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<o4 without the cham .
pion, ot $1.31 per pound and p j on
$1.24 without the champion. Al- H
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