A34-Lancast»r Farming, Saturday, January 13,1990
VERNON ACHENBACH, JR.
Lancaster Farming Staff
HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.)
A 13-year-old York County
girl’s Angus heifer is the 1990
Pennsylvania Sumpreme Champ
Kyle Rooker, Unlontown, keeps grand champion Polled
Hereford female, Miss Dawn, looking pretty for judges.
Assistant state agriculture secretary, Fred King, pre
sents rossette and grand champion plaque to Jay Temchak
for showing the top-ranked Charolals bull, Hill Top Cu]o,
owned by Jesse Haas, of Conneautville.
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SMR Crystals Forture ET. Dorothy Helstand holds th« roset
te and plaque. She and her husband Walter, of Manhelm,
Yearling Heifer Shines, Supreme Title To Angus
ion Beef.
From a mixed-sex field of 10
beef animals, representing five dif
ferent breeds of cattle, judges
chose Jennifer Calderazzo’s young
Angus, Personality Preference, to
wear the first state supreme
champion crown.
Tm very excited about it,” Cal
derazzo said, “especially since it’s
the first supreme (beef cattle) at the
Farm Show. And since it shows
my work paid off, it makes me
happy.”
Calderazzo said she didn’t have
any premonition that her heifer
was going to be named supreme.
“She’s so young and there were a
lot of older heifers. I just kept my
concentration on what I was
doing,” she said, adding that she
wasn’t sure what specific animal
attributes the judges were going to
be stressing when making their
decision.
Nevertheless, Calderazzo is no
stranger to center ring. She said the
11-month-old heifer has earned
other trophies and the heifer’s
mother. Prim Personality, has also
seen some ribbons and attention.
Last year, Prim Personality was
named Farm Show grand champ
ion. Jennifer has bred and owned
both champion animals.
She said that although she does
breed her own animals, “My
parents help me.”
A four-year Farm Show veteran
and the daughter of Dr. Joseph and
Sally Calderazzo, York RD 6, Jen
nifer is an eighth grade student at
Central York. “She gets a lot of
ribbing about it (raising Angus) at
school,” Mr. Calderazzo said, vis
ibly proud of his daughter’s
accomplishment. “She just lets it
run off her back like water.”
Despite some of the negative
comments coming from some
eight-grade peers, Jennifer said
raising Angus has its own social
rewards. “I’ve met a lot of friends
and it’s a nice industry to get into.”
However, Calderazzo said she
doesn’t necessarily hold the Angus
breed as superior to the Polled
Hereford, Simmental, Charolais,
or Limousin breeds.
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The Leib family Bob, Suzle, and their son Billy captured the 1990 sheep wool
breed supreme championship with their Ramboulllet yearling ewe Thursday night at the
farm show. On Wednesday, Billy, 9, won the Junior sheep breeding championship with
the yearling ewe, which went on to win the supreme championship. “The Ramboulllet Is
the backbone of the American sheep Industry, and we were careful In breed selection,
primarily for the sheep’s meat and muscle,” said Bob. Standing, left to right, are Julie
Maust, Pennsylvania Lamb and Wool queen; Boyd Wolff, state secretary of agriculture;
Billy Lelb; and Billy’s friend, Kelly Ziegler. See story next week.
Jennifer Calderazzo holds her banner proclaiming her
Angus heifer, Personality Preference, state supreme
champion beef.
gt _wiiampi —«in female,
DFLC BSC Willow, owned by Maple Lane Farms, in Enon
Valley.