Businesses Support Youth At Sale Of Champions
Grand Champion Goat Sale Sets Record at $2,200; Farm Show Scholarships Awarded
MICHELLE KUNJAPPU Ocker, 15, in his fifth year show- and Giant Foods
Lancaster Farming Staff ing market goats at the Farm for $2,200.
HARRISBURG (Dauphin Show, exhibited the grand cham- Morgan
Co.) The former Small Arena pion market goat, a crossbred 17 p. ’
now designated as the Sale Boer. Zac received $2,200 dou- ’
Arena again hosted the annual Wing the previous record of . e .
Sale of Champions at the Farm $l,lOO from New Holland gr and cnampion
Show complex Tuesday. Sales Stables. market
The event followed what some The grand champion market ® ■ n .f® r "ole
believe to be record attendence swine. A crossbred animal, the Buildings pur
over the weekend. hog was exhibited by Jacob chased the lamb
The record belonged to the Wheeler, Somerset, and pur- for $3,000.
market goat show this year. Zac chased by Hatfield Quality Meats Nate Tice’s
champion
Valerie Svonavec sold her reserve champion market swine for $2,100
to Fulton Bank and Kessler’s, Inc. Also pictured are Sue Samson, Kess- hred Sh ‘
ler’s, Inc., and Mike Firestine, Fulton Bank.
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Kori Morgan sold her grand champion market lamb to Pioneer Pole
Buildings for $3,000.
ceived $2,100 for her hog from
Fulton Bank and Kessler’s, Inc.
The reserve champion market
lamb in the junior show was a
crossbred animal exhibited by
Becky Cowell, Waynesburg, a
freshman majoring in biology at
Waynesburg College. Old Guard
Insurance, Lititz, purchased the
lamb for $1,500.
grand champion
market steer, a
crossbred,
brought $20,000
for Nate, a senior
at Northern Leb
anon High
School. Hoss’s
Steak and Sea
House purchased
the steer.
The reserve champion market sylvania Farm Show Scholarship
steer was shown by third-year Foundation announced the*win-
Farm Show exhibitor Ryan Clay- ners of its tenth annual schol
comb, 11, Osterburg. Taylor arship contest at the 2003 Farm
Excel, Wyalusing, purchased the Show Junior Livestock Sale of
Shorthorn steer for $2,700. Champions.
Matt Riebling, 16, Hanover, in The scholarship committee
his first Farm Show appearance awarded $2,000 scholarships to
as an exhibitor, showed the re- 24 Pennsylvania youth who are
serve champion market goat, pursuing post-secondary educa-
New Holland Sales Stables pur- tion. Winners were selected based
chased the goat for $1,150. on scholastic achievements, 4-H
Also auctioned off was a or FFA involvement, school ac
limited edition tractor number- tivities, and a history of involve
ed one of 1,200 sold to benefit ment in the livestock events at
the FFA Foundation. Bill Camp- the Farm Show.
Valerie Svona
vec, 9, Rock
wood, showed
the reserve
bell, CEO of Hoss’s Steak and
Sea House, purchased the item.
“Although facilities are impor- _ 9)
tant, it is not just about brick and (Turtl to Page
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 18, 2003-A27
mortar. In addition to building
for the future with physical infra
structure, we are also building for
the future when we support our
4-H and FFA members,” said
Sam Hayes, agriculture secretary.
In another show of support for
youth, also at the sale twenty
four Pennsylvania scholars were
honored Tuesday when the Penn-
The first fund established after
the 1993 Farm Show Sale of