Thursday, August 22nd, 2013
Livestock grand, reserve champions sell at auction
Photo by Mark Pummell/The Daily Standard
The gallon of dairy cattle milk was presented by Ross Reichert, son of Larry and Lynne Reichert. He is a member of the Cassella Buckeyes 4-H Club. The milk was purchased for $14,175 by Mercer County Dairy Association, White Eagle Dairy Co-op, Marion Young Farmers, Fennig-Homan Agri-Business, Overman Trucking, Coldwater Young Farmers, Bohman Ag Service, Bohman Trucking Inc., Jim Stammen/Beck's Seed, Huelsman Automotive, Kahlig Brothers Custom Pumping, Lefeld Equipment, Farm Credit Service, Junior Fair Boosters, Prengers Inc., Hart Nutritional Consulting, Kleinhenz Brothers Livestock, Precision Strip Inc., Peoples Bank Co., Trupointe Co-Op, Roessner Energy Products, Maria Stein Grain, Vantilburg Farms, Farm Credit Service, K&L Tractor Sales, Harvest Sun Farm LLC, Buschur Feeds, Mescher Farms, Werling & Sons, Egbert Livestock, Nor J Farms, Cisco Funeral Homes, St. Henry Bank, Celina Insurance Group, State Rep. Jim Buchy, Dippold Family Enterprises Ltd., Wenning Dairy LLC, North Star Hardware & Implement, COBA Select Sires, Ryan Aberle-Cargill Inc., Dairy Farmers of America/Ted Siefring, W.H. Dick & Sons-Hellarth Funeral, Uhlenhake Dairy, Glacier Hill Farm, ADM/Dave Schlater, Paul Bruns Excavating/Beck Bruns, Wuebker Farm, Gold Top Farm, Bruns Farm, Huelsman Automotive, Reichert Dairy Farm, David Bertke, Blue Ribbon Feed Mill, Fennig Equipment, Seth and Amanda Kohnen, Houts Partnership, Coldwater Auction Service, Mercer County Commissioner John E. Bruns, Second National Bank, Poor Jack Amusements, Seitz Electric, Bee Gee Realty, Bill and Kathy Howard, St. Henry Tile, Grand Lake Builders Supply, Helena Chemical Co., Goettemoeller Agriculture Lime, Big K Mills Inc., Larry and Kathy Schmitmeyer, Menke Consulting, Cy Schwieterman Inc., Pineview Pumping, North Star Plumbing, Heating and Cooling, Celina Animal Hospital, Celina Moose 1473, Joe and Carol Meyer Dairy and Burtch Seed. The milk money is divided among the winning exhibitor, all other dairy exhibitors not selling other species, the livestock auction committee expenses and the dairy exhibitor fund.