-Special Show Section, Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 5,2002
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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. Sanc
tioned by the Pennsylvania
High School Rodeo Associa
tion, classes are posted for
team roping, saddle and
bareback riding, bull riding,
steer wrestling, calf roping,
breakaway roping, goat
tying, pole bending and
barrel racing.
• School Activities - Vo-ag
students from Pennsylvania
high schools compete for a
slice of the Farm Show prize
money with a variety of dem
onstrations and exhibits.
Eighteen educational
window exhibits can be found
on the lower concourse of the
Large Arena, while interest
ing landscape exhibits and
horticultural exhibits can be
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