Farm VERNON ACHENBACH JR, Lancaster Fanning Staff HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.) The sale of market ani mals at the 1998 Pennsylvania Farm Show raised a total of $157,149.22 for the youth who sold the three species of livestock lambs, swine and steer at auction. Included in the auction sale total was a record $27,000 price paid for the grand champion market steer, reported in Lancaster Farming last week. Bill Campbell, CEO of Boss's Steak and Sea House a long time supporter of the 4-H and FFA programs, and youth with projects, paid $27,000 for the grand champ ion steer owned by Tim Kosiorek of Wattsburg, breaking his 1996 $26,000 record-setting price paid for the grand champion steer. For those youth whose Farm Show market animal didn't make the cut to be sold at auction, they received the lower, straight packer price, not included in the sale averages. While largely unnoticed by the regular media crews annually From the left, Glen end Sue Sansom of Kessler's Inc. In Lemoyne, hold the Junior market lamb grand champion banner, and stand with co-buyers of the champion, from the Agri-Lending Group of Lebanon Valley National Bank, while Heidi Svonavec •hows her grand champion lamb, and state Secretary of Agriculture Samuel Hayes Jr. stands with them on the right. Representing LVNB, from the left, are Bob Donaldson, Mike Flrestine, Sean McKinney, Travis Weriey, John Eaton and Jerry Bollinger. From the Ml, buyer Robb Harris, district manager tor Hoss’s Steak and Saa House Inc., stands with stats Secretary to Agriculture Samuel Hayes Jr., the mascot of the / restaurant chain, Hoss Man. Hoss representative Betsey Lehman, while Katie Hum-, met holds the halter of her reserve grand champion. Show Market Livestock Auction Totals attracted to the sale of champions event, the Farm Show exhibitor who showed the reserve grand champion swine made an offer of a free pig to one of her fellow Farm Show swine exhibitors whose ani mal was passed over for sale at auction. Janine Winebark, daughter of Kenneth and Janet Winebark of Myerstown, has offered a free, top quality genetics market swine piglctte to the winner of a contest. Winebark’s swine, of course, was included in the overall auction total, according to details released this week from the Farm Show administration. While prices paid on the other champions didn't break records, they all are inflated and go to help youth raise money in the hope they will use it to further their own advancement in learning and knowledge. The total paid on the six champ ion animals the grand and reserve grand of each of the three species was $38,750. Without including the champ ions, the average price paid on the other 57 steers auctioned was $955, or 78 cents per pound, for a total of $54,435. The average price paid on the 120 non-grand champion market lambs sold at auction was $241.33, or $2.05 per pound, for a total of $28,959.60. The average price paid on the 161 non-grand champion market swines was $217.42, or 89 cents per pound, for a total of $35,004.62. As background to understand ing Winebark’s offer of a show pig to raise for the 1999 Farm Show, the way such a livestock sale is generally conducted is that one to several meat packing businesses will offer to pay a set price for all livestock not sold through auction. The packers will often, as in the case of the Farm Show sale and most others sales, offer to buy any of the animals at market price saving supporters the concern and bother of taking possession of the animal, when support is all that is desired; and offering a reasonable price to youth whose animals may not quite measure up. Because of the tremendous vol ume of youth with swine projects, it has been considered too time consuming and meaningless to bring the majority of the swine into the ring to be sold. The top 160 or so are sold in the auction ring, while the rest ate sold to the packer. There were 408 market swine entered this year. If all those entered actually were shown in the ring and then sold, that means that about24B youth received the pack er rate for their animals. There were 69 market steers entered, and 204 market lambs. Allowing for no-shows, that means there were still a few youth who didn’t receive the added financial benefit of having their Farm Show animal at auction. While this seems fair to most adults, Winebark said she noticed that some of the youth whose swine didn’t make the cut to be sold at auction seemed somewhat disheartened. Further, she knows that perfect care of a market animal can not overcome poor genetics, and that good genetics can be expensive to purchase or otherwise take years to develop. Having shown the reserve grand From the toft, Host Man stands with Janlns Wlnebark, •xhlbhor of ths rsssivs grand champion market swlns, while buyer Bill Campbell, CEO of Hoes’ Steak and Sea tjpuae holds the banner, and Is Joined by state Secretary of Agriculture Samuel Hayes Jr. Buyer of the immvi grand champion marital lamb, Greg Klrftham with OW Guard Inauranca holds tha banner, while Luke Svonavec holds the champion, and la Joined by stats Secretary of Agriculture Samuel Hayes Jr. $157,000 champion market hog this year, she expressed her concern that those whose animal didn't make the cut to be sold at auction might not return to compete at the Farm Show next year. During her turn at the annua] last-day-of Farm Show sale of champions event, it was announced that she is offering a chance for those other youth to benefit from the Hampshire gene tics she has in her swine. She said she wants to offer one piglette out of an anticipated litter from the sow that bore her 1998 reserve grand champion. Eligibility is restricted to those 248 or so youth whose 1998 Farm Show junior market swine entry didn’t make the cut for auction. What they have to do to win is write a two-page, typewritten, double-spaced entry on: “Why I would like to be consid ered as the caretaker of this market pig, and how I would plan to care far it. ” Included with the cntiy should (Turn to Pago A 24)
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