B2—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, July 11,1981
Farm Busines s
News
Russel C. Albright, left, Farm Credit loan officer in West
Chester, receives a service award from J. Howard Settle,
executive vice president with Baltimore Banks.
Loan officer gets award
WEST CHESTER - Russel C.
Albright, executive loan officer
with the Southeast Farm Credit
Service in the West Chester
Branch Office, has been awarded
the Baltimore District’s
Distinguished Service Award.
The district includes the states of
Pennsylvania, Delaware,
Maryland, Virginia and West
Virginia. The Award was
presented by J. Howard Settle,
executive vice president with the
Baltimore Banks at a luncheon
Nolt bull enters sampling program
PLAIN CITY, OH. - Tri-Town
Porter House, a young bull bred by
J.Z. Nolt, of Leola, "has been
acquired by Select Sires, Inc.,
headquartered at Plain City, Ohio.
Based on his outstanding
pedigree, this bull calf has been
selected as one of only 110 Holstein
bulls from throughout the United
States to enter Select Sires’
Program for Genetic Ad
MGS designs custom turkey hauler
DENVER, Pa. - MGS Trailers,
a division of MGS Incorporated,
R 3, Denver, has constructed a
custom-made trailer, a 36-foot
gooseneck style turkey hauler, for
Lowell R. Koch, of Koch’s Turkey'
Farms and Retail Store, Rl,
Tamaqua.
The trailer consists of twelve 4-.
foot x 6-foot cages with rear and
side doors on each cage. It is two
cages wide and six cages long.
When it is time to load the
turkeys, the rear is lifted by
hydraulic jacks; the dual wheel
axle assembly moves to the front
of the trailer; and the rear end is
This 36-foot custom turkey hauler, designed
and constructed by MGS Trailers, R 3, Denver,
is intended to provide easier and more ef
ficient transport of the birds. Shown with the
trailer, from the left, are Raymond Martin,
held at the West Chester Golf and
Country Club.
Albright, who joined the Bucks
County office of Farm Credit in
February, 1970, earned a degree
in animal husbandry in 1967
from the Delaware Valley College
of Science and Agriculture. He
transferred to West Chester in the
spring of 1978 and resides in
Glenmoore. Albright services
accounts in northern Chester
County.
vancement (PGA) sire sampling
system in 1981.
, .... „ „ today over +2OOO Predicted Dif-
The dam of this young bull is C feren ce for Milk at 99%
VaUey &-and Starhte Bea, a Very Repeatability. He has been
Good (88) daughter of Roybrook progeny tested for the recessive
Starhte with two records over 1000- gene {or mu i e foot. Based on the
of fat. Her top record, made at five results of the test, he has a 99.2%
yearn three monte of age is 28,576 probability of being free of this
of milk and 1102 of fat. characteristic.
lowered to the ground. The tailgate
is then lowered and used as a ramp
for the turkeys to walk up into the
cages. As each cage is filled, the
door is closed and the next one is
used.
When all of the cages are full, the
tailgate is raised and latched; the
rear is jacked up; and the wheel
axle assembly returns to the rear.
The trailer is now ready to be
driven away. Upon reaching the
slaughter house, the turkeys are
removed through the side doors.
Using a trailer like this instead
of cramming the birds into regular
cages increases the overall yield of
grade A turkeys by 30 percent.
designer of the trailer; Lowell Koch, of Koch’s
Turkey Farms, Rl, Tamaqua; Richard Miller,
commercial and industrial sales manager for
MGS; and Roger Ream, trailer production
manager at MGS.
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, IL. -
A new grain unloader specifically
designed to handle gram in the 24
to 28 per cent moisture ranges has
been introduced by A.O. Smith
Harvestore Products, Inc.
The new unloader features a
•‘live” sweep arm which operates
constantly throughout the process
ot unloading gram from oxygen
limiting structures. Company
officials believe that the unit will
be especially popular in the nor
theast, where grain is usually
harvested above 25 percent
moisture.
The product, designated the
model PSA 5420 unloader joins a
hne-up of equipment including the
model 31 sweep.arm unloader,
recommended for gram in 25
percent and lower moisture
ranges, and the Spartan unloader,
designed for gram in the 28 to 34
percent moisture range.
The mode] 5420 unloader
features a tapered sweep auger
with flight pitch and spacing
modified at the outer end for
positive removal of grain about the
ucture’s periphery. This design
IH chief addresses energy needs
ORLANDO, Fla. - “The green
plant is one of the important an
swers in the search for viable
sources to solve worldwide energy
needs,” according to Robert J.
Potter, International Harvester
senior vice president and chief
technical officer.
In a keynote address to the
American Society of Agricultural
Engineers’ 1981 Summer Con
ference here. Potter said, “Con-
This young bull is sired by
Wayne-Spring Fond Apollo (MF),
one of the elite bulls of the breed
This is due to the fact that turkeys
are very nervous by nature and
human handling can cause weight
loss along with severe bruising as a
result of them trying to keep out of
human reach. In addition to better
quality birds, the overall cost of
handling equipment becomes
substantially less for the farmer.
MGS Trailers developed this
model with the help of Koch’s
knowledge of the turkey business.
In his operation he will be using
several other units like this. Other
poultry handlers may obtain more'
information at MGS Trailers, R 3,
Denver, Pa. (215-267-7528).
Harvestore introduces
grain unloader
wet
New grain unloader, introduced by A.O. Smith Harvestore
Products, is designed for grain in the 24 to 28 per cent
moisture range and features a powered sweep auger arm.
helps to assure uniform draw down
of ensiled gram throughout the
auger’s length. The unloader is
available for 20-ft. diameter
Harvestore structures.
The unloader’s 5 HP motor has a
sidering that well over 300 trillion
kilowatt hours of energy annually
is captured by land vegetation, the
plant represents a major
development opportunity har
nessing that energy in forms to
benefit the world’s population.”
One of those opportunities,.says
Potter and other experts in the
agricultural industry, is produc
tion of energy from biomass, or the
waste produced as a result of
agricultural production
“According to the U.S. Office of
Technology Assessment, in the
United States alone, as much as 12
to 17 quadrillion BTUs could be
produced from biomass sources by
the year 2000,” Potter noted. This
is roughly equivalent to the energy
contained in the oil now imported
by the U.S., which equals about 20
percent of the nation’s total energy
consumption.
“This is a remarkable op
portunity, when you consider that
if 10 percent of the annually
produced one hundred billion tons
of cellulose were converted to
mechanical or electrical power, an
average of 500 watts per year
would be available to each human
being on earth,” Potter said. “The
use of biomass is the key to im
proving our agricultural energy
balance.”
The IH executive noted that
energy self-sufficiency can be
achieved by taking advantage ef
and applying new and existing
technologies to agricultural
practies. However, he cautioned it
be done in such a manner
that American farmers easily can
adapt the new technology to
current farming methods.
Looking ahead at anticipated
changes in agricultural equip
ment, Potter said, “We will see the
day when the status of working
farm machinery continuously will
LANDISVILLE - R.J. Reynolds
Tobacco Company has presented
the Pennsylvania State University
with a grant of $8,700 for tobacco
- production research.
The money will be used to
develop improved Pennsylvania
tobacco varieties and to study the
effects of animal manure as a
fertilizer material on the quality of
tobacco.
A.R. Mitchem, Agricultural
Research Coordinator Tor
Reynolds Tobacco, presented the
check to John Yocum, superin
tendent of the Southeastern Field
Penn State gets tobacco grant
starting torque of 3 to 400 percent
for moving the most balky gram.
The sweep auger is advanced by
a reciprocating spring loaded
racket system driven by the
unloader motor.
be monitored by on-board com
puter systems. Indeed, high-value
produce will be grown in factory
farms, in an environment tuned for
super-productivity. Technology
will allow us to anticipate
procedures necessary to avoid
failures in agricultural produc
tion.”
Potter cited the current
American development efforts
underway to advance agricultural
technology.
“The opportunities and
challenges before the agricultural
community are rapidly expanding.
New developments in irrigation
practices, photosynthesis
enhancement, plant genetics,
electronic farm equipment control
and alternate energy sources are
the birth of a new era of innovation
exceeding the one started by Cyrus
Hall McCormick,” he said.
Potter challenged the engineers
and scientists of the ASAE and
other professional societies to take
the results, of their research and
development efforts and apply
them to immediate and sure
solutions in the quest for “More
Production - Less Consumption,”
the theme of the 1981 ASAE
meeting.
“Today’s equipment and
agricultural practices have made
the American farmer the un
disputed leader in world
agricultural production,” Potter
concluded. “The tremendous in
crease in productivity is the result
of the wise application of basic,
research, smart engineering and
new technologies. We must con
tinue this process to improve and
accelerate the ability of
agriculture to feed the world and
help man prosper on this planet.
We must harvest a new era in
agriculture.”
Research Laboratory at Lan
disville.
Since 1979, R.J. Reynolds
Tobacco grants to Penn State have
totaled $22,350. From 1962 to 1981,
tobacco production research
grants to universities by Reynolds
Tobacco totaled $2,467,474.
X >'
'> * 1