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York Beef Show Posts Results
MICHELLE
RANCK-KUNJAPPU
Lancaster Farming Staff
Approximately 60 exhibitors
showed 140 head of cattle at the
York Fair’s Open Class Market
Steers show Monday.
After picking the winners,
judge Chet Hughes, Lancaster
County livestock extension agent,
said, “I think if I hauled these
steers to market, people would be
pleased with what I brought.
“They’re deep-bodied, heavily
muscled, and finished for market.
Also they are the right weight
1,300 pounds and frame size
for what the packers would se
lect. These cattle are eye-appeal
ing but have enough condition to
make Choice. They’re market
ready,” said Hughes.
Shane Miller, IS, a sophomore
at Spring Grove, and
1,355-pound “Louie” clinched
grand champion status after win
ning the heavyweight division of
market steers.
The steer, which Shane got
when the animal was seven
months old last October, hails
from Shane’s uncle’s “Lazy M”
ranch in Wyoming. Shane is
starting his own herd on the
seven-acre property of his home
Sustainability Grants Offered
To Agricultural Researchers, Educators
BURLINGTON, Va. The
Northeast Region Sustainable
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tion program (SARE) will once
again offer competitive grants to
educators and researchers who
are exploring how to move agri
cultural practices toward greater
sustainability. Agricultural sus
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that is environmentally sound,
economically viable, and socially
supportive of both rural and
urban communities.
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directly to improved farm prac
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with farmer implementation and
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and hopes to someday sell club
calves, so he has also added a
heifer to his string.
He is in his fourth year in the
show ring and plans to go onto
college and perhaps enter an ani
mal-related career. He is the son
of Kevin and Deb Miller, Spring
Grove.
Tommy Welsh, a senior at
Spring Grove, took off football
practice to exhibit “Johnny.” The
1,331-pound steer took home re
serve champion honors.
He is the son of Tom and
Carol Welsh, East Berlin, who
farm 450 acres of crop land.
Tommy, who has seven years of
experience in the ring, and his
sister have steer and dairy heif
ers. The heifers, he said, will go
to Harrisburg to compete in the
Farm Show this year.
He bought his steer at KILE
last year and is looking forward
to purchasing another animal at
the same event this year. Future
plans include perhaps beginning
a landscaping/lawn care business.
Both steers will be sold on Sat
urday.
Full results follow:
OPEN CLASS
MARKET STEER
SHOW RESULTS
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Lightweight class' 1 Kim Long 2 Her
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Both grant programs are de
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and experience in sustainable ag
ricultural techniques and educa
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Last year. Northeast SARE
committed $1,570,128 for 14 Re
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grants ranged for $4,320 to en
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develop a farmer-run research or
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Light heavyweight class- 1 Greg Daugh
erty 2. Jamie Welsh 3 Kevin Klmedmst
Heavyweight class 1. Cory Thompson
2 Herman Hake 3 Zach Kinsley
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Lightweight class 1 Donald Sunday 2
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Medium weight class-1 Jennifer Shultz
Light heavyweight class 1. Greg Daugh
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Breed reserve champion Jennifer
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Medium weight class; 1 Cassandra
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Breed champion- Cassandra Hake.
Breed reserve champion Tina Brown
Lightweight class. 1 Dustin Flmchbaugh
Light heavyweight class: 1. Kim Long 2.
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Breed champion. Kim Long
Breed reserve champion Katie Myers
Lightweight class' 1 Richard Hememan.
2 Cassandra Hake 3 Tina Brown
Medium weight class. 1 Cassandra
Hake 2 Tina Brown. 3 Brooke Keeney.
Light heavyweight class 1 Hope Long
2 Jennifer Shultz. 3. Richard Hememan
Heavyweight class 1 Shane Miller 2
Tom Welsh 3 Kelly Ham.
Breed champion' Shane Miller
Breed reserve champion Tom Welsh
GRAND CHAMPION
Shane Miller
RESERVE GRAND CHAMPION
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SARE also committed
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training on holistic management,
organic agriculture, and urban
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about $BB,OOO. We anticipate that
more funds will be available for
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Montgomery County Conducts
4-H Dairy Show
CREAMERY (Montgomery
Co.) Sixteen dairy animals
with four dairy breeds repre
sented were exhibited at the
Montgomery County 4-H Fair in
Creamery. Joy Crothers was the
fitting and showmanship judge
and Jane Pepple judged the type
classes.
This year’s supreme champion
of the show was a senior
2-year-old Holstein, Hallowells
Conrad Marlene, exhibited by
Sean Hallowell of Bechtelsville.
An antique gallon milk con
tainer representing milk from the
supreme champion was auction
ed off to the top bidder, Fred
Seipt of Freddy-Hill farms in
Lansdale for $4OO as part of
Montgomery County’s Market
Animal Sale.
Proceeds from the milk con
tainer are split between Sean and
the Montgomery County 4-H
Dairy Club.
The junior supreme champion
Sean Hallowed of Bechtelsville, right, exhibited Mont
gomery County’s 4-H Dairy Show’s supreme champion,
Hallowells Conrad Marlene. Amber Hallowed of Bechtel
sville, second from right, exhibited the junior supreme
champion, Maple Knoll Duke Taffy. Also pictured are
dairy show judges, from left, Joy Crothers and Jane
Pepple.
Johnston To Head NFU
Communications Department
WASHINGTON, D.C. Na
tional Farmers Union (NFU)
President Leland Swenson re
cently announced the appoint
ment of Laura Johnston as direc
tor of communications for the
family agriculture organization.
Johnston joins the national
staff in Washington, D.C., after
five years with Oklahoma Farm
ers Union, where she served as
the public relations specialist. She
also coordi
nated com
munications
was a winter calf, Maple Knoll
Duke Taffy, exhibited by Amber
Hallowell of Bechtelsville.
Grand and reserve grand
champions of the show were
Corey Yoder and Aaron Heiser in
Ayrshires, Amber Hallowell and
Corey Voider in Guernseys, Sean
Hallowell and Amber Hallowell
in Holsteins, and Amber Hallo
well and Sean Hallowell in Red
and Whites.
Champion and reserve cham
pions in fitting were Amber Hal
lowed and Sean Hallowed in the
senior division, Corey Yoder and
Adriel Leatherman in the inter
mediate division, and Andrea
Yoder in first year.
Champion and reserve cham
pions in showmanship were
Amber Hallowed and Sean Hal
lowed in the senior division,
Adriel Leatherman and Aaron
Heiser in the intermediate divi
sion, and Andrea Yoder in first
year.
and special projects for the Okla
homa 4-H Foundation for two
years. Last year, Johnston was
one of 30 Oklahomans selected to
participate in the Oklahoma Ag
ricultural Leadership Program.
The Oklahoma native grew up
on a registered Angus cattle
ranch. She holds a bachelor’s de
gree in journalism and broad
casting from Oklahoma State
University.
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