Maryland Brown Swiss Show Held
By REBECCA LONG CHANEY

FREDERICK – Judge Jacob Hushon of Ft. Atkinson, Wis., placed 99 head
of Brown Swiss cattle from Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia at the
Maryland State Brown Swiss Show held here at the Frederick Fairgrounds
recently. With early week temperatures soaring over 100, the weather
cooled to a pleasant 85-degree day bringing spectators from several
states to see Emmy and Bob Covell of Knoxville, Md., take senior and
grand champion honors with their junor three-year-old, Covells Tex
Chloe ET.

Emmy and Bob Covell of Knoxville won the senior and grand champion
honors at the Maryland Brown Swiss Show held recently at the Frederick
Fairgrounds. From left, are, Nichell Upton, Maryland Brown Swiss
Princess; Tess Wiles, Maryland Dairy Princess; Show Chairperson Bonnie
Remsberg; Jen Hill holding the reserve junior champion; Bob and Emmy
Covell and granddaughter Maddie with the junior champion; Jeffrey
Hubbard Jr. with the reserve senior and reserve grand champion Brown
Swiss; and Chip Savage holding the Covells’ champion Brown Swiss; and
Judge Jacob Hushon.

The reserve senior and grand champion honors went to Jeffrey Hubbard
Jr.’s senior three-year-old, Dublin Hills Shirlyn. Jeffrey lives in
Lewistown, Md., and his cow was also named senior and grand champion
of of the 4-H show. The 4-H reserve senior and 4-H reserve grand
champion was Pine Croft Precise Eunice Mist, a senior two-year-old,
owned by Cassidy Schirmer of Galena, Md.

In the 4-H show, Jeffrey Hubbard Jr. took top honors. From left, are,
Tess Wiles, Maryland Dairy Princess; Judge Jacob Hushon; Tyler Bruchey
with his reserve junior champion; Amanda Thompson with her junior
champion; Cassidy Schirmer with her reserve senior and reserve grand
champion Brown Swiss; and Jeffrey Hubbard Jr. with his senior and
grand champion Brown Swiss; Nichelle Upton, Maryland Brown Swiss
Princess and Show Chairperson Bonnie Remsberg.

Amanda Thompson’s summer yearling, Towpath Shen-Val PS Princess was named the 4-H junior champion. Amanda hails from Wellsville, Penn.
Sycamore Knoll Ambers Flame, a winter calf, owned by Tyler Bruchey of
Westminster, Md., was named reserve 4-H junior champion. In the open
devision, the Covells fall yearling, Shen-Val Denver Tiago ET won the
junior champion rosette. The reserve junior champion honor went to a
spring calf, Whit-Hill Narcissa, owned by Kathy Whitman, Chris and Jen
Hill of Thurmont, Md.

The 2010 Mid-Atlantic Brown Swiss Futurity banner went to Jarrett
Remsberg of Middletown, Md., with his junior two-year-old Top Acres
Supreme Fiesta ET. Fiesta was purchased at the Mid-Atlantic Brown
Swiss Calf Sale. The top Maryland junior award was presented to
Jeffrey Hubbard Jr. with Dublin Hills Lilea and the overall junior
award was presented to A.J. Bassler of Upperville, Va., with Old Mill
Frag Serene ET. The Futurity Best Bred and Owned winner was Old Mill
Sot Tracy owned by Lorraine Bassler of Upperville, Va., and the
Genetic Merit Award winner was Wind Mill Agenda Vicky owned by Eric,
Faith and Erin Burall of NewWindsor, Md.

Jarrett Remsberg of Middletown won the 2010 Mid-Atlantic
Brown Swiss Futurity recently at the Frederick Fairgrounds. From left,
are, Tess Wiles, Maryland Dairy Princess; Carissa Doody, Alternate
Maryland Dairy Princess; Nichelle Upton, Maryland Brown Swiss
Princess; Tommy Remsberg; Jarrett Remsberg; Bonnie Remsberg; Nicole Hood, Maryland Swiss Miss; Judge Jacob Hushon; and Maryland Brown Swiss President Cindy Warner.

Matt Fry of Chestertown judged 19 enthusiastic young people in Friday
night’s showmanship competition. Emma Seekford of McGaheysville, Va.,
won the junior class and Grant Zimmerman of Walkersville, Md., won the
intermediate division. In the senior competition, Cassidy Schirmer
took top honors.

Nineteen youth competed in an excellent showmanship contest. Winners
from left, are, Judge Matt Fry; Emma Seekford, junior winner; Grant
Zimmerman, intermediate winner; and Cassidy Schirmer, senior winner.

Class toppers included breeders from different regions of the Mid-
Atlantic area. In the spring calf class, the partnership of Kathy
Whitman, Chris and Jen Hill took first place in the open show and
Nichelle Upton of Woodsboro, Md., won the 4-H show. The Covells won
the open class winter calf class while Tyler Bruchey took the blue
ribbon in the 4-H show.

In the fall heifer calf class Fair Hill Farm of Chestertown, Md., won
first and Maegan Olson of Keymar won first in the 4-H division. Amanda
Thompson took first place in both the 4-H and open shows in the summer yearling class as did Jonathan Hubbard of Lewistown, Md., in the
spring yearling class. A.J. Bassler won first in the winter yearling
class in both the 4-H and open class divisions.

The Covells took the blue ribbon in the fall yearling class in the open
class division. Dublin Hills Farm, the Smith family of Woodsboro, Md.,
won first in the junior best three females in the open division and
Nichelle Upton won first in the 4-H division.

Lorraine Bassler won the dry cow class. Jarrett Remsberg won the open
class junior two-year-old class and A.J. Bassler won the 4-H ribbon.
In the senior junior two-year-old class Cassidy Schirmer won the blue
ribbons in both 4-H and open shows. In the junior three year-old-class
Jeffrey Hubbard Jr. took first in the 4-H show and the Covells won the
open division.

In the senior three-year-old class Jeffrey Hubbard Jr. won the 4-H and
open class divisions. Oak Spring Dairy of Upperville, Va., won the
four-year-old class and A.J. Bassler won the five-year-old class.
Amanda Bassler of Upperville, Va., won the component merit class.
Hoodstead Farm, the Hood family of Middletown, won the best three
females class.

The Maryland Brown Swiss Association hosted a state picnic following
Friday night’s showmanship competition. The group also met to discuss
plans in hosting the National Brown Swiss Convention in Frederick,
Md., July 6-9, 2011.

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