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. And finally, it is an issue
which can help to organize an in
dustry that is in its infancy, but
growing rapidly and with a
strong consumer base.
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If you are not a member of a
goat organization, give considera
tion to seeking one out. If none
exist in your area, this is a time to
seek out like minded producers
and organize one. 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.