-Special Show Section, Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 5,2002 239 What’s In Store At This Year’s Farm Show This year at the Farm Show come to enjoy the fea tures you look for every year plus check out the new addi tions to the event. This year you’ll find: • Animals on Display - over 5,000 head of sheep, swine horses, cattle, goats, and rabbits are expected for competition. Always in the limelight, our livestock shows and sales attract exhibitors and visitors from all corners of the commonwealth. • Butter Sculpture - The Pennsylvania Dairy Promo tion Program will sponsor an other life-size butter sculpture. This will be lo cated in the East Lobby. • Commercial Exhibitors - You will see this year’s newest innovation in farm equipment, services, and products, and learn more about them from representa tives of over 325 companies with exhibits around the complex. • Cooking Demonstrations are an on going feature in the Food Pantry throughout the week. • Educational Exhibits - Government agencies, universities, and agricultural organizations always offer Farm Show visitors valuable information on their ser vices and activities. Visitors can talk with representatives of these groups and get firsthand information, on a multitude of subjects. • Family Living and Agricultural Learning Center - One acre of family living, horticultural, environmental and 4-H and FFA exhibits are located in the Family Living and Agricultural Center. These interesting presentations are fea tured on stage on the second floor of the Northeast Building. • Food Court - Eleven Pennsylvania commodity associations offer their speci alties for sale in the orange East Building. Featuring the tastes of Pennsylvania’s finest agricultural products, the famous Farm Show Food Court is one place you’ll want to visit again and again. • Food Pantry - The Food Pantry in the West Lobby features hundreds of items produced and processed in Pennsylvania. Cooking demonstrations are presented several times each day, as culinary stu dents incorporate many of the products on display into their favorite recipes. • 4-H Exhibits - Food and nutrition, clothing and textiles, crafts, child care, animal science and entomology, photog raphy, woodworking, gardening and wildlife are some of the project categories that 4-H club members can submit for judging in the Family Living department. • Horticulture Center - You are sure to find inspiration for your own landscaping projects when you see what our FFA members have done with their landscape exhibits located throughout the second floor of the Northeast Building, Family Living and Agricultural Learning Center. • Hours - Farm Show hours are now 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. every day except Thursday, when the show closes at 4 p.m. The blue Main Building with commercial exhibits opens one hour later and closes one hour earlier than the rest of the Farm Show Complex. • Milking Parlor - Hundreds of cows are milked twice a day in a modern milk ing parlor in the red North Building. Unique among dairy shows, this facility is approved by state milk sanitarians for the production and sale of fluid milk. The milk is inspected, cooled, and pumped onto bulk tanks for sale through normal market channels, with proceeds going back to the Faun Show exhibitois. • Pennsylvania Food Market - The Food Market features a variety of Pennsyl vania companies promoting their own snack foods, candy, spices, processed meats, con diments and beverages through sales and sampling. The Food market has moved to a new location in the Southwest Corner of the Main Exhibition area. This popular exhibit was previ ously located in the Maclay Street Lobby. • Rodeo - Youth champi ons from around the state will compete in two separate rodeos on Saturday. 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