Blfrlancaster Fanning, Saturday, October 7, 2000
West Lampeter Community Fair Posts Sale Results
WEST LAMPETER (Lancas- Lampeter Community Fair Live
ter Co.) Following are photo stock Sale,
results from last week’s West
West Lampeter Fair champion 4-H steer, exhibited by
Jennie Ream, left, was sold to Moss’s Steak and Seafood,
Lititz, represented by Bobbi Roush, general manager,
center. The steer sold for $2,100. At right is Shanna
Charles, Fair Queen.
FFA sale steer at West Lampeter Community Fair, ex
hibited by Robert Garrett, sold for $2,200 to H.L. Weiker,
Strasburg. From left, Jeff Weiker of H.S. Weiker; Garrett;
and Shanna Charles, Fair Queen.
Allan Herr Jr., right, exhibited the grand champion FFA
hog, sold for $550 to Darrenkamp’s Food Markets, Willow
Street. From left, Joe Darrenkamp; Shanna Charles, fair
queen; and Allan.
All photos by
Andy Andrews
Champion 4-H hog shown by Tiffany Dean, far right,
was sold to Market Basket, Ronks, for $l,OOO last week
at the West Lampeter Community Fair. From left, Bill
Fisher, Market Basket owner; Josh Brown, Market Basket
manager; Shanna Charles, Fair Queen; and Tiffany.
Harold Welk, Stonehurst Farm, center, purchased the
champion 4-H lamb from Tiffany Dean for $525. From
left, Shanna Charles, Fair Queen; Welk; and Tiffany.
Champion FFA lamb exhibited by Brad teaman, right,
sold for $450 to Don Welk, Stonehurst Farm, Strasburg,
center. At left is Shanna Charles, Fair Queen.
Ram Lamb,
Invitational Ewe
Sale Posts Results
STATE COLLEGE (Centre Co.)
The Pennsylvania State Depart
ment of Agriculture's Meat Animal
Evaluation Center has announced
the results from a very successful
22nd Annual Performance Tested
Ram ' Lamb and Invitational Ewe
Sale, in conjunction with Pennsylva
nia’s Sheep Producers Field Day.
The performance-tested ram sale
started with the 27 junior Suffolk
rams, which averaged $241. The top
indexing junior Suffolk, consigned
by John Scott, Jr., sold for $350 to
Judith Witt of Burnt Cabins. The
top-selling spring-born Suffolk was
another John Scott consignment, the
lot 3 ram, sold to George Hunter of
Stoneboro for $425. There were four
other spring Suffolk rams that re
turned $4OO.
The nine spring-born Hampshire
rams averaged $214. The top-index
ing Hampshire ram lamb was con
signed by Heth Hampshires and sold
to William Stoner of Mifflintown for
$325. The top sale price for a Hamp
shire ram was $350 which was bid
for the second highest indexing
Hampshire consigned by Clyde Bru
baker and the Jim Parlett consigned
ram. These rams sold to Warren
Landis of Souderton and Jayson
Harpster of Pennsylvania Furnace,
respectively.
The 18 fall-born Dorsets were the
next to cross the auction block. They
returned the top breed average sale
price of $375. The three highest
prices of the day were offered for a
senior Dorset. The overall top-selling
ram was lot 44, the Penn State Uni
versity consignment, which sold to
Max DeHart, Milton for $B5O.
The second highest selling ram of
the day was the fastest gaining sen
ior Dorset consigned by Hollystone
Farm. This ram was selected by Mul
ligan Farms, Belmont, N.Y., for
$825. The ram with the largest
scanned loin eye, on test, was lot 45
owned by Penn State, which sold to
Gordon Roup of Danville for $BOO.
The spring-born Dorsets followed
with the next highest breed sale aver
age of $282.
The top-indexing spring-born ram
lamb consigned by Hollystone Farm
was also the top-selling ram among
all of the spring-born rams.
Delaware Valley College, Doyles
town offered the winning bid of $650
for this, the highest-indexing ram
over all. The second-highest indexing
Dorset consigned by Visions Stock
Farm of McConnellsburg sold for the
second-highest price of the group
when $4OO was bid by Jack Smith
for Max DeHart of Milton.
The Oxford ram consigned by Jef
frey Everett sold for $l5O to Mulli
gan Farms.
The two Tunis rams consigned by
LHH Tunis sold for $175 each.
The two Southdown rams con
signed by Seth’s Flock sold for $175
to David Campbell of Northumber
land and for $l5O to Mulligan
Farms, respectively.
Every ram of this, the largest
group of rams to ever be tested or of
fered for sale in Pennsylvania’s per
formance tested ram sale, sold for a
very good average of $275.
The invitational ewe sale was also
very successful with 45 purebred
ewes, most of which were ewe lambs,
selling for an average of $215.
The 10 Hampshire ewes sold for
an average of $225. The 10 Suffolk
ewe lambs sold for an average of
$215. The 25 Dorset ewes averaged
$2lO. The six Suffolk Polypay com
mercial ewe lambs averaged $l5O.
For more information about Penn
sylvania’s performance testing pro
grams, contact Glenn Ebtrly, Penn
sylvania Department of
Agriculture’s Meat Animal Evalua
tion Center, 651 Fox Hollow Road,
State College, PA 16803, (814)
238-2527 and phone/fax (814)
865-5857 or e-mail: geberly@das.p
su.edu.