
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, April 26, 1990                   TAG: 9004260566
SECTION: BUSINESS                    PAGE: B-7   EDITION: EVENING 
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PRIME BEEF SHOWN IN STATE SHOW

The Virginia Beef Exposition, showcasing eight major breeds of seed-stock cattle from Virginia, is being held at the Rockingham County Fairgrounds this weekend.

More than 250 head of cattle - Angus, Red Angus, Charolais, Polled Hereford, Limousin, Simmental, Salers and Shorthorn - will be shown and sold Friday and Saturday at the Harrisonburg show.

The event gets under way Friday with a celebrity beef cookoff from 10 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. at the pavilion behind the fairgrounds' exhibit hall. Among the participants will be John Huston, president of the National Livestock and Meat Board in Chicago.

Beginning at noon in the rodeo arena will be a working dog demonstration, featuring border collies herding cattle. An all-you-can-eat beef festival will be held from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Friday night.

Saturday at 10 a.m. a working rodeo contest will be held in a tent outside the beef barns. A team roping and cutting horse competition will be held at noon in the rodeo arena. A calf scramble for children under 12 will be held at 1 p.m. in the rodeo arena.

For more information and to order tickets for Friday night's food festival call (703) 992-5971.

by CNB