Big Bucks
ANDY ANDREWS
Lancaster Farming Staff
HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.)
Everyone knows that big fain
can pay big premiums for big
shows. But what can be bigger
than $l,OOO for a grand champion?
Try $l,lOO each for the junior
champion heifer and junior
champion bull at this year’s Sim
mental Capital Futurity Contest
The contest was held last week
at the Keystone International
Livestock Expo at die Farm Show
Complex.
In the junior division heifer
competition, Donald T. Virts won
champion heifer with a Bodacious
daughter out of a Broderick dam.
Virts represents Meadow Hill
Farm from Purcellvillc, Va.
In the junior division bull com
petition, Lee and Linda Synder
captured grand champion with
Harvest Brockie, S: X339U, D:
Harvest Lady D Tooo. Harvest
Plantation is out of Franklin, Ven
ango County.
Junior reserve champion heifer
and bull each paid S6(X). Reserve
champion of the junior division
bull competition was Meadow Hill
Farm, Purcellville, Va: Jack
Schultz of Salem, N.J., had the
reserve champion heifer, a Black
Powder daughter out of a Back In
Black dam in the junior division.
The Snyders started the Capital
Futurity Contest and have man-
For Big Winners At KILE’s Sim
aged it since the first show in 1990.
In this year’s Futurity, senior
champion bull paid $5OO and
reserve paid $3OO.
John Lenzer of Sewickly,
Allegheny County, showed'
Harvest Lenzner Princess, grand
champion heifer in the senior divi
sion. Grand champion senior bull
was won by Shoemaker’s Fort
Knox, owned by William Shoe
maker of Maple Cove Breeders,
Bedford County.
To participate, contestants had
to pay $lOO to nominate a farm and
an additional $125 per animal
exhibited. Exhibitors can “select
the best calves in May and pay to
nominate them,” said Barbara
Carlisle, Claysville, a Simmental
breeder with about 25 cows.
Carlisle indicated that die final
payment of $125 doesn’t have to
be paid by the exhibitor unless the
ty v Qi- ,ipi
Shown are Cliff Orley, Bret Barter, Paul Slayton, and Bill
Shoemaker, owner of Maple Cove Breedere, also Matthew
Miller and Natuehka McMlchael.
calves are scheduled to appear in
the contest.
Carlisle, who serves as junior
adviser to the Pennsylvania Junior
Simmental Association, assisted at
this year's Futurity contest
Contest winners are decided by
total overall points awarded during
judging. Three judges make then
decisions and place the points
(Cram 1-10) on individual index
cards. Points are tallied and the
highest wins.
The judges at this year’s contest
were Cliff Orley, Lebanon; Paul
Slayton, Bedford; and Bret Barber,
Michigan State University.
In all, there were a total of 13
exhibitors. In the junior contests,
there were a total of 20 heifers and
eight bulls at the start of the con
test. In the senior competition,
there were a total of four heifers
and one bull
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 14, 1996425
Simmental Futurity Mnlor grand champion heifer owned
by Lenzner Farms, Sewlckly. Shown are Leo Snyder and
■utuiitv show
Shown are Paul Slayton. Cliff Orley, Bret Baiter. Mitch Le»
narskl, and owner Donald Vlits, Meadow Hill Farm.
Junior grand champion bull at the Simmental Futurity.
Shown Is Lee Snyder, owner of Harvest Plantation,
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