A34-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 28, 2001
Prices High At Shippensburg Fair Sale
DAVE LEFEVER
Lancaster Farming Staff
SHIPPENSBURG (Cumber
land Co.) More than 100 ani
mals were auctioned off here
Tuesday evening during the 22nd
Annual Robert L. Finkenbinder
FFA Livestock Sale at the Ship
pensburg Community Fair.
Derrick Carpenter’s grand
champion market steer went to
Bill Campbell, owner of Hoss’s
Steak and Seahouse, for $3,700.
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Derrick Carpenter, right,
with buyer Tom Gsell of
F&M Trust. Carpenter’s re
serve champion market
goat brought $3OO.
July 1 Cattle On Feed 6%
Higher Than Year Ago
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Cattle
and calves on feed for slaughter
market in the United States for
feedlots with capacity of 1,000 or
more head totaled 11.01 million
head on July 1, 2001, according
to the National Agricultural Sta
tistics Service (NASS).
The inventory was 6 percent
above July 1, 2000 and 15 per
cent above July 1,1999.
The inventory included 6.50
million steers and steer calves, up
4 percent from the previous year.
This group accounted for 59 per
cent of the total inventory. Heif
ers and heifer calves accounted
for 4.45 million head,
up 7 percent from
2000.
Placements in feed
lots during June total
ed 1.97 million, 18 per
cent above 2000 and 10
percent above 1999.
Net placements were
1.89 million.
During June,
placements of cattle
and calves weighing
less than 600 pounds
were 419,000, 600-699
pounds were 442,000,
700-799 pounds were
631,000, and 800
pounds and greater
were 475,000.
Marketings of fed
cattle during June to
taled 2.12 million, 2
percent below 2000
"and 1 percent below
1999.
Other disappearance
totaled 77,000 during
June, 35 percent above
2000 and 22 percent
above 1999.
Historic 7 States Up 6
Percent
Cattle on feed July
1, 2001, in the historic
7 States for feedlots
The reserve champion steer,
owned by Mark Goodhart, sold
for $1,700. Buyer was Keith
Ginter of Keith’s Farm and
Dairy Supply, Newville.
Bill Leib’s grand champion
market hog was purchased by
Wenger Feeds for $1,025. Leib
also had the reserve champion
hog, which went to Hoss’s Steak
and Seahouse for $7OO.
Greencastle Livestock Market
purchased Leib’s grand champi
on market lamb for $550.
Bill Leib’s reserve grand
champion market hog went
for $7OO to Hoss’s Steak
and Seahouse owner Bill
Campbell, right.
with capacity of 1,000 or more
head totaled 9.47 million, up 6
percent from the previous year
and 16 percent above July 1,
1999.
The inventory included 5.52
million steers and steer calves, up
4 percent from the previous year.
This group accounted for 58 per
cent of the total inventory. Heif
ers and heifer calves accounted
for 3.89 million head, up 8 per
cent from 2000.
Placements in feedlots during
June totaled 1.69 million, 20 per
cent above 2000 and 12 percent
above 1999.
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Ryan Haines’ reserve champi
on market lamb went to Forrester
Farm Equipment for $lOO more
than the champion $650.
Leib also exhibited the grand
champion market goat, which
was purchased by Zachary Neil
of Neil Livestock for $275.
Derrick Carpenter’s reserve
champion goat brought $3OO.
Buyer was F&M Trust.
Four breeds of dairy animals
were also judged here on Tues
day.
Grand champions were exhibi
ted by Jennifer Zinn, Brown
Swiss; Tim Frantz, Guernsey;
Michele Reasner, Jersey; and
Jason Nailor, Milking Shorthorn.
Bill Leib, right, with his
grand champion market
lamb purchased by Jeff
Craig of Greencastle Live
stock Auction for $550.
Also shown is Craig’s
niece, Shea Fisher, 4.
Marketings during June total
ed 1.82 million, 1 percent below
both 2000 and 1999.
Other disappearance during
June was 60,000 head, 62 percent
above 2000 and up 36 percent
from 1999.
U.S. Total Up 7 Percent
Cattle on feed July 1, 2001,
from all feedlots in the United
States, totaled 13.1 million, up 7
percent from the 12.3 million on
July 1, 2000 and 14 percent
above July 1,1999.
Jim Adams, right, of . .. . „ ... .
Wenoer FMds nurchasfid ® L©lb f 10ft, with grand
mn i 9 f ih !£ champion market goat, pur-
Bill Loih’s grand champion h b , 5375 b y z^hary
market hog for $1,025. Non o( Nmi Lhostik
Mark Goodhart’s reserve grand champion steer
brought $1,700. From left, Goodhart with Todd Chestnut
and Keith Ginter of Keith’s Farm and Dairy Supply, New
ville.
Grand champion dairy animals at the Shippens
burg Fair for these four breeds are shown by, from left,
Jason Naiior, Milking Shorthorn; Tim Frantz, Guernsey;
Michele Reasner, Jersey; and Jennifer Zinn, Brown
Swiss.
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