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| Fair Briefs Part 2 - September 1, 2010 |
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Ashland Co. welcomes Englet as fair manager
ASHLAND, Ohio — The Ashland County Agricultural Society is pleased to announce Steve Englet has been hired as its new fair manager. Englet comes to the board highly recommended with a broad range of business experience in and about the Ashland County area.
The thirty-year Montgomery Township resident grew up in and around the Sullivan and Homerville areas attending the Black River Schools and completed high school as a Northwestern graduate. He was employed at Ashland’s Timkin Manufacturing for 29 years.
Englet serves on the board of Associated Charities and is on the Advisory Board of First Merit Bank. The Ashland County Fair will be the week of Sept. 19-25. Check out the website at www.ashlandcountyfair.com for more information and a schedule.
Orme gets top exhibit prize at Indiana State Fair
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — Callie Orme’s Personality project exhibit was named the best Personality exhibit out of 206 at the Indiana State Fair. This is quite an honor, given that Rush County annually has more than 150 non-livestock exhibits at the state fair.
Orme, the 18-year old daughter of Blair and Natasha Orme, is a member of the Center Lucky Sodbusters 4-H Club and also exhibits beef, horse and pony and sewing. She took heed of all project requirements for her exhibit, including teaching a friend how to make his or her own monthly budget and then describing the teaching experience. Budgeting is difficult for many, practiced by few and foreign to some, yet Orme took the opportunity to learn and project herself into a realistic budget situation.
She belongs to the Rush County 4-H Jr. Leaders organization. A senior at Rush County High School, Orme is a member of the Rushville FFA, Student Council, the Holcad staff, gymnastics team and a varsity cheerleader. She is also involved with the Wee Ministry at Center Christian Church. Her future plans include attending college to attain a degree in psychology.
Young Beef Producers awarded at Illinois State Fair
URBANA, Ill. — The 14th annual Superior Young Beef Producer Award (SYBPA) competition took place Aug. 11 at the Illinois State Fair in Springfield. 4-H and FFA members vied for one of five $1,000 scholarships based on their production-related skills and knowledge of the beef industry.
Those receiving scholarships include Kurt Berg of Warren, Jake Bloomberg of Berwick, Brian Buss of Bowen, Heather Kiner of Mendota and Sarah Kramer of Farina. This year 26 youth participated in the program, sponsored by Archer Daniels Midland Co.
In the skill-a-thon, the top winners included Buss, Bloomberg and Berg. In the management test, Kramer, Berg and Kiner sorted to the top. The judging competition top three winners included Kaci McAfee of Piasa, Berg and Kiner.
The contest is open to youth ages 14 and older who are enrolled in a 4-H or FFA beef project. Members of the Illinois Extension State Animal Systems Team develop and coordinate the contest.
Five young swine producers take home scholarships
URBANA, Ill. — Top youth in the swine industry competed for the Superior Young Swine Producer awards at the Illinois State Fair two weeks ago.
The top five Illinois youth receiving $1,000 scholarships from Archer Daniels Midland Co. in Decatur and a plaque from the Land of Lincoln Purebred Livestock Breeders Assoc. and the Illinois State Fair include Lucas Helton of Strasburg, Ashley Kauffman of Danvers, Wade Springer of Hopedale, Luke Rincker of Strasburg and Amy Loschen of Kempton.
In the swine management test, Loschen, Rincker and Springer sorted themselves to the top and received plaques for their achievements. In the skill-a-thon, Renae Halverson of DeKalb, Kauffman and Loschen made the top three. In the judging competition, Shelby Boose of Georgetown, Kauffman and Loschen took home the highest honors.
Illinois Pork Premiere Carcass winners announced
URBANA, Ill. — Lauren Honegger of Livingston County took home top honors in the Junior Pork Premiere Carcass Show at the Illinois State Fair.
Honegger’s 273-pound Yorkshire barrow was named Junior Pork Premiere Champion and Junior Land of Lincoln Champion. As well, it was the Open Land of Lincoln Champion.
Her barrow had a hot carcass weight of 211 pounds with 0.5 inch of backfat and a 10.3 square-inch loineye. Her barrow gained 0.804 pound of lean gain per day, and scored well on qualitative measures such as color, marbling, firmness and pH.
The Reserve Champion Junior Premiere Carcass Show winner was exhibited by Mike Zehr of Tazewell County, with a 290-pound crossbred barrow with a hot carcass weight of 211 pounds, 1 inch of backfat and a 9.9 square-inch loineye. Zehr’s barrow scored 0.803 pound of lean gain per day.
Dan Jennings, University of Illinois extension animal systems educator, said pigs were nominated and tattooed last spring. Live and carcass data were collected throughout the contest; these figures were used to calculate the pounds of lean gain per day to establish rankings. In addition, qualitative measures were taken for loin color, marbling, firmness and pH.
Champion honors in the Open Premiere Carcass Show were awarded to Darvin Miller of McLean County, with a 298-pound crossbred barrow that had a 9.3 square-inch loineye area with 0.9 inch of backfat and 0.825 pound of lean gain per day. Reserve champion honors in the Open Premiere also went to Miller, with a 281-pound crossbred barrow that yielded 0.819 pound of lean gain per day on test.
Behrmann’s Packing Co. of Albers, Ill., assisted and helped coordinate this educational event. |
| 9/1/2010 |
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