Bloomsburg Fair Holds Livestock Sale
Submitted by Editor on Fri, 10/16/2009 - 11:43am.
The Bloomsburg Fair Livestock Sale grossed $88,078.41 in proceeds for 4-H’ers and FFA members selling their livestock animals.
The annual event featured 111 youth showing 264 animals which they have been raising over the past several months.
Kylie Kiess of Cogan Station, Pa. sold her grand champion market steer to Zeisloft Farm Equipment of Bloomsburg for $1.70 a pound. The reserve champion market steer, owned by Brynlin Carey of Montoursville, Pa. was sold to Deerview Homes/Richard Umstead of Unityville, Pa. for $1.05 a pound.
Brynlin Carey of Montoursville, Pa. sold her grand champion market lamb to Clover Club of Williamsport, Pa. for $2.25 a pound. The reserve champion market lamb, owned by Chandler Carey of Montoursville, Pa. was sold to Clover Club of Williamsport for $2.50 a pound.
The grand champion market goat was sold to Deerview Homes/Richard Umstead of Unityville for $3.25 a pound by David Crone of Danville, Pa. The reserve champion market goat, owned by Mallory Perchinski of White Deer, Pa., sold to Clark’s Ag Center of Turbotville, Pa. for $3.25 a pound.
The grand champion market hog was sold to Electrical Solution, Pioneer Seeds, Roger Lauver Auctioneer, Hoover Tractor Inc., Mifflinburg Farmers Exchange, B & K Construction and Packer’s Concessions for $12.25 a pound by D. J. Boop of Mifflinburg, Pa.. The reserve champion market hog, owned by Aiden Bomgardner of Mifflinburg, was sold to Boop’s Grain Farm, B & K Construction and C B Hoober Inc., for $4 a pound.
The sale averages were as follows: steers with champions, $1.05 per pound; lambs with champions, $2.23 per pound; goats with champions $2.37 per pound; hogs with champions, $1.30 per pound.
