Bros Capture Manheim Two Top Beef Awards
Barry Longenecker 14 and Michael Longenecker 13 won grand and reserve grand champion steers at the Manheim Farm Show Baby Beef Judging held at Manheim Central Junior High School. Barry’s Angus steer earned top honors noted as thick and trim by Judge Gerald Hess. Michael’s Hereford off the Show earned reserve grand champion. Robert Hosler topped the Shorthorn class with an Angus Shorthorn cross, later winning best showmanship for youths with more than three years of experience. Barry won best showman among those with three years or less practice. The eighth graders are sons of Mr and Mrs Carl Longenecker.
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Barry
Michael Longenecker
Manhem
Manheim Central Junior High School
Angus
Gerald Hess
Northampton County
Thick
Michael
Carl Longenecker
Lititz
Robert Hosler
Manheim
Robert
Barry Longenecker
Longenecker
Pete
Amos
Carl
L. F
Dairy Judging At Manheim Show Closes Fair Season
On a chilly evening at the Manheim Farm Show the Dairy Judging event closed the fair season. Judge David Dunbar led with Brown Swiss and Ayrshire then the Holstein class as about 300 attendees filled in after the parade. Harold Brubaker won multiple Brown Swiss titles and Barbara Ann Kupp led Ayrshire wins with the 4 H and senior champions.
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Manheim
David Dunbar
Franklin County
Harold Brubaker
Mount Joy Rl
FFA
Gary Myer Lancaster
Ayrshire
Glenn Stauffer
Terry
Robert Kauffman
Elizabethtown
Robert Hess
Strasburg
Barbara Ann Kupp
Manhem
Paul N
Five Day Outlook With Cooldown Then Rain Likely
Temperatures over the next five days will average 2 to 7 degrees below the normal 67 in the afternoon and 46 at night. Cooler conditions predicted this weekend with gradual moderation next week. Rain Late Monday and Tuesday is expected to total more than half an inch.
Crop Prices Dip as Livestock Leads Gains
The Pennsylvania Crop Reporting Service notes overall prices fell one percent from a year ago driven by lower fruit and vegetable values. Apples down ten cents a bushel and peaches fifteen cents lower, while potatoes hit the strongest September price since 1952 at 300 dollars per hundredweight, offset by livestock product gains with hogs 60 cents per cwt higher, beef 30 cents up, and calves 10 cents higher per cwt. Wholesale milk rose to 490 dollars per cwt, three cents above last year.
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Pennsylvania Crop Reporting Service
4 H Awards At Dairy Banquet In Mount Joy
The annual 4H Dairy Banquet is set for Friday evening at Hossetters Banquet Hall Mount Joy with over 200 expected to attend. After dinner many awards will be presented to outstanding 4H club members for achievements during the past year. Grand Champion at the Pa Junior Daily Show Holstein Averil Roger 2025 Oregon Pike.
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Hossetters Banquet Hall
Mount Joy
Averiil Roger
NEPPCO Poultry Princess pageant selects 1965 winner
Dana Delamore, 17, Cambridge High School senior, Cambridge Maryland, crowned 1965 NEPPCO Poultry Princess after a suspenseful judging night. First Runner-up and Second Runner-up named. Delamore earns year of public appearances and a $500 savings bond. Contested by eight contestants before about 350 industry attendees at the Northeast Poultry Producers Council banquet.
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Mary A. Romberger
New Charlotte St
Manheim
Neppco
Harrisburg
L. F
Northeastern Poultry Producers Council
Milton Dunk
Poultry Tribune
Oscar Turner
Maine
Dana Delamore
Cambridge High School
Cambridge
Delamere
Otto B Hastings
Heim
Northeast
Mary A Romberger
Mark T Romberger
New Charlotte Street
Man
Shipping Fever in Cattle A Costly Fall Hazard
Shipping fever or pasterurellosis strikes young cattle moving from range to feedlot each autumn. The disease, linked to Pasteurella organisms, causes acute blood poisoning with fevers around 106 to 107 degrees.
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Everett Newswanger
Miss Manheim
Neppco Poultry
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