A22-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 29, 2000 Simmental Family Has Great Show Five Years Running ANDY ANDREWS Lancaster Farming Staff MYERSTOWN (Lebanon Co.) The family recently hon ored by the Pennsylvania Sim mental Association certainly had a great year. Well, not just a great year a great live years, devoting time, attention, and love to a beef breed that many claim is easy to work with, has good mother lines, and, in the words of a champion exhibitor, “is just really interesting,” said Cassie Schaeffer, Myerstown. With brother Tim, 16, and mom and dad Tracy and Paul Schaeffer, Cassie has been hit ting the show circuit in a big way. This year alone Cassie exhib ited the grand champion Sim mental heifer in both the open and junior show as well as champion bred and owned at the Farm Show. Tim exhibited the reserve champion heifer in the junior show. These heifers, along with War O’ Fancy Pants, have competed and won at many other shows throughout the country this past year, with Fancy Pants being named grand champion Sim mental heifer at the Kansas City royal in October. Recently the Schaeffers exhib ited a home-raised bull at the Tennessee Beef Agribition, where he was named reserve champion, and then son. They also won at the recent Pennsylvania Beef Expo. Their living room wall is spa ciously decorated with many other championship trophies: banners for the 1999 Keystone The American Royal was a great honor for the Schaeffer family. They were presented with this solid silver belt buckle with rubies as champions at the 100th anniversary show. “It’s an extreme honor that we’ll always remember and cherish,” said Paul. Lancaster Farming Classified Ads [ow searchable on thi Internet. ✓ Check Out Our Web Site www lancasterfarmi International Livestock Expo (KILE) yearling heifer, grand champion at the 1999 American Royal in Kansas City, Kan. (where they won the treasured solid silver, ruby-studded 100th year anniversary belt buckle), intermediate champion heifer at the 1999 Ohio State Fair and re serve grand champion Simmen tal female, and the calf champion at the 1999 Houston, Texas Livestock Show and Rodeo. They also won at the Simmental Sweepstakes Show in July 1999 in Louisville, Ky., picking up reserve intermediate champion female. Why Simmentals? About five years ago Tim fell in love with a black and white Simmental calf named Rachel, who they purchased, along with three other heifers, from breeder Clarence Burkholder. This was the beginning of the S&S Sim mental herd. Tim, 16, is a sophomore at Elco. Tim, who plans a career in livestock management, spends a great deal of time speaking with those involved in the Simmental breed, surfing the Internet and reading up on the latest Sim mental genetics. Tim, Elco FFA reporter and Lebanon County 4-H member, said his favorite show is the North American International Livestock Expo. The event, con ducted in Louisville, Ky. every November, brings together breeders from all over the coun try. Simmentals have been one of the largest exhibited breeds at this show, Tim noted. “It’s a nice place,” he said. “The facilities are beautiful and everybody enjoys the show.” ATTENTION DAIRYMEN LANCO Dairy Farms Co-Op Inc. is now a marketing division of Allied Federated Co-Op’s of Caton, New York. We Would Like To Ask You These Questions: Are you tired 0f... 1. Mega-Merger’s and Consolidations? 2. Lower Milk Prices? 3. Supporting High Debt Load Co-Op’s with Yjgur Milfc£Jl£GlS As Their Banks Equity? 4. Paying High Salaried Executives & Directors? 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Paul points out that Tim’s almost unbridled enthusiasm for the breed is the reason they started. Paul spent time showing Quarter Horses all around the country, including three years in Oklahoma City and other na tionwide events. Tim began to pick up knowl edge of the breed, said Tim’s mother, Tracy. She said that Tim spends time on the Internet keeping in touch with breeders and companies about the latest breed information. “We see breeders all over the country, including Louisville, Kentucky, and at the Eastern Nationals in Timonium, the Farm Show, Denver, Houston, and Kansas City,” said Paul. When the family is at shows, Tim tries to meet as many other breeders as he can. Tim, said Tracy, “likes to go up and down the aisles and study the competi tion.” At the Eastern Regional Junior Simmental Show in Ti- while making you feel relaxed. 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