A34—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, octob«r 25,1910
Lancaster beef producers tour
LANCASTER - Over 100
beef producers from Lan
caster and surrounding
counties hopped on tour
buses Tuesday to take a
closer look at their in
dustry’s end result and two
Berks County feedlots.
The first stop of the day
was the Moyer Packing
Company located in
Souderton. The beef
producers disembarked to
take a first hand look at a
modern packing operation,
starting with cattle waiting
in holding pens to boxes of
beef being wheeled into
waiting refrigerator trailers.
Robert Summy, R 1
Manheim, is the head buyer
for MOPAC. He told the
group some of the statistics
and history of the plant.
The butchering business
was a family tradition for
the Moyers, starting back m
1885 with Jacob Freed. The
daughter of Freed became
the wife of Abram F. Moyer
and in 1910 the two of them
and their four sons, Nelson,
Abram, Jacob and Curtis
took over Freed’s butchering
business.
From then on, Moyer’s
business grew larger and
expanded with many
changes over the years. The
latest change is the ex
pansion of the plant, with the
completion of the 4-month
old boning, bagging, boxing,
and shipping departments.
The beef producers
listened closely to Summy’s
explanation on the com
plexities of the plant’s
operations. They learned
that Moyer Packing Co. buys
cattle in 11 states.
Summy reported 85-90% of
the cattle bought in Lan
caster County are purchased
during the summer months;
other months of the year, the
cattle are bought out West
and shipped m. “
Summy also pointed out
the plant slaughters cows,
steers, heifers and bulls
depending on market con
ditions. “At tunes, cows
make up three-quarters of
the day’s kill, but normally
we kill about 600 steers and
300 cows m a day.”
The touring beef
House grader Dale Monnin explains to the group
how the meat is graded while the Federal grader
passes judgement on the line.
Indus
Glen Moyer, son of one of Moyer Packing Co’s four founding fathers, tells a
group of Lancaster County beef producers about the company's new boxing
plant.
producers were amazed at
the fact that in only 20
minutes from the time an
animal is stunned, it is
hanging in the chill cooler.
Nothing is wasted during
the meat processing, ex
plained Summy. Waste
products go to North Penn
Hide Company, an affiliate
of Moyer Packing Co., and
are rendered into blood
meal, bone meal, protein
meal, and tallow. Hides are
cured and tanned there and
are later sold and used for
leather products, such as
shoes, belts, handbags, and
other items.
Summy raised some
eyebrows with the amazing
statistic that the plant
processes 1% cattle per
minute or 90 cattle per hour
on the fabrication floor. On
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Robert Heffner’s feedlots, located near
Fleetwood, Berks County, showed the beef
producers a new face to a metal pole building.
Heffner tacked wooden siding on his barn to keep
the cold winter air out like snowfence traps snow.
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Doris Lorah tells the group of over 100
cattlemen about her father's feedlot. Dorry is the
daughter of Henry Eyrich, R 1 Oley. Their operation
moves about 1600 head through each year.
Holding the loudspeaKer is Moyer's Bob Summy.
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Alexandria. PA
Clapper Farm Equipment
Star Route
814-669-4465
iville, PA
B H M Farm Equipment, Inc
RD 1
717-867-2211
Bernville. PA *
Stanley A Klopp, Inc
Bernville, PA
215-488-1510
lerville. PA
Nelson Farm Supply, Inc
Biglerville, PA
717-677-8144
Carlisle, PA
Paul Shovers, Inc
35 East Willow Street
717-243-2686
Catawissa. PA
Abraczmskas Farm
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RD 1
717-356-2323
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Clugston Implement, Inc
RD 1
717-263-4103
Davidsburg, PA
George N Gross, Inc
R D 2, Dover, PA
717-292-1673
Elizabethtown. PA
MessicK Farm
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Rt 283 - Rheem’s Exit
717-367-1319
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Ymglmg Implements
RD 9
717-359-4848
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Meyers Implement’s Inc
400 N Antrim Way
PO Box 97
717-597-2176
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Sweigard Bros
R D 3. Box 13
717-896-3414
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Dependable Motor Co
East Main Street
215-273-3131
215-273-3737
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Norman D Clark& Son, Inc
Honey Grove, PA
717-734-3682
Hughesville, PA
Farnsworth Farm
Supplies, Inc
103 Cemetery Street
717-584-2106
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L H Brubaker, Inc
350 Strasburg Pike
717-397-5179
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Evergreen Tractor Co , Inc
30 Evergreen I
717-272-4641
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Paul Shovers, Inc
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291 W Moorestown Rd
215-759-0240
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110 South Railroad
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Wentz Farm Supplies, Inc
Rt 29
215-679-7164
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W College Ave
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N Seneca St
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Box 149
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RD 3
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M S Yearsley&Son
114-116 East Market Street
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SG Lewis & Son, Inc
R D 2, Box 66
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Walter G Coale, Inc
2849-53 Churchville Rd
301-734-7722
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Ag-lnd Equipment Co,
R D 2, Route 273 East
301-398-6132
301-658-5568
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Leslie G Fogg, Inc
Canton &
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Landing Rds
R D 3
609 451-2727
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814 793-3791
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