A26-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 12, 1991
Youth Steer And
_ jycok -year-c junty winner,
and Boyd Wolff, Pennsylvania Agricultural Secretary, pre
sent the grand champion.
Kristin Chupp shows the reserve champion in the youth
steer show.
Jonathan Lori has the champion breeding Limousin.
Breeding Show Gets Attention
EVERETT NEWSWANGER
Managing Editor
HARRISBURG (Dauphin
Co.) —The youth that had both the
grand and reserve grand champion
at the Keystone International here
last fall, did it again. He had the
grand champion steer.
Nathan Claycomb, Alum Bank,
Bedford County, took the top hon
ors with' a Maine-Angue Angus
crossbred steer that won over all
the other crossbred and purebred
steers in the show. This was the
first year the purebred steers had
individual breed divisions.
“I have been winning all year,”
Claycomb told the mob of state
wide TV, radio and print reporters
that converged on the 12-year old,
sixth grade student at Chestnut
Ridge Elementry School. In addi
tion to KILE, Claycomb recorded
wins at the Bedford County Fair
and the Jack Pot show, Timonium,
MD.
As soon as Judge Ron Bolze,
Ohio State Beef Extension, named
the champion, the usual media
attention centered on the boy
who’s stature isn’t much more than
half as high as the steer’s eyes in
posed position. He was even shor
ter than that when he first started
showing 4-H steers, four years ago.
This reporter can see that Clay
comb has grown taller than at our
first meeting, but he still must look
under the steer’s chin to get the
judges eye.
Claycomb told reporters its a lot
of work, about two hours per day,
to prepare a steer for the show. He
said this champion won because
“he has a lot of muscle tone and a
good butt.”
Pennsylvania Agricultural Sec
retary Boyd Wolff presented the
banner to Claycomb.
Reserve champion honors went
to veteran showperson, Kristin
Chupp, New Holland, Lancaster
County. Chupp has had many win
ning steers including the reserve
grand champion at the Farm Show
two years ago.
Other champions named in the
steer show include: Vicki Hess,
Lancaster, champion lightweight;
Heidi Quanbeck, Lancaster,
reserve champion lightweight;
Heather Fuls, Cumberland,
champion middleweight: Shawn
Waltimyer, York, reserve champ
ion middleweight; Ed Livingston,
York, champion Angus; Kevin
Miller, champion Limousin; Kyle
Rooker, Fayette, champion
Hereford/Polled Hereford; Jodi
Dutrey, York, champion
Shorthorn.
Earlier in the day, the champions
for the youth breeding cattle show
were named. A list of the winners
and top placings in both the youth
Kevin and Kyle Rooker with the champion breeding
Polled Hereford.
Raymond Stough has the reserve champion Simmental.
steer and breeding cattle show
follows.
ANGUS
Summer Yearling. 1 Kristin Chupp, 2
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