West End Fair Junior LAURELTON (Union Co.) The 23rd annual Union County West End Fair Junior Livestock Sale was conducted in Laureiton recently. Fifty-nine different members of several Union Coun ty 4-H Clubs and the Mifflinburg FFA Chapter sold animals at the sale. A total of 118 lots containing eight rabbit meat pens, 10 steers, 39 market hogs, and 61 market lambs were sold. Forty-eight buyers supported the youth by purchasing animals at the 76th annual Union County West End Fair. This year’s sale grossed more than $43,100 which broke the previous record. Bryan Champion steer buyer Robert Hamm of Country Cup board in Lewisburg and Owner Rhonda Hook. Auctioneer Bryan Imes in the background. Champion hog buyer Keystone Show Pigs, represented by Michael and Justin Wiand and Ken Fetteroth, and Owner Trista Smith of Millmont. Imes of Port Royal served as the auctioneer at the sale. The grand champion market steer was purchased by Robert Hamm for the Country Cup board Restaurant, Lewisburg. A bid of $2 per pound was accepted for the 1,285-pound Angus steer, owned by Rhonda Hook. Rhonda is the daughter of Steven and Wanda Hook and is a member of the Mifflinburg FFA Chapter. The 1,315-pound reserve champion market steer was pur chased by Sue Iddlings for The Carriage Comer Restaurant and hiding’s Quarry for $1.35 per pound. Adam Wolfe was the owner and is a member of the Livestock Sale Announces Results Kelly-ite 4-H Club. The Lewisburg native is the son of Dennis and Anna Wolfe. Other steers were sold at an average price of $.99 per pound. The champion market Hog was sold for $7 per pound and was purchased by Ken Fetteroth for Keystone Show Pigs. The 253-pound crossbred hog was owned by Trista Smith of Mill mont. The FFA member will be a senior at the Mifflinburg Area High School this fall and is the daughter of Terry Smith. Courtney Benner was the owner of the 244-pound Hamp shire Duroc crossbred reserve champion. It was purchased by Dennis Keeger for the West Mil ton State Bank at $6 per pound. The average sale price for the other 37 hogs was $1.70 per pound. The grand champion market lamb was purchased by the Mif flinburg Bank and Trust Compa ny for $7 a pound. The 126-pound lamb was owned by Tristan Roupp of Mifflinburg. Tristan is a member of the Mif flinburg FFA Chapter and is the son of Richard and Cindy Roupp. A 118-pound lamb owned by Shauna Wolfe of Mifflinburg was named the reserve champion. It was sold to the West Milton State Bank for $2 a pound. The Mif flinburg FFA graduate is the daughter of William and Jean Wolfe. The average sale price for the nonchampion lambs was $1.35. Cornell Marketing Program Aims For Selling Goats Per Pound ITHACA, N.Y. The North east Sheep and Goat Marketing Program at Cornell University has approached many of the major meat goat associations in the east to join in support for an effort to encourage major live stock sales organizations to begin marketing meat goats by the pound rather than by the head. A suggested resolution to that effect was forwarded to these as sociations and they were encour aged to communicate on this issue with their membership. Associations contacted include: Empire State Meat Goat Associa tion; Lower Shore Goat Produc ers Association (Maryland); Vir ginia Meat Goat Association; Tennessee Valley Goat Associa tion; Georgia Meat Goat Associa tion; and South Carolina Meat Goat Association. Half of the meat goats slaugh tered in the country under Feder al Inspection are slaughtered in northeast slaughter facilities and many of these pass through live stock markets in the region. Most of these markets Champion lamb owner Tristan Roupp of Mifflinburg and buyer Cliff Valentine of the Mifflinburg Bank and Trust Company. goats by the head to processors and retailers who must then sell their product by the pound. Additionally, market reports from the sale barns do not pres ent prices in a method which will allow for comparison. As a result, a move to pricing by the pound will allow proces sors and retailers to more easily estimate their costs. It will pro vide market reporters with prices that are comparable and give producers a clearer understand ing of what their livestock are worth, where the premium mar kets might be and what type, size or condition sells best. This is an issue that will re quire all producers to join togeth er and express strongly their con cern. It also is an opportunity for producers to express their eco nomic power by supporting those institutions which do make the change to a fairer more under standable method of pricing our product. 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The groups listed above all have Websites and are accessible through the Maryland Small Ruminant Page (www.sheepand goat.com) or at www.sheepgoat marketing.org. The Northeast Sheep and Goat Marketing Program was estab lished to improve the ability of farmers to market their sheep and goats. The program is funded through a grant from the USDA. The grant funds were made available as a result of a petition filed by the American Sheep In dustry Association (ASI) et al. to slow the flow of cheap imported lamb into the U.S. and are in tended to improve the compet itive position of the domestic in dustry. Members of the program can be reached by telephone at (607) 255-2850 or by e-mail at ijmss@comell.edu.
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