Agway men re-elected
The three top officers of
Agway Inc. were reelected
Oct. 31 following the Agway
annual meeting in Syracuse,
N.Y.
They are: George Steele,
chairman of the board and
president; Henry W. Bibus,
vice chairman of the board;
and Ronald N. Goddard,
executive vice president and
general manager.
Agway is guided by an 18-
member board of directors,
all of whom are farmers.
Steele, a Pocopson, Pa.,
dairyman, has served as
board chairman since 1971.
Prior to the founding of
Agway, when he became one
of its directors, he served as
vice president of Penn
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of Agway's predecessors.
A member of the Agway
board since 1964. Bibus, a
Wrightstown, N.J.,
vegetable and grain grower,
was first elected vice
chairman in 1971. For 18
years he had been a director
of Cooperative GLF Ex
change, another of Agway’s
predecessor organizations.
Goddard, the
organization’s chief
executive officer, has been
with Agway since 1937. He
held a number of key
positions in the cooperative’s
retail, planning, and
marketing operations before
being named assistant
general manager in 1968 and
general manager in 1969.
National Red Poll sale slated
Thirty-eight Red Poll
breeders from twelve states
will sell more than 100 lots of
registered Red Poll cattle at
Troy, Ohio, on November 13.
The cattle will be judged
during the forenoon of sale
day by Dr, Richard Vat
thaucr, extension animal
scientist, University of
Wisconsin. The auction is
schduled to begin at 12:30
p.m. e.s.t.
A likely-headliner in the
sale is Bordendale 0. Blue
Boy, a proved six-year-old
sire consigned by Mr. and
Mrs. Wm. W. Hoffine,
Lafayette, Indiana. Not only
is this bull a proved sire of
top cattle in the Hoffine herd,
the bull himself won the
grand champion award at
the 1971 National Red Poll
show. His dam was national
grand champion female two
years later.
The grand champion Red
Poll bull of the 1975 Min
nesota State Fair, the
reserve junior champion bull
of the 1973 Indiana State Fair
and the junior champion bull
of the 1975 Illinois State Fair
are among the consigned
bulls to be competing for
show and sale honors.
Vying with the Hoffine bull
for prime attention, will be
the young cow Pinpur
Heritage Starletta GR22-
CR162735, reserve grand
champion Red Poll female
1975 National Red Poll show.
The cow is consigned by her
institutiaonl breeder, Pinney
Purdue Agricultural Center,
Wanatah, Indiana, an
outlying experimental and
demonstration farm of
Purdue University. The cow
will sell with a bull calf at
side. The Pinney Purdue
station is noted for having
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done a more complete job of
beef performance testing of
its Red Poll herd over the
years than is known to have
been accomplised with any
other herd of any breed, in
the world.
Sixteen head of 91 females
consigned, in addition to the
national reserve champion,
have placed highly in
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Pinpur Heritage Starletta was the
reserve grand champion female at
the 1975 National Red Poll Show held
at the Indiana State Fair earlier this
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various major
county breed
several states.
Twelve of the 16 bulls have
weaning weight records
obtained in the breed’s own
programs. Unadjusted
weights at 205 days of age
average 644 lbs. with a top of
749 lbs. Seven of these 12
"Gain Registered" bulls also
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have 356-day weights, which
average 1127 lbs. to a top of
1201 lbs.
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Among the females, 49
head have official weaning
weight records, averaging
450 lbs., unadjusted. Twenty
three of the female records
Indicate 2.0 lbs. per day or
more of average gain to a top
of 2.S lbs.
year. She has been consigned to the
32nd annual National Red Poll Sale,
to take place in Troy, Ohio, on Nov. 13.
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