14r—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 26,1971
The first spade of earth is turned
Tuesday at the construction site of the new
Organic Plant Food Company facility.
Handling the shovel are left to right, Don
Dodson, Organic salesman, Bill Brubaker,
Organic Plant Co. Breaks Ground
Organic Plant Food Company
officially broke ground for a
new 15,000 square foot proces
sing plant and warehouse facili
ty on Tuesday afternoon
Participating in the cere
monies weie Bill Biubaker,
Organic president, Lloyd Hess,
office manager, Don Dodson,
salesman, and Don Lemg, con
stiuction superintendent lepie
senting the general contractors,
Rice and Weidman Company of
Lancastei
The new plant will be off
Haitman Station Road adja
cent to the New Holland bianch
of the Penn Cential Raihoad
The land foi the plant was pait
of a faim foimerly owned by
John E Landis Oiganic is pie
sently located on Grofftown
Road in Lancastei
Plans foi the new site in
clude a new office facility, ex
panded dry blending opeia
tions,, enlaiged anhydious am
monia stoiage capacity, and ad
dition of a 4,000 square foot
warehouse The new plant will
become the operations head
quarteis foi the company The
move to the new location was
a result of the impi ovements to
Pa Route 23
According to Biubakei, the
new plant will double the com
pany’s diy stoiage capacity and
modernize all the bulk handling
facilities Included in the plans
foi the plant will be a bagging
installation that will peimit the
pioducts to be packaged at the
plant The stoiage available foi
the anhydi ous ammonia will be
moie than doubled
Initial giadmg of the con
stiuction site is aheady under
way with the target date for
completion of the pi eject mid-
November
Organic has two other parcels
of land in the building site
which are available for future
development Brubaker noted
the possibility of the land be
ing sold to other agriculture
related industiies foi plant 01
sales locations
Babies Eat a Lot
A baby will eat moie than
140 times its own bnth weight
in its fiist yeai ‘including
milk dnd about 2do pounds of
li uit, vegetables, meat and
eggs }ii according to Gerbei sta
tisticians
Organic president, and Lloyd Hess Or
ganic office manager. At the extreme left
is Don Lemg, construction superintendent
with Rice and Weidman Company.
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