Dairy Beef Winners Will Miss Calves
NICKILEFEVER
Special Corresondent
KUTZTOWN (Berks Co.)
Thanks to Jason Rice, Freedom
lives a stress-free life.
Jason, 14, lives on Bad Farm, a
dairy farm in Kempton. His
heavyweight calf, Freedom, took
grand champion at the Kutztown
dairy beef show.
Jason did better than he ex
pected and he was very happy
with his results at the show, be
cause he also won grand champi
on showman.
“I feed him as much as possi
ble and keep him away from
stress,” he said.
Jason lives in the middle of no
where so it isn’t too hard to keep
Freedom away from stress he
said. Jason spends about two
hours a day with Freedom. He
also has 4 dairy cows at the show.
This is Jason’s sixth year
showing ane he will be in eighth
Jason Rice’s dairy beef entry, Freedom, won grand
champion market dairy beef at the Kutztown Fair dairy
beef show. Rachael Stafford took reserve grand champpi
on market dairy beef with Charlie.
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grade at Kutztown Middle
School in the fall.
Rachael Stafford is 10, but this
is her first year showing. Charlie,
Rachael’s heavyweight calf, won
reserve grand champion dairy
beef.
With her first year success, Ra
chael said she wants to work
even harder for next year.
“This is my last fair, and I had
a lot of fun doing it,” she said. “I
am looking forward to next
year.”
Rachael lives on Penn Jersey
Farm, a dairy beef and hog farm
in Strausstown. She will be in
fifth grade at Strausstown Ele
mentary in the fall.
Both of the winners said they
will be sad to see them their
calves go at the roundup in Sep
tember.
“They are like my pets,” Rice
said.
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MARKET DAIRY BEEF
Light lightweight: 1. Stacey Manbeck. 2.
Brandon Younker. 3. Vanessa Manbeck.
Lightweight: 1. Jordan Rice. 2. Stacey
Manbeck. 3. Eric Younker.
Champion lightweight: Stacey Manbeck.
Reserve; Jordan Rice.
Light mediumweight: 1. Amelia Mangel.
2. Mike Moyer. 3. Brett J. Treichler.
Mediumweight- 1. Kyle Hunsberger. 2.
Vanessa Manbeck. 3. Rachael Kirkoff.
Champion mediumweight: Kyle Hun-
sbergar.
Reserve: Amelia Mengel.
Light heavyweight: 1. Jason Rice. 2. Ra
chel Stafford. 3. Bradley R. Younker.
Heavyweight: 1. Adrianne N. Huber. 2.
Pamela S. Werley. 3. Rachael Stafford.
Champion heavyweight: Jason Rice.
Reserve: Rachel Stafford.
GRAND CHAMPION
Jason Rice
RESERVE QRANO CHAMPION
Rachael Stafford
DAIRY BEEF FITTING AND SHOWING
Fitting senior 1:1. Mike Moyer. 2. Jacob
D. Rice. 3. Stacey Manbeck.
Fitting senior 2; 1. Brett J. Treichler. 2.
Bradley R. Younker. 3. Vanessa Manbeck.
Fitting junior 1:1. Rachel Kickoff. 2. Ra
chael Stafford. 3. Eric Younker.
Fitting junior 2: 1. Bnttni S. Treichler. 2.
Adnanne N. Huber. 3. Jordan Rice.
Showing senior 1:1. Jason Rice. 2. Mike
Moyer. 3. Stacey Manbeck.
Showing senior 2: 1. Pamela S. Weriey.
2. Vanessa Manbeck. 3. Kimberly Angstadt.
Showing junior 1: 1. Rachael Kirkoff. 2
Rachael Stafford. 3. Enc Younker.
Showing junior 2:1. Jordan Rice. 2. Adn
anne N. Huber. 3. Amelia Mengel.
GRAND CHAMPION FITTER
Brett J. Treichler
RESERVE GRAND CHAMPION FITTER
Rachael Kirkoff
GRAND CHAMPION SHOWMAN
Jason Rice
RESERVE GRAND CHAMPION
SHOWMAN
Pamela S. Worley
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From left, Shelby Rarick, 11, showed Alimoe, her Main
Anjou cross steer who received reserve champion market
steer. Kristy Dietrich, 18, hangs onto Who, the grand
champion market steer at the 2003. Judge C.J. Farley,
Mount Joy, chose the winners at the 2003 Kutztown Fair
Beef Show.
‘Who’ Helps Dietrich
Place High
KUTZTOWN (Berks Co.) Who, a Black Angus steer, can be
confused for a dog and Kristy Dietrich is going to be sad to let him
go-
“I cry every year,” she said. “This year is going to be especially
hard.”
Kristy, the 18-year-old daughter of Janies and Donna Dietrich, did
extremely well at the Kutztown Fair steer show. She took grand
champion showman and fitter and grand champion market steer with
Who, her best county steer so far.
Kristy said she had her hopes high, but anything can happen. She
was confident because Who was by her side. She said her homebred
steer is like a dog. He moos to wake her up in the morning and cud
dles up to her when she is taking care of him throughout the day.
The Dietrich family lives on a large beef farm in Hamburg, where
Kristy has grown up around steers and become accustom to working
with them.
“I am so proud of her, because she deserves it. She is such a hard
worker and she always does her own work,” her
mom Donna Dietrich said. “ Her dad and I just
drove her around.”
Kristy is a 2003 graduate of Tulpehocken High
School. She will attend Penn State starting at the
end of the month for animal sciences and all her
premiums go into the savings account to pay for
college.
Eleven-year-old Shelby Rarick, of Fleetwood,
likes to raise sheep, but she fared very well at the
steer show.
Shelby’s Main Anjou cross steer, Alimoe, is re
serve grand champion market steer and her Sim
mental Felicity earned supreme champion female
at the 2003 Beef Show. Shelby lives on a beef farm
in Fleetwood.
This is Dietrich’s last year showing with 4-H,
but she still has Allentown and Oley fairs left with
Who. Then she will sell him at the roundup in
September.
“It is going to be hard,” Dietrich said. “I guess it
never is easy.”
MARKET BEEF
Lightweight: 1. Cassandra Spatz. 2. Jason Levan 3 Gwen E.
Powers.
Champion lightweight: Cassandra Spatz.
Reserve: Jason Levan.
Light middleweight: 1. Nathan A. Dietnch. 2. Todd L. Benne
coff. 3. Cathtyn M. Levan.
Middleweight: 1. Shelby L. Rarick. 2. Alyssa Dietnch. 3. Kristy
Dietnch.
Heavyweight: 1. Knsty Dietrich. 2. Enn . Dietrich. 3. Wyatt Geh
nnger.
Champion heavyweight: Kristy Dietnch
Reserve: Enn L. Dietnch.
Senior fitting- 1. Kristy Dietnch. 2. Cathryn M Levan. 3. Dean
Dietnch.
Intermediate fitting- 1. Gwen E. Powers 2. Todd L. Bennecoff.
3. Nathan P. Stump.
Fitting junior 1:1. Cassandra Spatz. 2. Wyatt Gehnnger. 3. Jus
tine A. Bennecoff.
Fitting junior 2:1. Alyssa Dietnch 2. Shelby L. Ranck. 3. Samu
el Stump.
Senior showing: 1. Knsty Dietnch. 2. Cathryn M. Levan. 3. Enn
L. Dietnch.
Intermediate showing: 1. Todd L. Bennecoff. 2. Gwen E. Pow
ers. 3. Jason Levan.
Showing junior 1:1. Cassandra Spatz. 2. Wyatt Gehnnger. 3.
Justine A. Bennecoff.
Showing junior 2: 1. Shelby L. Ranck. 2. Samuel Stump. 3
Alyssa Dietnch.
GRAND CHAMPION FITTER
Knsty Dietnch
RESERVE GRAND CHAMPION FITTER
Cathryn M. Levan
GRAND CHAMPION SHOWMAN
Knsty Dietnch
RESERVE GRAND CHAMPION
SHOWMAN
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Champion middleweight. Shelby L. Ranck.
Reserve: Alyssa Dietnch.
GRAND CHAMPION
Knsty Dietnch
RESERVE GRAND CHAMPION
Shelby L. Ranch
BEEF FITTING AND SHOWING