A32-Lanc«»ter Farming, Saturday, October 17, 1998
Manheim Farm Show Sale Fetches Premium Prices For Exhibitors
ANDY ANDREWS
Lancaster Fanning Staff
MANHEIM (Lancaster Co.)
One-hundred sixty-six animals
went on the Manheim Farm Show
auction block amid torrential
downpours late last week at the
fairgrounds.
All week long exhibitors,
judges, and spectators had to
endure monsoon-like rains
throughout the fair, bringing
record one-day rainfalls to the
area.
But the Friday night sale fea
tured the calls of auctioneer Bob
Wolgemuth echoing throughout
the livestock bam.
Marlin Becker, one of the sale
coordinators, noted to the specta
tors, buyers, and friends at the sale
that all four champions of the dif
ferent species at the farm show
were all first-time winners.
“That’s kind of unusual,” he said.
But the inclement weather
didn’t put a stop to the bids. In all,
$97,388.50 was raised at the sale,
including champions and resales.
Grand champion goat, weighing
70 pounds, was exhibited by
Celeste Landis, Lititz, and sold for
$4.50 a pound to Manheim Auto
Auction. Fulton Bank purchased
the reserve champion, a 78-pound
goat exhibited by Amanda Grube,
Elizabethtown, for $5 a pound.
In all, 17 head of goats were
sold, raising $5,381.50.
Tracy Zimmerman, Manhejm,
exhibited her 250-pound grand
champion swine at the Manheim
Farm Show. Her hog sold to Man
heim Auto Auction for $4.75 a
pound. Reserve champion swine at
Manheim, a 263-pound hog also
shown by Tracy, sold to EMM
Sales and Service for $4 a pound.
Altogether, 100 hogs sold for
$48,294.25.
Travis Donough, Manhcim,
exhibited the 129-pound sale
lamb, which sold for $3.25 a pound
to Jacob H. Ruhl Insurance. The
119-pound reserve sale lamb,
exhibited by John Tracy, Eli
zabethtown, sold for $3.25 a pound
to Fulton Bank.
Thirty-four lambs sold for a tot
al of $11,283.20.
Grand champion steer, weigh
ing 1,298 pounds and exhibited by
Ryan Groff, Manheim, sold for
$2.50 per pound to Manheim Auto
Auction. Before the sale, Jessica
Stoltzfus, who showed the reserve
champion, was picked as home
coming queen, so instead, the
1,293-pound Shorthorn/Angus
crossbred was paraded by Travis
Donough and sold for $1.50 a
pound to Hoss’s Steak and Sea
food House.
There were 17 steers sold for a
total of $32,429.55.
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Grand champion lamb at Manheim, exhibited by Travis
Donough, right, was purchased for $3.25 a pound by Jacob
H. Ruhl Insurance. From left, Nevin Dourte, representing
Ruhl Insurance; Sarah Zurln, Manheim fair queen; and
Travis.
Ryan Groff exhibited the grand champion steer at Man
heim, weighing 1,298 pounds, which sold for $2.50 a pound
to Manheim Auto Auction. From left, Ryan Groff, Greg Geh
man, of the auction; and Sarah Zurln, farm show queen.
Reserve champion steer at Manheim, exhibited by Jessi
ca Stoltzfus and shown here by Travis Donough, center,
was sold for $1.50 a pound to Hoss’s Steak and Seafood.
From left, Rob Billet, district manager for Hoss’s; Travis;
and Sarah Zurln, farm show queen.
Reserve champion swine at Manheim, a 263-pound hog
shown by Tracy Zimmerman, left, sold to EMM Sales for $4 a
pound. From left, Tracy; Jack Conrad, EMM Sales represen
tative; and Sarah Zurln, farm show queen.
Tracy Zimmerman, center, exhibited her 250-pound
grand champion swine at the Manheim Farm Show last
week. Her swine sold to Manheim Auto Auction for $4.75 a
pound. From left, Sarah Zuiin, farm show queen; Tracy; and
Grand champion goat at the Manheim Farm Show was
exhibited by Celeste Landis, center, and sold to for $4«50 a m
pound to Manheim Auto Auction, represented by Greg den
man, left. At right is Sarah Zurln, farm show queen.
Reserve sale lamb at the Manhelm Farm Show was exhi
bited by John Tracy, second from right, and sold to Fulton
Bank for $3.25 a pound. From left, Sarah Zurln, farm show
queen; Mike Flrestlne, Fulton Bank; John; and Lowell Fry,
of the bank.
Fulton Bank purchased the reserve champion goat exhi
bited by Amanda Grube at Manheim Farm Show for $5 a
pound. From left, Fulton Bank representatives Lowell Fry
and Sean McKinney, Grube, Mike Flrestlne, of the bank, and
Sarah Zurln, farm show queen.