Beef Ed Evening Reviews Accomplishments DEANNA CUNFER Carbon Co. Correspondent BERNVILLE (Berks Co.) The Berks/Southeast Cattlemen’s Association and Penn State Co operative Extension recently con ducted their annual Beef Educational Eve ning at the Bemville Grange. After dinner pro vided by the members of the Bemville Grange, Cattlemen’s Association President Robert Adam wel comed those present and provided informa tion about the associa tion activities. Presently there are 41 members families and seven jun ior members. Member ship can be either for only the Berks/ Southeast Cattlemen’s Association or include membership in the Pennsylvania Cattle men’s Association Adams explained the association has two ob jectives—first is to promote beef demon strated by their in- The Berks/Southeast Cattlemen’s Association recently recognized the Champion Market and Breed volvement in the in 9 Beef winners at their annual Beef Educational Evening. Present this year, all exhibiting the champi . „ on breeding beef in their respective counties were, from left, Margeaux Firestine, Lebanon County; Berks county Barm Q aren Erb, Schuylkill County; Emilie Miller, Berks County, and Robert Adam, association president. City Banquet, Open House at the Berks County Ag Center, their fall banquet and a recent tour of Excel (Taylor Packing). Their second objective is to help their youth by provid ing trophies and awards at vari ous fairs and shows and sponsor ing two or three youth each year to a beef camp in Virginia. Each year during their Beef Ed A Mount Joy Membership offers you: • Local Markets • Member benefits - such as insurance • Our own Hauling Evening the association honors the youth beef winners in both market and breeding of sur rounding counties. Those able to attend this year just happened to be the youth that exhibited the champion female for their coun ty. The champion females for each were registered Herefords as well. r , Representing Lebanon county was Margeaux Firestin^?'' 17, daughter of Michael and Martine Firestine of Womelsdorf. Her bred-and-owned January 2001 heifer, MAP Miss Bella, was also amount FARMERS Pt&ducena, 1-800-860-6569 • 717-653-5431 Email: mtjoymilk@supernet.com named the champion female of the New York State Fair, cham pion Hereford at the Maryland State Fair, supreme champion of York Fair and reserve champion at Eastern Nationals. The dam of Firestine’s champion female, also a bred-and-owned, had also gath ered championship honors for her. Firestine is a senior at Conrad Weiser High School and has been accepted to Loyola College in Baltimore, Md. where she will be a biology major in the pre-med program. • 72 yrs. experience in the business • Some of the highest premiums avaliable • Local field staff JOF eh* CO-OP Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 1,2003-Al9 She has shown her Hereford cattle at approximately 13 shows this past year on the local, state, and national levels. She currently owns 15 of the 30-35 head on the farm—this total does not include the current crop of calves. Fire stine had the honor of being named the National Polled Here ford Queen while in Denver, Col orado this past January while at the National Polled Hereford Show. From Berks county the owner of the champion female, ECM sF’s Baby 110, a March 2001 bred-and-owned Hereford, was Emilie Miller, 17, daughter of Mike and Sheila Miller of Wo melsdorf. Miller also had the re serve market steer project for Berks county. A senior at Tulpe hocken High School she has been accepted at both Kan sas and Oklahoma Univer sities in the honors pro gram. Her major will lead her to a masters degree in Genetic Engineering. This being Miller’s last year of 4-H showing she regularly exhibits her ani mals at shows throughout the country and was recent ly elected to the National Hereford Junior Board of Directors. stine at MAP Farms. Winners of the champion mar ket steer or market steer project for the respective counties were: Schuylkill County, Paul Shealer; Lebanon County, Tracy Gray; and Berks County, Kristy Diet- rich. Glyphomax Plus - the Alternative to Roundup When it eotiks to pu.pl mt buindowns 01 ipphe mons in Rounelup Re it!) soxbemsoi u)in \>ti i non pi >1 Holm si i \ 1 'in lihi' m 111 nli 1 ((Ufa Dow AgroSciences 1 in ' www dowagro com Present to represent Schuylkill county was Daren Erb, 18, son of Kevin and Tina Brown of Pine Grove. A junior at Pine Grove High School he is the owner of MAP Miss Annie, a February 2000 Hereford female that was named the champion female in his county. Erb owns approxi- mately 24 cross-bred and registered head. His champion female originat- ed from the herd of Fire-