.
Winegardner’s 5'A -month-old
crossbred pig came from Bedford
Valley Farm, Manns Choice RDI,
where the 4-H’er works under
Manager David Martin. Two of the
other seven blue ribbon winners
vying for the top prize, shown by
Matthew Hillegass of Manns
Choice RD 1, also were bred at
Bedford Valley Farm.
A 223-lb. homebred barrow
raised and exhibited by Richie
Emerick of Schellsburg earned the
Schellsburg Beef Takes Supreme Championship At Bedford
BEDFORD An April junior
yearling Polled Hereford heifer, S
& S Dream boat Nan, carried
11-year-old Heather Mcßee of
Schellsburg to the supreme
championship in junior beef breed
ing judging at the Bedford County
Fair here.
Within the Polled Hereford
show, Mcßee’s entry nudged out
class competitors exhibited by her
fellow members of the Shawnee
Lakers 4-H Club, Michael Shankle
Beth Barkley of Manns Choice (left) shows off her champion market lamb at
the Bedford Fair, a 114-lb. crossbred. Earning the reserve champion was
Gwendolyn Gray of Schetlsburg with a 117-lb. homebred Suffolk.
Penn State Lab Features Small Grains Research
UNIVERSITY PARK Pen
nuda hull-less oats, which have
potential for both animal and
human consumption, and Pennco
winter barley, a variety with excel
lent yield, were featured on tours
of Penn State’s Southeastern Field
Research Laboratory in June.
Pennuda is a hull-less oat that
has potential as a supplemental
feed for livestock and could also
make cereal processing simpler.
“The hull-less oat is a more con
centrated package of nutrients,”
explains Elwood Hatley, professor
of agronomy at Penn State. “In
some cases, the hull-makes up as
reserve grand champion banner.
While the three youths all are
students at Chestnut Ridge High
school, Winegardner, 15, and Hill
egass, 12, belong to the Shawnee
Lakers 4-H Club, and Emerick, 15,
is a member of the Chestnut Ridge
FFA.
Class placings, in descending
order, included:
Class 1 - Julie Bechtel of New
Enterprise, Winegardner, Judy
Anderson of Schellsburg RD 1;
Class 2 - Mike Beach of New
Enterprise, Lynea Keith of Roar
ing Spring RD 1, Jill Anderson of
Bedford RD 1.
Class 3 - Emerick, Shane Tho
mas of New Enterprise RD 1,
Kegg; Class 4 - Joe Imler of New
Enterprise RD 1, Danielle Pepple
of New Enterprise RD 1, Kirk
Diehl of Bedford RD 4; Class 5 -
Hillegass, Kevin Guyer of New
Enterprise RD 1, Ryan Emerick of
Schellsburg.
Class 6 - Hillegass, Jenny Beach
of New Enterprise, John Bechtel of
New Enterprise: Class 7 - Wine
gardner, Jennifer Rosenthal of
Osterburg, Kegg.
of Schellsburg and Steven Fritz of Kevin Miller of Bedford.
Manns Choice. Then competing The reserve grand champion
against all other blue ribbon win- Hereford female, shown by
ners, Mcßee and “Dream’ ’ gained Tawnya Wolfhope of Schellsburg,
the Polled Hereford female grand stood in as reserve supreme
championship. ( champion.
In the search for the supreme Other purple prizes went to:
banner, the Polled Hereford over- ciaycomb. reserve champion
came an Angus entry of Nathan Angus; Merrilee Werner of
Ciaycomb of Alum Bank, the Sim- Schellsburg, reserve champion
mental champion exhibited by Simmental; Jim Fisher of Bedford,
Matthew Knee of Bakers Summit reserve champion Limousin,
and the Limousin leader owned by j n - class beef breeding
much as 25 percent of kernel
weight. Certain types of livestock
can’t handle that extra fiber.” A
hull-less oat could also eliminate a
processing step in oat cereals.
Pennco winter barley, deve
loped and released by Penn State,
performed well throughout Pen
nsylvania and the United States in
all areas where winter barley is
grown. “What sets Pennco apart
from other winter barleys is its
excellent yield,” says Hatley. “It
also has good winter hardiness,
standability and disease
tolerance.”
Steve Winegardner of Manns Choice (left) nudged his 240-lb. barrow to the
championship at the Bedford County Fair while Richie Emerick of Schellsburg
campaigned a 223-pounder to the reserve grand championship.
About 80 people, including
industry representatives and far
mers, attended the research lab
tour. The event focused on inten
sive management technologies for
wheat and winter barley, such as
growth regulators, fertilizers, fun
gicides.and herbicides, and how
they can be used for the greatest
economic return.
The Southeastern Field
Research Laboratory, one of three
field research laboratories oper
ated by Penn State’s College of
Agriculture, is located two miles
northwest of Landisville.
judging Shoemaker Simmentals of
Buffalo Mills was the big winner,
showing the champion and reserve
champion female, champion bull
and first prize junior and senior
gcts-of-sire. Diana Temcik of Cor
aopolis stood in with the reserve
champion bull.
John Hausner of The Plains,
Va., judged the offering.
Other placings:
Angus-junior heifer calf, 1.
Claycomb.
Senior heifer calf -1. Claycomb.
Polled Hereford - Junior Heifer
calf, 1. Fritz, 2. Wolfhope, 3.
Samuel.
Senior heifer calf - 1. Shankle,
2. Fritz.
Summer yearling heifer, 1
Mcßee.
Junior yearling heifer, 1
Mcßee, 2. Shankle, 3. Fritz.
Holstein
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chosen senior and grand champ.
Diehl’s junior two-year-old, C.C.
Captain’s Sashette, got the judge’s
nod as reserve senior and reserve
grand. An intermediate yearling
earned the junior champion honor
for Diehl. Bill Snider of Bedford
took the remaining purple, the
reserve junior champion, for a
summer yearling.
In a single-family Brown Swiss
show, Jeanine Chesney of Roaring
Spring edged Shellytown King
Oda, a senior yearling, into the
junior and grand championships.
Jeanine’s sister. Chamotte, took
her intermediate yearling, Gerber
Paul Nell Fran, to the reserve
junior and reserve grand honors.
Holstein
Junior heifer calf -1 Robbie Over, 2 Mohr,
3 Nicole Over
Intermediate calf - 1 Joe Kelly, 3 Ange
lique McDonald
Senior Calf-1 Mohr, 2 Jodi Hite, 3 James
Over
Junior yearling - 1 Jim Carman, 2 Ann
Baker, 3 Jennifer Hit?
Intermediate yearling -1 Julie Bechtel, 2
Mmday Replogle, 3 Jodi Hite
Senior yearling - 1 Bill Snider
Senior two-year-old - 1 Mohr
Three-year-old -1 Baker, 2 James Over
Four-year-old - 1 Mohr
Aged Cow • 1 Alicia McDonald a
Daughter and Dam - 1 Mohr, 3 Alicia
McDonald
Guernsey
Junior calf - 1 Kristi Snider, 2 Clark, 3
Angelique McDonald
Intermediate Calf - 1. Scott Code, 2 Juli
Snider, 3. Clark.
Senior Calf -1 Ryan McDonald, 2 Alicia
Senior yearling heifer, 1.
Wolfhope.
Two-year-old, 1. Fritz.
Simmental-Junior heifer calf, 1
Shoemaker.
Senior heifer calf, 1. Tepsic.
Summer yearling heifer 1
Knee, 2. Donald Lafferty.
Junior yearling heifer 1
Shoemaker.
Senior yearling heifer 1
Shoemaker.
Two-year-old 1. Werner, 2.
Knee
Junior bull calf 1. Werner.
Senior bull calf 1. Shoemaker,
2. Tepsic, 3. Shoemaker.
Limousin-Summer yearling
heifer 1. Kevin Miller.
Junior yearling -1. Brian Miller,
2. Fisher.
Two-year-old 1. Fisher.
Junior bull calf - 1. Fisher.
Champion
McDonald, 3 Joe Caiman
Summer yearling - 1 Corle, 2 Angelique
McDonald
Junior yearling - 1 Clark, 3 Melissa
McDonald
Intermediate yearling - 1 Carman
Senior yearling - 1 Brandon Snider
Junior two-year-old - 1 Clark, 2 Brandon
Snider, 3 Clark
Senior two-year-old - Clark
Three-year-old -1 Juli Snider, 2 Brandon
Snider, 3 Clark
Four-year-old - 1 Angelique McDonald
Aged Cow -1 Clark, 2 Melissa McDonald
Daughter and Dam - 1 Clark, 3 Galen
McDonald
Red and White
Junior calf -1 Robert Lynch, 2 Jim Truax
3 -.Gillian Johnson
Senior calf - 1 Lynch, 3 Kimberly Truax
Summer yearling -1 Robbie Ickes, 2 Kim
berly Truax
Junior yearling - 1 Robbie Ickes, 2 Kim
berly Truax, 3 Jim Truax
Intermediate yearling - 1 Bryan Ickes
Senior yearling - 1 Julie Truax
Junior two year old - 1 Lynch
Four-year-old - 1 Kimberly T-uax
Aged Cow - 1 Julie Truax
Jersey
Junior calf - 1 Pheasant
Senior calf - 1 Joe Kelly, 2 Pheasant
Intermediate yearling - 1 Janelle Koontz
Senior yearling - 1 Pheasant
Junior two year old - 1 Pheasant
Senior two year old 1 Pheasant
Three-year old - 1 Pheasant
Four-year old - 1 Pheasant
Ayrshire
Summer yearling - 1 Bill Snider
Intermediate yearling - 1 Diehl
Junior two year-old - 1 Diehl
Senior two-year-old - 1 Diehl
Brown Swiss
Intermediate calf -1 Charlotte Chesney, 2
Richard Chesney
Senior calf - 1 Richard Chesney
Junior yearling - 1 Richard Chesney
Intermediate yearling - 1 Charlotte
Chesney
Senior yearimg - 1 Jeamne Chesney