Livestock Champions Sold JOYCE BUPP York Co. Correspondent YORK (York Co.) Finish- the annual youth livestock sale ing her 4-H career with a flour- with her grand champion ish, Hanover exhibitor Tammi market steer. Champion market goat at the York Fair Junior show was exhibited by Chad Menges and sold for $6OO to Fulton Bank. Representing the bank are Mike, Margeaux, and Morgan Firestine and Jared Rodman. Moss’s Steak and Sea House, represented by Rob Billet, was the winning bidder for ijndsay Jones’ reserve cham pion market hog with a $9OO bid. Rookie 4-H’er Dalton Flory’s reserve champion market lamb went to a Flory family of buyers, represented by Tasha and Donald Flory, Jr. York Fair Junior Grubb bid farewell to York Fair junior competition by opening The 1,255-pound, Angus X Maine-Anjou crossbred steer led off the livestock parade of champions through the sale arena and generated a final bid of $5,000 from a trio of support ers. Placing the winning bid on the champion were Del-Wood Kitchens, Inc., C & E Enter prises and Hanover Agway, all of the Hanover area. Reserve champion steer, ex hibited by Hope Long, Airville, weighed in at 1,320 pounds and brought a winning bid of $3,000 from Tuscarora Hardwood, Inc., Elliottsburg. Grand champion lamb exhibi tor Jen Flinchbaugh, York, also marked her final year of junior participation, wrapping up with a bid of $1,575 from a buyers consortium. Included were Bob Robinson Insurance, Dr. Barry Flinchbaugh, Bortner Bros., Inc., Colin Arndt Trailer Man agement, Rentzel Auctioneer ing, Rep. Ron Miller (R-93rd District), Godfrey Bros. Meats, Walnut Lane Farm, and Dean Keeny. Dalton Flory’s reserve cham pion lamb earned him a boost of support from his family. Team ing up for the final bid of $7OO on the Brogue 4-H’ers lamb were buyers Jackie and Donald Flory and Donald Flory, Jr. Kurt Long, Airville, was the exhibitor of the champion market swine, a 244-pound crossbred. It sold to Tuscarora Hardwood, Inc., on a winning bid of $1,400. Frequent youth sale support Hoss’s Steak and Sea House of fered the final bid of $9OO on the reserve champion market swine, exhibited by Lindsay Jones, East Berlin. This year marked the first time that market goats were in cluded in the annual York Fair junior livestock sale. Champion market goat, exhibited by Chad Menges, Hanover, weighed 70- pounds and sold for $6OO to Fulton Bank. Reserve champion market goat placing was won by Jarah Spahr. Her 77-pound runner-up goat won a bid of $350 from Engle Publishing/York Commu nity Courier, Mount Joy, and Spring Valley Lawn Care, Wellsville. Continuing a tradition of some two decades, a cake baked and decorated by 4-H volunteer Lois Rankin was the sale’s kickoff feature, with the pro ceeds to benefit youth livestock programs. Further continuing the tradition, the first nine bid ders chose not to keep the cake, donating it back for someone else to buy. Final bidder and former 4-H livestock member Jason Baer’s Trucking then donated the cake to be cut and enjoyed by the jun iors at the end of the sale. Total raised by the cake auction was $1,375, with other buyers in cluding Beasley Ford, C & E Enterprises, Del-Wood Kitch ens, Inc., Starview Farm Women/Group #7, Manchester Hardware, and York County Pork Producers. More than $89,500 for junior livestock exhibitors and youth programs was generated by the York Fair’s junior livestock sale. On the 64 head of market lambs, sale average was $1.91 per pound with the champion and $1.66 per pound without the champion, and a per-head aver age of $176. Market steers, on 27 head, hveraged $1.20 per pound with the champion and $1.04 without the champion, for a per- Tammi Grubb’s champion junior market steer sold for $5,000 to buyers Del-Wood Kitchens, C & E Enterprises, and Hanover Agway. Representing the buyer trio are Charles and Evelyn Grubb. Champion market lamb, exhibited by Jen Flinchbaugh, sold to a syndicate of buyers for $1,575. m Hope Long’s reserve champion market steer sold on a $3,000 bid from Tuscarora Hardwood, Inc., represented by Dan Long. head average of $1,275. though only seven goats went Largest volume of head sold through the sale, they averaged was m the swine category, with $195 with a per pound aver | ge 94 head averaging $302, and a including the champion of $4.11 per-pound price, with the cham- and s3