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67 Qualify For States At Southeast District Dairy Show
VERNON ACHENBACH JR.
Lancaster Farming Staff
NORTH CORNWALL (Leba
non Co.) Sixty-seven dairy
cattle representing die five major
dairy breeds qualified for state
competition during the Southeast
District Dairy Show.
Tuesday at the Lebanon Area
Fairgrounds.
That number of cattle represents
slightly more than half of the
entries in the district show the
first of 12 qualifying shows
statewide scheduled to be held
through the end of August
Broken down according to
breed, 18 Ayrshires, 13 Brown
Swiss, four Guernsey, 24 Hols
teins, and eight Jerseys qualified
Tuesday to advance to the state
youth dairy show set to be held at
the state Farm Show Complex on
Sept 22, during the Pennsylvania
All-American Dairy Show week
(Sept 22-25).
The Southeast District Show is
sort of a misleading name, because
there is to be another Southeast
District Show at the Schuylkill
County Fairgrounds on August 22.
The state youth dairy qualifying
shows used to be separated accord
ing to youth organization FFA
and 4-H. The first Southeast Dis
trict show used to be restricted to
FFA members, while the second
was restricted to 4-H members.
Statewide, there were six dis
trict shows for 4-H and six for
FFA, with restrictions on where
showing could be done.
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years there has been a reduction in
the number of FFA and 4-H dairy
members across the state.
As opportunities to attend
shows diminished, it was decided
that a change needed to be made in
order to maximize die opportuni
ties for youth to participate.
In addition, the final state show
didn’t acknowledge any distinc
tion between 4-H and FFA. Last
year, for the first time, new rules
came into effect which now allow
any 4-H or FFA dairy youth to
enter and compete in any of the 12
district qualifing shows across the
state.
Constant in the state’s youth
dairy showing program is the fact
that judges of die shows not only
place animals, but select those ani
mals that they feel are of strong
enough quality to compete at the
state show.
The awarding of a blue ribbon,
not the placing of the animal in the
show, determines the eligibility for
state competition. For that reason,
the show placing results do not of
themselves indicate eligibility for
the state show.
Tuesday’s Holstein judge was
Scott Cooper, a Holstein breeder
firm York County, while the judge
for the colored breeds was Thomas
Arrowsmith, a Jersey breeder from
Lancaster County.
Holstein
Li the Holstein breed. Timothy
Vail of Lebanon showed the senior
and grand champion and the
jnon Jrty Dairy Princess Melinda Bomgardner stands with
Timothy Vail, who holds the halter of his grand champion Holstein of the 42nd South*
east District youth dairy show; Kendra Reist, who holds the halter of the reserve grand
champion for Vail; Dustin Horning, who holds the halter of his Junior champion; and
Amy Moyer, who holds the halter of her reserve Junior champion.
reserve senior and reserve grand
champion.
His grand champion, also
named best bred and owned, was a
senior 3-year-old, Dalec-Brcd
Counselor Posie. His reserve
grand champion was an aged cow,
C Pineriver Jethro Gretta.
The junior champion Holstein
was a summer yearling, Turnpike-
View Charles Pretty, a bred and
owned animal shown by Dustin
Homing, of Stevens.
, The reserve junior champion
Holstein was a winter (intermedi-
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Hannah, owned by Amy Moyer, of
Womelsdorf.
Ayrshire
In the Ayrshire show, the senior
and grand champion, as well as the
best bred and owned animal was a
junior 3-year-old, Dreamnol Tri
dent’s Minerva, owned by Craig
Nolan, of Cochran ville.
Craig also showed the junior
champion, a Call (senior) calf,
Wentworth-Farm Sweet Vidalia.
Craig’s younger sister Rebecca
showed the reserve senior and
reserve grand champion, also a
junior 3-year-old, S&M Ayr IRS
Opal.
The reserve junior champion
Ayrshire was a summer yearling,
Maulfair-Acres Trident Carmel,
bred and owned by Daryl Maul
fair. of Jonestown.
Alicia Mase, of Lebanon,
showed both grand and reserve
grand champion Brown Swiss,
both of which are bred and owned
animals.
Her junior 2-year-old, Meadow
Hill Patrick Alana was named
Brown Swiss
(Turn to Pagt A 26)