A36-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 14,2001
Record
MILLIE BUNTING
Market Staff
NEW HOLLAND (Lancaster
Co.) Baa baa-a-a! Naa-a-a-a!.
Baa baa-a-a-a-a-a!
These are the sounds of spring
in the “short-leg” pens at the
New Holland Sales Stables.
Hundreds, make that thou
sands, of lambs and kids came to
market in the past 10 days at the
New Holland Sales Stables, set
ting Easter season records.
A total of 11,797 head of sheep
and goats were sold at four sales
within eight days at the New
Holland auction site. The sheep
numbers totaled 4,844 and an al
most unbelievable 6,953 goats.
These are record-breaking
marketing numbers in Lancaster
County for the Easter season.
The major factor for the un
precedented large lamb and goat
marketings is the occurrence of
the Christian Easter and the Or
thodox Easter at the same time,
Sunday, April 15, which is also
the first day (Muharram 1) in the
Islam calendar year 1421. In ad
dition, Palm Sunday, April 8,
was the first day of the 8-day
Pen of goats, a small lot out of the 2,307 head sold at
the New Holland Sales Stables, await sale Monday.
Spring Jersey Sale
(Continued from Page A2B) of fat, 622 pounds of protein, and
. „ . , 2,652 cheese yield dollars on Twin
ners were recognized at the sale. Haven Marcus Sue . EX-
First place in 2001 was Molhe ,
Van Lieu with Stoney Hollow Mai- .. Chnste a Shck earned $226 for
colm Iris-P. This mature equiva- „ ls record on i CA Theo Barber
lent record of 18,682 pounds of ?5f se pounds of milk,
milk, 842 pounds of fat, 645 776 P° unds of fat ’ 587 P ounds of
pounds of protein, and 2,863 P ro * e ' n ’ and 2,651 cheese yield
cheese yield dollars, earned her “°Hars.
$565. Alta Genetics, Select Sires, ABS,
In second place was Rebecca and Semex joined the sale with
Van Tassel who earned $339 for proceeds from the sale of donated
her mature equivalent record of semen going toward the Pennsyl
-18,916 pounds of milk, 753 pounds vania Jersey Youth fund.
Jennifer Cogan, Craig Sprout, Lee Bailey, and Don
Stonerook gather around the second high seller at the
Pa. Spring Jersey Sale. Bryan Marcoot, field representa
tive for the American Jersey Cattle Association, looks on
from the sale booth.
Breaking Number Of Easter Lambs,
Goats Sold At New Holland
Jewish Pesach (Passover) cele
bration, when there is always an
increase in lamb purchases.
Considering the convergence
of the religious holidays on the
same date, the New Holland
management scheduled an extra
lamb and goat sale to better ac
commodate both buyers and sell
ers who deal at New Holland.
Thus, there was not a one-day
sales record for lamb established
this year. Last year, for the main
sale for the Easter trade, there
were not enough pens to hold all
the offerings and animals had to
be returned to livestock trucks to
await sale.
Ken Smoker, New Holland’s
manager of the sheep and goat
division, said that in his 20 years
of handling, sheep and goats, “to
be fair,” he said, he would have
to say the lamb sale numbers are
not as large as some he’s han
dled. The record for sheep, most
ly lambs, sold at one sale is near
ly 4,000, he recalled.
For the last 10 years, Smoker
noted, the meat goat offerings
continue to increase along with
the influx of mideastem ethnic
groups of the Islamic faith to
eastern metropolitan areas.
Goat marketings in Lancaster
County now outnumber the
sheep and lambs. According to
the USDA Market News Service,
the official numbers for sheep
marketings at the New Holland
auctions last year totaled 55,346
- head and the goat marketings to
taled 73,402.
Where do all these “short legs”
come from? When asked, Ken
Smoker said, “Pennsylvania,
Ohio, New York, West Virginia.
Virginia, Maryland, Delaware,
New Jersey, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Alabama, Geor
gia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ar
kansas, Missouri, and Mississip
pi.”
Lancaster County has been
called the livestock market cen
ter of the East. It appears that
the sheep and goat sales are car
rying on that tradition.
A Pen of Easter lambs await sale at New Holland, where prices on Choice and Prime
35-60 pound lambs ranged from $l4O-210 per hundredweight.
4-H Equine Garage
Sale April 21
NAZARETH (Northamp
ton Co.) On April 21, the
annual tack swap or “equine
garage sale” will be conducted
at the Northampton County
4-H Center, Nazareth. The
tack swap will be from 11
a.m.-2 p.m. The public is in
vited to attend.
The Northampton County
4-H Center is located on
Bushkill Center Road, 2.2
miles south of Rt. 512 at the
Bangor Lumber light or four
miles north of Nazareth on
Bushkill Center Road.
There will be new and used
items for sale for all horse in
terests and disciplines. Also,
there will be horse crafts,
Breyer model horses, clothing
and other horse related items.
All sellers must preregister for
a sale table or space; there are
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Goats are sold for the Easter trade in the small live
stock sales ring at the New Holland Sales Stables Mon
day.
no consignments. No live ani
mals are permitted.
Food, courtesy of Back
trackers 4-H Horse and Pony
Club, will be available during
the sale hours. This is a rain/
shine event; being held inside
non-heated buildings and out
side.
Anyone wishing informa
tion concerning the tack swap
is asked to call Janice Martin
at (610) 837-7294. Anyone
wishing general information
concerning the 4-H program
in Northampton County is
asked to call Phyllis Laufer,—
Northampton County 4-H
coordinator, weekdays, 8
a.m.-4 p.m., at (610) 746-1970,
or your local Agriculture Ex
tension Service in your coun
ty.
State Milk
Marketing
Board To
Hold Hearing
May 16
HARRISBURG (Dauphin
Co.) On May 16, the Milk
Marketing Board will conduct a
public hearing for Milk Market
ing Areas, 1,2,3,4,5, and 6.
The purpose of the hearing is
to receive testimony and exhibits
concerning the continuation of
the current over-order premium,
and whether an adjustment
should be made to the level of the
current over-order premium
($1.40 per hundred pounds of
Class I milk) that is due to expire
on June 30.
Milk Marketing Board Mem
bers stress that this hearing will
not affect the $.25 per one hun
dred pounds of Class I milk
added to the current over-order
premium to help offset the in
crease in fuel costs.
The hearing will be held at
9:30 a.m. in Room 202 of the Ag
riculture Building, 2301 North
Cameron Street, Harrisburg.