Lehigh County 4-H’ers Sell Livestock Projects at Allentown Fair
Submitted by Editor on Fri, 09/11/2009 - 11:14am.
Lou Ann Good
Reporter
ALLENTOWN, Pa. — Lorissa Lazarus, 19, wrapped up her 4-H career of showing steers, sheep, hogs, rabbits and goats at the Allentown Fair Livestock Auction last Saturday when she sold her prize-winning animals.
“I’m shedding some tears for selling my steer,” Lorrisa said. But the Breinigsville youth wiped away her tears to add that winning grand champions in market lamb and rabbit pen and the reserve in market steer competitions was a great finale after participating in Lehigh County 4-H since she was 8- years-old.
Wyatt Gehringer, 19, also wrapped up his 4-H career by selling his grand champion market steer, an Angus crossbreed named Rehmus. “It’s a good ending to my final year,” he said. His 1,260-pound steer sold for $2,100 to Springfield Meat Company, Richlandtown, Pa.
Lorissa’s 1,180-pound reserve sold for $1,300 to Growmark FS Crops Protection. Her champion market lamb sold for $525 to Hartman Roofing, Mertztown, Pa.; and her rabbit pen to Suburban Car Wash, Catasauqua, Pa.
In his first and last year of showing hogs, Bryan Dietrich, 18, clinched the grand champion title with his 278-pound market hog named Power Stroke.
Although a newcomer in the hog competition, Bryan, from Allentown, previously showed beef for many years in 4-H. He said his girlfriend shows hogs and encouraged him to raise one also. He and his girlfriend walked their hogs together to prepare them for the show. It paid off. Bryan received $380 from Springfield Meat Company for Power Stroke.
Bryan was also presented the Ben Zazarus Memorial Trophy for showing the grand champion.
Todd Wessner, 16, of Germansville, Pa., showed two of the 33 goats he raises on his grandparents’ Rocky Acres Farm in New Tripoli to clinch both champion and reserve placings. He sold the 83-pound bred-and-owned champion to Wessner’s Landscaping for $500.
In his first year of showing, 11-year-old Cameron Harris, New Tripoli, clinched the grand champion title with his dairy beef named Ike. Mike Firestine of Fulton Bank paid $500 for the Holstein dairy beef.
Auctioneer Ralph Zettlemoyer called the bids for the auction, which included 28 hogs, 13 dairy beef, 12 goats, nine steers, five lambs and two rabbit pens. Sales totaled $40,290.
