I * ItNIVEKSITY PARK K PA Y l^ igntasieiKi-ariiunq vol. 38 NO. 42 Three hundred members of the Lancaster County Holstein Association ride the Strasburg Railroad In front of Cherry-Crest Farm, Paradise, as part On Thursday night, Peter Hofflnes paraded his grand champion market steer, a 1,285-pound Maine Anjou/Angus/ Simmental cross named Tyrone, to a supreme animal championship at the Elizabethtown Fair. Judges Select Steer E-Town Supreme Animal ANDY ANDREWS Lancaster Farming Staff ELIZABETHTOWN (Lancas ter Co.) “I wasn’t expecting any of this,” said Peter Hoffines, as he marched his 1,285-pound champion market steer out of the ring. Moments before, the 18-year old son of Bob and Linda Hoffines, Marietta, was awarded supreme champion animal of the Elizabeth town Fair on Thursday evening with his 1,285-pound Maine Anjou/Angus/Simmental cross named Tyrone. Peter, who will be traveling in Four Sections November to help represent the state in FFA judging competition at the National FFA Convention, has won four years in a row at the fair. But this is his first supreme animal crown. Judge Kelley Shearer of the Pennsylvania Beef Council said the well-muscled steer “puts everything together in a real neat package” and will provide many “high-priced cuts.” Peter competed against an array of grand champion animals at the contest, including the swine champion shown by Linda Baum, (Turn to Pago A 32) Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 28. 1993 Lancaster Holstein Breeders Fellowship At Field Day EVERETT NEWSWANGER Managing Editor PARADISE (Lancaster Co.) —The combination of beauti fully pedigreed registered Hols teins on a meticulously manicured farm and a ride on the Strasburg Railroad that runs 900 feet from the bam, provided a well-received day of fellowship at the Lancaster County Holstein Field Day. After a train ride in the morning, the coun Sellers Brothers Share 4-H Swine Roundup JOYCE BUPP York Co. Correspondent THOMAS VILLE (York Co.) Let the pigs do the exercising, rather than the pig project owners. That’s the philosophy of York 4-H swine exhibitors Adam and Matt Sellers. And it’s an approach that apparently works. The Thomasville brothers brought their allowable limit of three pigs each to the county’s first summer roundup and sale, and carted off five first places. Adam. 13. then won the roundup championship with his 230-pound purebred Duroc market hog entry, purchased from White Oaks Farm. Matt, 17, earned the reserve champion honors with his 245-pound Duroc-crossbred entry, bred by Dave Myers, Wellsville. Hatfield Packing Company held out as final bidder on the two top pigs. Bdyer Ezra Good made the final $2.60 per pound price, offer on Adam’s champion, and won the reserve champion bid of the program for their annual field day held Thursday. Photo by Everett Newewenger, managing editor. ty breeders and their families came back to Jack and Donna Coleman’s Cherry-Crest Farm to judge three classes of dairy animals in compe tion for prizes, had a noon meal under the trees on the lawn, and lis tened to several speakers including Steve Kerr, CEO and executive secretary of the National Holstein Association. “I have always looked at the National Holstein Association as with a $1.40 per pound nod. “We keep our pigs on a hilled pasture,” said Matt of the brothers’ technique for growing lean, muscled, judge-pleasing swine. “The feed is at the top of the,hill and the shade is at the bottom. We let them do their own exercising.” Adam and Matt are the sons of Phil and Shirley Sellers, Thomas ville. Selection of their project pigs at the beginning of the season is a joint father-sons effort, according to Matt Jason Rankin, on the other hand, works with a “mud puddle” technique. The 18-year-old Abbottstown 4-H’er exhibited the champion pair, a matched set of purebred Durocs scaling in at 240-and 250-pound weights. His project hogs are walked regularly, and run through a sizeable puddle where they cool down while getting an additional workout on their muscles. (Turn to Page A 36) 60* Per Copy an organization of people who like to market animals,” Kerr said. “Yes, they like to breed animals, but all dairy farmers in a sense breed animals. But what really pulls our people together is the fact that they like to market genetics in one fashion or another. “I try to keep our eyes on what activities will help our members market,” Kerr said. “This has a spe cial meaning as margins on the farm become tighter. Most Hols-. tein breeders make plenty of milk, but they also look at their farm enterprise and ask where they can squeeze more out of their opera tions. Obviously that means selling genetics.” Kerr listed various changes in programs and circumstances at the National Holstein Association. They include the new qualified herd book; new methods of animal identification; a system in addition to index numbers to help rate ani mal pedigrees; additional informa tion on pedigrees; and new packag ing for sire summaries and herd mating programs. The new qualified herd book now has 7,000 animals registerd and is working along side the regis tered herd book. Kerr said quali fied animals are now being shown. Since the “lion’s share” of dairy animals is the grade population, hopefully, the qualified registry will generate a little interest in the grade cow herds. Canada has a dis tinction between purebreds and QE animals but they don’t make a big deal about it because they want to sell, animals. “With the dairy animal popula tion now down to 10 million and (Turn to Pago A22)- $19.75 Per Yeer
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