—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 9,1978
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Farmers trying on-the-farm feeding programs
DILLSBURG - The
country’s midwestern
horizon is punctuated by
enormous grain storage
tanks and towering elevator
legs.
There, the agn
businessman has found that
on-the-fann feed processing
is often the key to
profitability.
Recently, eastern farm
operations have begun to
take a closer look at the
“profitability ’ of on-locat : on
feed factories to gain the
vital edge they need to
counteract soaring costs.
Tam Agn Corporation,
based in Dillsburg, and
serving eastern Penn
sylvania has recently
completed the first phase of
on-the-farm feed processing
installations in two
agricultural areas.
The Glenn Gayman and
Sons business, known as
Hillside Poultry Farm, is
located just north of
Chambersburg. The
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Caymans; Glenn, Ronald,
and Clifford, produce and
process upwards of 49,000
eggs daily. Some of these
are sold at the family’s
country store. The
remainder are packaged for
commercial marketing.
When the Tam Agn
representative first spoke
with the Cayman’s, Ronald’s
greatest concern was that
perhaps egg production
would decline or fluctuate
due to the change in feed
processing.
Now, well into operation,
Ronald, his brother, and his
father are confident that
their system is producing
nutritious feed and that time
is being saved by farm feed
processing that would
otherwise by spent hauling
and buying.
In Lancaster County, just
minutes from Rt. 283, near
Elizabethtown, is the Paul
Wolgemuth farm. Set
amidst some of the nicest
com of the 1978 season is
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woigemuth’s new on-the
farm feed factory.
As the regular farm chores
are executed according to
the schedule begun by Paul
Sr. some 40 years ago, the
ultra-modem feed factoiy
happily hums along to the
tune of substantial savings,
an asset to the poultry farm
which consumes upwards of
24000 tons of feed a year.
Tam Agri’s representative
is now working with the
Woigemuth’s on several
revisions and im
provements. At the same
time, plans are being made
for a drying bin and an
elevator leg to allow the
Wolgemuths to buy and store
gram at the best market
prices.
Paul Jr. is a certified
public accountant. With a
trained eye on profitability,
he scrutinizes every
operation of the feed
processing factory.
Tam Agri’s product is a
nationally known feed
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p.m. on September 13. A
Do . „ , . , week later, on September 20,
t Sf 11 tne ? and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Paul
sy stem is Wolgemu th and his son Paul
th Th 3 r Agn Sta / f and C « C u' Jr - wIU °P en their operation
The Gayman farm wiU be to inte rested agri
hosting a Tam Agn Mix Mill businessmen.
RED LION - The regular
meeting of the Red Lion
Grange was held Sept. 2,
with Lee Burns, master in
charge. Plans were made
for a Soup Sale, and Yard
Sale, to be held at the
Grange Hall, Sat., Sep
tember 23, beginning at 10
a.m.
Special guest speaker
during the Lecturer’s
program was Ginger Wolf, of
Wolf’s Farms, Stewart
stown. She spoke on the
comparison of farming the
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Grange hall, beginning at 2
p.m. All subordinate
masters, lecturers, women
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During both events Tam
Agn sales people and Mix
Mill representatives will be
on hand to answer questions
about the new systems. The
public is cordially invited to
attend.
youth committee members
are asked to attend, as well
as all interested Grangers.
The meeting is set to plan the
program for the Pomona
1978-79 Grange year.
The apnual Seventh
Degree banquet for York-
Adams Pomona will be held
September 27 at 6:45 p.m. in
the Biglerville Fire ;
Arthur Ebbert,
will chair the meeting. If
any member plans to attend,
they are asked to contact
their master of their Grange.