A36-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 25, 2003
Owner-Bred Entries Fill Carbon County Goat Show
DEANNA CUNFER
Carbon Co. Correspondent
PALMERTON (Carbon Co.)
The 4-H market and 4-H and
Open dairy goat shows were re
cently conducted during the Car
bon County Fair.
Judge Gwen Soult, of Perry
County, raises and exhibits Al
pine and Nubian goats. Soult is
attending Bucknell University,
majoring in rural sociology.
As champion fitter and cham
pion showman of the 4-H market
goat competition, Soult selected
Laura Mazur from the intermedi
ate class. Mazur, 14, is the
daughter of Diane Fisher and
completed the sheep, dairy beef,
and market goat projects this
year. Mazur, of Too Busy Acres
near Weatherly, is in the ninth
grade at Weatherly High School.
Soult selected th 62-pound
winner of the medium weight
class, exhibited by Sarah Miller,
as her grand champion market
goat. Soult described the champi
on as having the highest body ca
pacity while being structurally
correct with outstanding muscle.
During the annual 4-H livestock
sale, Houser Auctioneers of New
Ringgold was high bidder at $BOO
for this animal.
Reserve champion market goat
honors went to the heavy weight
class winner, the bred-and-owned
69-pound entry of Josh Kemmer
er. Kemmerer, 18, is in his last
year of 4-H competition and
starting his second year of studies
at Penn State-Lehigh campus
majoring in ag engineering.
Winners of the 4-H and Open Dairy Goat shows of the Carbon County Fair are shown,
from left: Sarah Miller with her 4-H and open grand champion Nubian; Gwen Soult,
judge; Josh Kemmerer with his 4-H and open grand champion recorded grade and Kevin
Miller with his grand champion LaMancha of the Open Dairy Goat Show. Sarah Miller’s
Nubian, Jasperhollow Jarrett Mink, captured the Best Doe of Show honors.
Maryland Receives $440,975 For Risk Management Education
ANNAPOLIS, Md. A total
of $440,975 in new partnership
agreements with the USDA Risk
Management Agency will allow
the Maryland Department of Ag
riculture (MDA) to build on its
success in helping farmers man
age their business risks with crop
insurance.
Maryland is aifiong IS states
nationwide targeted by the
USDA to boost participation
rates in crop insurance.
Recent efforts by MDA and
the University of Maryland to ed
ucate farmers on the value of
crop insurance have been effec
tive. Crop insurance participa
tion increased by 15.8 percent
over the last two years, with more
than $162.4 million of protection
Sarah Miller, 14, is shown with her 62-pound grand
champion market goat of the Carbon County Fair. Miller
was also named the reserve champion fitter of the market
goat competition. Houser Auctioneers, New Ringgold, was
the high bidder at the 4-H livestock sale at a bid of $BOO.
In the dairy goat show, Sarah
Miller’s Nubian, Jasperhollow
Jarrett Mink, took home both the
4-H and open senior and grand
champion Nubian doe rosettes.
This doe also captured the Best
Doe of Show banner, competing
against a LaMancha shown by
Kevin Miller and a recorded
grade doe shown by Josh Kem
merer.
on 715,484 acres covered in 2003.
After the devastating drought
of 2002, Maryland farmers re
ceived $23.4 million from crop in
surance, which is almost equal to
the amount farmers had received
over the previous five years com
bined.
“Crop insurance payments
helped support our farmers dur
ing an incredibly tough year,”
said Maryland Secretary of Agri
culture Lewis R. Riley. “Risk
management is among the tools
that will help keep Maryland
farmers in the business of farm
ing. Like diversification of farm
enterprises, sound business man
agement and good stewardship, it
will help preserve agriculture and
farmland for the next
Sarah Miller also topped the
4-H junior market breeding goat
show with the champion fitter
and champion showman titles.
Her Boer doe, Richie Dean Farm
Faith, was named grand champi-
on.
The fair posted the following
results:
generation.”
The crop insurance education
and promotion project will com
bine the work of MDA staff and
University of Maryland Coopera
tive Extension faculty. Among
the project’s goals is the develop
ment of a computer software
package which will allow Univer
sity of Maryland faculty to work
with farmers to detail the value
of crop insurance to their opera
tion. MDA will promote crop in
surance at farmer meetings, nurs
ery farmer events, and through a
variety of targeted projects.
“Crop insurance is a valuable
risk management tool. These fed
eral partnership agreements will
be carefully managed to benefit
Maryland farmers,” said Riley.
4-H MARKET GOAT SHOW
FITTINQ AND SHOWMANSHIP
Senior fitting: 1 Rebecca Confer. 2. An
drew Miller. 3. Ashley Barry.
Senior showmanship; 1. Rebecca Conf
er. 2. Ashley Barry. 3. Andrew Miller.
Intermediate fitting: 1. Laura Mazor. 2.
Sarah Miller.
Intermediate showmanship: 1. Laura
Mazur. 2. Sarah Miller.
Champion Fitter Laura Mazur.
Reserve Champion Fitter Sarah Miller.
Champion Showman: Laura Mazur.
Reserve Champion Showman: Rebecca
Cunfer.
WEIGHT CLASSES
Lightweight; 1. Ashley Barry- 2. Amanda
Miller. 3. Ashley Barry.
Light heavyweight: 1. Ashley Barry. 2.
Sarah Miller. 3. Rebecca Cunfer.
Mediumweight: 1. Sarah Miller. 2. Josh
Kem merer. 3. Josh Kemmerer.
Heavyweight; 1. Josh Kemmerer. 2. Josh
Kemmerer. 3. Andrew Miller.
Bred and owned by exhibitor 1. Josh
Kemmerer. 2. Josh Kemmerer. 3. Josh
Kemmerer.
GRAND CHAMPION
Sarah Miller
RESERVE GRAND CHAMPION
Josh Kemmerer
4-H DAIRY GOAT SHOW
FITTING AND SHOWMANSHIP
Senior Fitting: 1. Josh Kemmerer.
Senior showmanship: 1. Josh Kemmerer.
Intermediate fitting; 1. Sarah Miller.
Intermediate showmanship; 1. Sarah
Miller.
Champion Fitter: Josh Kemmerer.
Reserve Champion Fitter Sarah Miller.
Champion Sh&wman: Sarah Miller.
Reserve Champion Showman: Josh
Kemmerer.
BREED CLASSES
NUBIAN
Doe, bom March 1 and after: 1. Sarah
Miller.
Junior Champion Nubian doe: Sarah
Miller.
doe, bom 8/1/2000 to 7/31/2001, in milk:
1. Sarah Miller. 2. Sarah Miller.
Senior Champion Nubian doe: Sarah
Miller.
Reserve Senior Champion Nubian doe;
Sarah Miller.
Doe, bred and owned by exhibitor: 1.
Sarah Miller.
Josh Kemmerer, 18, is shown with his 69-pound bred
and owned reserve champion market goat of the Carbon
County Fair. Herman B. Snyder Plumbing and Heating, Le
highton, purchased the animal at the 4-H livestock sale at
a high bid of $450.
Maryland’s funding comes
from two separate federal part
nership agreements: $379,275 to
MDA and $61,700 of $343,000
awarded to the Pennsylvania De-
Best udder Sarah Miller.
GRAND CHAMPION
Sarah Miller
RESERVE GRAND CHAMPION
Sarah Miller
OPEN DAIRY GOAT SHOW
BREED CLASSES
NUBIAN
Doe, born March 1 and after 1. Kevin
Miller. 2. Sarah Miller.
Doe, bom 8/1/2001 to 7/31/2002, not in
milk: 1. Kevin Miller.
Junior Champion Nubian doe: Kevin Mill
er.
Reserve Junior Champion Nubian doe;
Kevin Miller.
Doe, bom 8/1/2000 to 7/31/2001, in milk:
1. Sarah Miller. 2. Sarah Miller.
Senior Champion Nubian doe; Sarah
Miller.
Reserve Senior Champion Nubian doe:
Sarah Miller.
Doe, bred and owned by exhibitor 1.
Sarah Miller.
Produce of dam: 1. Kevin Miller.
Best udder Sarah Miller.
GRAND CHAMPION
Sarah Miller
RESERVE GRAND CHAMPION
Kevin Miller
LaMANCHA
Doe, bom before 8/1/2000, in milk; 1.
Kevin Miller.
Senior Champion LaMancha doe: Kevin
Miller.
Best udder: Kevin Miller.
GRAND CHAMPION
Kevin Miller
4-H AND OPEN DAIRY
GOAT SHOW
RECORDED GRADE
Doe, bom before 8/1/2000, in milk: 1.
Josh Kemmerer. 2. Josh Kemmerer.
Senior Champion Recorded Grade doe;
Josh Kemmerer.
Reserve Senior Champion Recorded
Grade doe: Josh Kemmerer.
Doe, bred and owned by exhibitor 1.
Josh Kemmerer.
Best udder Josh Kemmerer.
GRAND CHAMPION
Jose Kemmerer
RESERVE GRAND CHAMPION
Josh Kemmerer
BEST DOE OF SHOW
Sarah Miller’s Nubian
partment of Agriculture from the
USDA for a regional educational
effort on risk management for
farmers.