A34-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 27, 2003
Lampeter Conducts Separate 4-H, FFA Lamb Competitions
LOU ANN GOOD
Food And Family
Features Editor
LAMPETER (Lancaster Co.)
Sheep shows vary in rules and
divisions from place to place. At
West Lampeter Community Fair,
separate competitions for market
lambs are conducted for 4-H and
FFA members.
On Wednesday, Loren Hershey
experienced sweet success with
his breeding program by showing
the FFA grand champion market
lamb.
“It’s homebred, so it’s very re
warding,” Loren said. The son of
Les and Lois Hershey, Kirkwood,
has been improving his flock by
breeding for genetics for several
years. This was the first time he
achieved his goal.
Loren said that William Fuller,
a Little Britain farmer, gave the
breeding program a boast. Two
years, Fuller brought Loren’s
lamb at the fair sale, and donated
it back to Loren. That sheep
birthed this year’s prize winning
market lamb.
Called “Chance,” the lamb
had a “chancy”start. It was bom
with a broken leg and needed to
have its leg in a splint and be bot
tle fed for one month.
“I could tell from the begin
ning, that it had a really long
body so I k it was good,” Loren
said.
A senior and FFA member at
LMH, recently place first in state
competition for Farm Business
Management. He will represent
the state at the upcoming Nation
al FFA Association.
Loren said this is probably his
last year showing
sheep.
“I’ll pass mine on to
my 10-year-old broth
er Luke,” Loren said.
His flock includes four
ewes and eight rams.
In 4-H competition,
Farm Show
Manager
Appointed
HARRISBURG
(Dauphin Co.) Ag
riculture Secretary
Dennis C. Wolff an-
nounced the appoint-
ment of James Sharp
as the administrator
for the show manage
ment division of the
State Farm Show
Complex in Harris
burg.
As the show man
agement division ad
ministrator, Sharp will
oversee the details of
the All-American
Dairy Show (AADS),
the Keystone Interna
tional Livestock Expo
sition, and the com
petitive events at the
Pennsylvania Farm
Show.
As the All-Ameri
can Youth Judging
Contest Superinten
dent since 1996, Sharp
already has an under
standing of the work
ings of AADS. In ad
dition, he has a
bachelor’s degree in
agriculture from Ohio
State University. Most
recently, he has been
the area sales manager
of Genex Cooperative,
Inc. since 1995.
In 4-H competition, Tiffany. Dean shows the cham
pion market lamb. With her are John Eaton, judge,
and Ashleigh Gardner, fair queen.
Tiffany Dean topped the show (state) Farm Show,
with her homebred lamb Buddy. Kelsey Binkley was se
ifs brother won at Solanco Fair lected first in showman
last week. ship.
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Loren Hershey shows the FFA champion market lamb
selected by John Eaton. West Lampeter Fair Queen Ash
leigh Gardner presents the award.
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