AlB-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 30, 2003
4-H Animal Projects Gamer Good Prices At Maryland State Fair
ANDY ANDREWS
Editor
TIMONIUM, Md. About
116 animals went on sale Sunday
night here at the Maryland State
Fair.
About 218 buyers registered at
the start of thj sale.
Grand c'iampion beef, exhibi
ted by Jacob Wolfrey, Frederick,
Md., sold for $3 per pound to
Greg Deggeller of Deggeller At
tractions. Reserve champion beef,
exhibited by Randi Rodeheaver,
was sold to Stony Brook Devel
opment, represented by Lou
Strosnider, for $3.70 per pound.
Grand champion exhibitor
Jacob Wolfrey, 18, is the son of
Dan and Judy Wolfrey, Freder
ick. The 2003 Sherando High
School graduate exhibited a
1,291-pound Angus/Chianina
crossbred. Jacob said he pur
chased the animal from a private
sale in Illinois.
This was Jacob’s first champi
on at the Maryland Fair. He
shows at the Frederick County
Fair in Maryland.
Reserve championßandi Ro
deheaver, 16, is the daughter of
Donald and Sharon Rodeheaver,
McHenry, Md. Randi, a junior at
Northern Garrett High School,
exhibited at the fair for her first
time and picked up her first
champion.
Randi exhibited a 1,170-pound
Maine Anjou crossbred steer pur
Reserve champion lamb at the Maryland State Fair, ex
hibited by Morgan Meisenheimer, right, was sold for $5
per pound to Becky Lynch, left. In center is Maryland
Lamb and Wool Queen Anna Schlicht.
chased at Sun Rise Club Calves
in Clearfield County, Pennsylva
nia. She nicknamed the steer
“Tweeter” after a character in
the “Varsity Blues” movie, she
said.
Meghan Norris exhibited
grand champion dairy steer.
Pearce Norris purchased the
1,288-pound steer for $1 per
pound.
In market hog competition,
Heather Willis, 14, won grand
champion hog with her
245-pound Hampshire crossbred.
The hog sold for $2.30 per pound
to Mike Birch.
Reserve champion hog was ex
hibited by Timmy Martin, 13,
Smithsburg. Jimmy Kimbles pur
chased the hog for $1.70 per
pound for Kimstead Farm.
Heather Willis, grand champi
on exhibitor, is the 14-year-old
daughter of Christopher and
Fran Willis, Walkersville, Md.
The Walkersville High School
10th grader exhibited the medi
um weight champion, a Hamp
shire crossbred. Heather also ex
hibits at the Frederick Fair. She
purchased the hog from the Hoo-
sier Sale in Ohio.
Reserve champion exhibitor fie liked the swine’s “good muscle
Timmy Martin, 13, is the son of definition.” He won reserve at the
Karen and Steve Martin, Smiths- Washington County Ag Expo. He
burg, Md. The Smithsburg Mid- also won first place at the Na
dle School eighth grader exhibi- Junior Swine Association
ted his first champion with a Spectacular in Louis
purebred Yorkshire homebred ville, Ky.
In 4-H/FFA market lamb com
petition, Christopher Utz exhibi-
the grand champion. Dennis
lendall, manager, Cornerstone
Antiques and Consignments, Ti-
Md., purchased the
JgKJB-pound champion for $7.50
Mfer pound. Kendall noted he
to “give back” to the 4-H
"program for all it means to him.
Jacob Wolfrey exhibited grand champion steer on Sunday at the Maryland State Fair,
right. The steer sold for $3 per pound to Greg Deggeller, Deggeller Attractions, center.
At left is Maryland State Fair Ambassador Sara Wiles. AH photos by Andy Andrews, editor
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