C34—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 9,1910
Grain storage
alternatives
to be presented
TERRE HILL - The
Garden Spot Young Fanners
will sponsor a meeting on
grain storage alternatives,
on Tuesday, February 12,
1980, at 7:30 P.M., at the
Union Grove School.
The objective of this
meeting will be examine
various grain storage
alternatives such as gram
bins, grain dryers, low
energy drying, and high
moisture corn.
Speakers for the evening
will include Milford Mast on
Chill-curing (drying com
with low-energy re
quirements using fans and
infa-red lights), a
Harvestore representative
to discuss high-moisture
com storage, and several
farmers who dry and store
their own gram.
With more growers
harvesting or combining
grain early to avoid large
Lime, fertilizer officers elected
Officers of the Pennsylvania Plant Food and Protectant Educational Society,
elected at the organization’s recent annual meeting on Penn State’s main
campus, are from left: Lynn Hoffman, superintendent of the Penn State
Agronomy Research Farm, president; John G. Dantinne, of the Lancaster Bone
Fertilizer, Inc., Quarryville, immediate past president; and Robert J. Thomas,
manager of the Penn State Soil And Forage Testing Laboratory, secretary
treasurer. The vice president, not shown, is Dean Nelson, of the Stauffer
Chemical Co., Fayetteville.
amounts of field loss, the
storage of this gram requires
attention. With energy costs
rising and fluctuating grain
markets, profit or loss can
often be determined by dry
ing, handling, and storage
decisions. This meeting will
examine some of the alter
natives to consider to make
these decisions.
The Union Grove School is
located on route 625, two
miles north of Route 23. All
area fanners are welcome.
For additional information
call Don Robinson, Adult
Farmer Instructor,
215/44&-5041.
About 2 percent of all
farms account for 40 per
cent of all farm production
and 18 percent of total net
farm income, says the U.S.
Department of Agriculture.
Farm Business
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CAMP HILL Several
agribusiness firms were
represented at a defensive
driver training program
held last week in Camp Hill.
The course, sponsored by
PennAg Industries
Association, has been shown
to reduce both the seventy
and the number of accidents
for drivers taking it.
PennAg members
represented at the seminar,
and the names of their
drivers attending, are listed
below;
Wilkes-Barre: Pa. Milliers
Mutural Insurance Co., - Bob
Hartman, Bill Spencer;
Martinsburg: Martinsburg
Milling Co., - Don Saber,
Gary Wyles, Russell
Eshelman, Allen Phillips;
York: Spangler & Sprenkle,
Inc., - Michael Lmebaugh,
Gregory Loyd; Rheems:
Wenger’s Feed Mill, Inc., -
Gary Collins, Tim Grube;
Pottstown: Pottstown Roller
Mills, Inc.,- Douglas E.
Saylor; Mt. Joy: Spangler’s
News
Flour Mills, Inc., - Edward
Good, Robert Light; York:
Beacon Milling Co., Inc. -
John Herman, Wilford
Myers, Scott Sharp; Mt.
Joy: Wolgemuth Bros. Inc., -
Scott Burger, Eugene R.
Hess, Sr., Harvey K.
Showmaker, Gerald T.
Stephens, Lester G. Ruhl,
James A. Longenecker,
James Thompson, William
H. May, Leroy K. Shonk,
Eric D. Yordy, Scott L.
Martin, Reuben L. Auker,
John R. Greenly, Ellis
Esbenshade, Kenneth L.
Buffenmyer, John Keener,
Craig Marshall; Glenville:
Glenville Farm Center -
Larry D. Baer, Lewistown:
S.H. Goss, Inc., - Gary
Hagemeyer; Kreamer:
Kreamer Feed Store - Dale
Camp, John Kessler,
Charles Long, Kevin Kantz,
Robert Miller; Lancaster:
R/K Agri Service, Inc., -
Dennis Brubaker; Lebanon:
Mark C. Hershey Farms, -
Dale Ebersole;
Shiremanstown: Beachley-
Hardy Seed Co., - Alvin L.
Wiest, Gary M.
Stewartstown: Stewart
stown Milling Co., - Stanley
Little, Lynn Yeager, Ken
neth Rmeholt; Gap: Walker
Co., - Daniel L. Henry,
Thomas J. Nixon, John A.
Walton; Paradise: John J.
A new concept in sow management is the
elevated farrowing crate, with sows wearing
collars.
Hess 11, Inc., - Dan Lehman,
Sam Wanner; Bangor: Penn
Bangor, Inc., - William
Albert, Graig Kneebone;
Belleville: Union Mill Soil
Service, Inc., - James
Stauffer, Donald Peachey,
Ed Glick, Ben Zook.