—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, August 26,1978
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SMOKETOWN A new getting HP hybrid demon
line of seedcom introduced stration plots established at
to this area by P.L. Rohrer& the following locations:
Bros., Inc., has been ex- Raymond Good farm, Lititz;
tremely well received by Leroy' Esbenshade farm,
local growers, according to Manheim; Mark Hitz farm,
Willis Rohrer, president of Lebanon; Henry Balmer
the Smoketown seed firm. farm, Lampeter, and Ivan
Kauffman farm, Honey-
Brook.
There are farmers stop
, ping by nearly every day to
look over these plots, ac
cording to Garber. “Nearly
everyone we’ve talked to has
been very impressed by the
vigorous growth and healthy
appearance ot the com.”
The Rohrer’s have
distributed com hybrids for
DeKalb since 1940 and in
recent years became
associated with North
American Plant Breeders
(NAPB) as distributors for
other types of seeds. NAPB
reportedly is one of the
country’s most prestigious
“We’ve been involved in
seedcom distribution since
1940, but seldom have we
seen such interest and en
thusiasm as has been
created by the new HP
seedcom, said Rohrer,
adding that these hybrids
were introduced only this
year “more or less on a trial
basis.”
“This is some of the best
looking com we have ever
seen,” said Ralph Garber
referring to demonstration
plantings'made at several
locations. As sales coor
dinator at Rohrer’s, Garber
has been responsible for
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Placements of broiler chicks
in the commonwealth during
the week ending August 12
were 23 per cent above the
corresponding week a year
earlier, according to the
Pennsylvania Crop
Reporting Service.
Placements totaled
2,037,000, three per cent
above the previous week.
Average placements of
broiler chicks ' in Penn
sylvania during the past nine
weeks were 15 per cent
above a year earlier.
In the 21 key poultry
producing states placement*
were 68,166,000, two per cent
below the previous week but
seven per cent more than the
same week a year earlier.
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Broilers up
Average placements in the
21 states during the past nine
weeks were eight per cent
above a year ago.
The number of broiler
fryers slaughtered in
Pennsylvania under federal
inspection during the week
ending August 2, was
1,772,000, with an average
weight of 3.93 pounds.
A National Highway
Traffic Safety Ad
ministration report
estimates that 200,000 lives
have been saved since the
Safety Act of 1966, which
began the chain of safety
improvements in our
passenger cars.
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breeders of forages, notably
Apollo alfalfa. This was the
first commercial variety
offering high levels of
resistance to Phytophthora
disease, also known as “wet
foot” condition in alfalfa.
Still newer in Vangard, a
variety bred to overcome
another important alfalfa
disease, anthracnose.
Frequently referred to as
“Summer decline”, an
thracnose, like
Phytophthora, is said to
have caused significant
losses in Pennsylvania.
“We weren’t interested in
the com at first, as we
already represented a major
seedcom line. But two of our
people, visiting NAPB
facilities in the Midwest on
other business, came back
very enthused about this
growing phase of the plant
breeder’s operations,” Willis
Rohrer recalled.
In the Big Valley area, not
far from State College, a
com demonstration plot was
put in under the sponsorship
of one of Rohrer’s wholesale
clients, Union Mill Soil
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Byier, the owner of this
business, explained that it
was a tough Spring for com
in their area. “Our plot was
flooded out and germination
problems showed up in some
of the early plantings due to
wet, cold conditions.” Even
so, he says Union Mill
customers planted around
100 bags of various HP
numbers, in addition to 80
acres Byier planted himself.
“Several of these hybrids
look very good,” he said,
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adding that he’ll recommend
increased plantings next
year.
P.L. Rohrer and Bros.,
Inc., is highly regarded in
the area they cover and in
their fields which include
plant foods and chemicals,
as well as seeds.
The firm founded m 1916
when their father, Peter
Rohrer, bought a farm
supply business at the
present location, five miles
east of Lancaster. Shortly'
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the cost of electricity has doubled
while brooding fuel cost has tripled.
If this rate continues, the poultry
industry will be gone from
Pennsylvania by 1982.”
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thereafter, Peter’s older
brother, John, joined the
business, which became
incorporated in 1949.
The firm’s distribution is
concentrated in Lancaster
and' adjoining counties,
although orders are filled for
customers as far awdy as
New Jersey. One of the
firm’s six sales represen
tatives is located in
Maryland. In addition to the
forage seeds, soybeans, and
hybrid com, other types of
seeds handled by Rohrers
include cereals, such as
wheat, barley, and oats, and
also lawn grasses.
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