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
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