| Weigh-in is first step toward livestock sale |
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| Written by News Release | |||
| Wednesday, 18 February 2009 03:00 | |||
Delta County 4-He’ers and FFA students weighed in their prospective market beef on Saturday, Feb. 7.
Excitement was high for the 70 local kids who brought 92 steer and two heifers to be weighed in, because the annual beef weigh-in is the first step toward raising beef for the 2009 Junior Market Livestock Sale, which will be held in August during the Delta County Fair. All but 10 of the animals weighed in qualify for the Delta County Bred & Fed program, which certifies to buyers that the animals they are purchasing were bred and raised in Delta County. Initial weights ranged from 488 to 1,111 pounds. With the beef weigh-in over, these 4-H and FFA kids will now concentrate on raising the best beef possible to offer to buyers over the auction block this summer. Last year, at the 2008 Delta County Fair, 53 local kids sold their beef to the generous buyers listed below for total sales of $130,050. For more information on how you can support Delta County kids through the Delta County Fair’s Junior Market Livestock Sale, call the Delta Extension Office, at 874-2195.Thank you to our 2008 beef buyers: Bank of Colorado, Bank of the West, Benson Brothers, Black Mesa Lodge, Bolinger & Queen, Bowie Resources, Ltd., Buyers’ Pool, Callaway Meats, Cooper Family Chiropractic, Cottage Care, Arlo and Susan Cox, Crawford Country Bank, Cunningham’s Auction Service, Delta County Memorial Hospital, Delta Elevator, Delta Hardware, Delta Implement, Delta Motor Parts, Delta Orthopedic - Dr. John Knutson, Delta Sales Yard, Inc., Delta Sand & Gravel/United Co., Dependable Lumber, Desperado, DMEA, Doyle Petroleum Co., First Colorado National Bank, First State Bank of Hotchkiss, West Homestead Meats, Hotchkiss Automotive, Hotchkiss Elks Lodge, Fred and Jeannie Jardine, JC Propane, Glen King, Kwiki Tire I, Kwiki Tire II, Alison Lewis, Master Petroleum Company, McLaughlin Land & Cattle, Pat and Frank Meryhew, Mountain Coal Company, Nelson Land & Livestock, NV Equine, Oxbow Mining, Paonia State Bank, Pro Electrical Contractors, Red Hat Foods, Red Hat Foods – Denver, Rocky Mountain Enterprises, Rocky Mountain Steel, Rounds & Brooks, CPA, Shaffer Real Estate, Shea Feedlot & Farms, Sisson Feed & Seed, Dwayne Stefan, Tracy’s Camp Stool Ranch, Turnbull Land & Livestock, Wells Fargo Bank, West Slope Ag Center, Wildcat Drilling & Pump, Wilmore & Company, and Don and Sandy Yale.
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