—Lancaster Farming. Saturday, August 10, 1974
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Overseas Visitors Tour
Pennfield Egg Operation
One item of interest on the Pennfield tour for
foreign poultrymen was the manure dehydrating
plant. Here, Hendrink Wentink, of Pennfield, and a
visitor examine a batch of the clean, dry and odorless
end product.
These Hungarian poultrymen are peering into one
of the light-controlled laying houses at Pennfield’s
automated laying operation near Ephrata.
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Two busloads of foreign
visitors descended on
Pennfieid Corporation’s
number two egg farm near
Ephrata on Monday. The
visitors made the stop as
part of a tour of poultry
operations throughout the
eastern half of the U. S.
They’re all on their way to
the 15th World Poultry
Congress scheduled to get
underway Sunday, August
11, in New Orleans.
The Pennfieid operation at
Ephrata is believed to be the
first automated “in-line”
egg production-processing
unit in the world, and was
built in 1965-66. The foreign
poultrymen saw a total of
nine houses, each with some
30,000 layers. They viewed
every step of the way as the
eggs traveled in an even flow
from the cages to the car
tons. They asked questions
about feeding, lighting,
manure disposal, marketing,
interest rates and birds.
Laszlo Sentirmai, a
Hungarian who acted as -
interpreter for the first bus
load of 39 visitors, told
Lancaster Farming that he
was very impressed with the
Pennfieid laying operation.
Sentirmai is the director of a
poultry processing plant in
the southwestern portion of
Hungary.
There were a great many
Hungarians on the tour,
along with Russians,
English, Swedes, Danes,
Yougoslavs, Czechs, and one
Iranian. An American, Gil
Eddy, was tour leader for the
first busload. Eddy is
market development
manager for Diamond In
ternational. Before the start
of the tour, Eddy presented a
plaque to Donald Horn and
Glenn Herr honoring Penn
fieid for creating the first
large in-line laying complex.
Horn and Herr are Pennfieid
executives.
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Hendrink Wentink, left, shows a Ephrata. The visitors were in this
group of Hungarian visitors around country to attend the 15th World
Pennfield Corp.’s completely Poultry Congress in New Orleans.
automated layer operation near
Pennfield Corp.’s Glenn Herr, left, International. The plaque honors
and Donald Horn, center, accepted a Pennfield for building the first in-line
plaque Monday from Gil Eddy, market egg facility in the world,
development manager for Diamond
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