C2—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 12,1981
£*'f£- ' f at Bordentown,N.J. by Agway Inc.
%T ’./s'* The '5850,000. facility, located
; C*vV?% ■* ?*”*?'*.*'"■ * adjacent to Agway’s Bordentown
lit ▼» W - feed plant on Route 130, includes
‘ the latest seed conditioning and
handling equipment and a 10,000
square foot warehouse. The con
ditioning equipment, installed by
. Ag Machinery Safety, Inc. of
Layfayette, Indiana, is designed
I for cleaning and conditioning
100.000 bushels of certified
soybeans and approximately
100.000 bushels of wheat and barley
seed annually.
The new facility, built by Agway
Buildings Department, will enable*
Agway’s seed division to expand
its soybean and cereal grain
certified seed program to farmers
m New Jersey, Delaware,
Maryland, and parts of
southeastern Pennsylvania. The
facility will serve approximately
50 Agway stores and represen
tatives with complete seed needs,
including distribution of turf
grasses, alfalfa, clover, and forage
seeds and hybrid seed corn.
The certified seed will be
produced under contract by far
mers in New Jersey, Delaware,
dnd Maryland. Its central location
provides an adequate supply of
high quality, locally adapted seed
varieties.
Nine full-tune and part-time
employees will operate the facility.
Seed valued at approximately $1.3
million will be conditioned at
Bordentown.
Research plots to evaluate new
soybean varieties suited to the
area are under development by
" Agway on cooperating farms.
Soybeans, traditionally grown in
l.
Angstadt gets
DALLAS, TX - William E.
Angstadt Jl, Vice President ot
Reading Bone Fertilizer Company,
has been elected to the Board ot
Directors of the National Fertilizer
Solutions Association (NFSAJ
during its 27th Annual Convention
neld in Dallas.
Angstadt, a resident ot
Shillmgton, was elevated to the
Board because ot his involvement
with the fluid fertilizer industry
and dedication to the objectives
and policies ot the NFSA.
The National Fertilizer Solutions
Association is an organziation
composed ot members dedicated
to the advancement ot the use ot
fluid fertilizer. The NFSA
represents over 1,7U0 companies in
the United States and lb other
countries. Fluid fertilizers now
account tor approximately 2b
percent ot the total fertilizer
market.
Angstadt will serve a three-year
Cleaning up confusion
over chemicals
DOVER, Del. - Farm
publications are full of ad
vertisements for weed control
materials that sound like the an
swer to every farmer’s prayers.
But when it comes to making
selections, farmers need more to
go on than the ads, says Delaware
extension crops specialist Frank
Webb. They need solid in
formation.
Weed control is an area of crop
production that is advancing
rapidly, says Webb. Scientists are
constantly developing new
chemicals and new methods of
application. There are now
chemicals that can be applied
before the crop is planted; others
that can be applied after planting
but before the crop is up; and some
that can be applied right over the
growing plants, killing the weeds
but sparing the crops.
There are weed control
chemicals for com, for soybeans,
and for all the other agronomic
crops. With' such a variety pf
products on the market, it’s no
wonder farmers are confused
about which one to buy for which
purpose, Webb said. And the
confusion is increasing now as the
ads start appearing for the new
products for 1982, he added.
Some of the new products
represent real breakthroughs in
weed control, says Webb. Others
are jus| old, familiar chemicals
under new trade names, or pre
mized combinations of two well
known products. It pays to know
which are which.
control products before
buying, advises Frank Webb, Delaware Extension crops
specialist.
fertilizer post
W.E. Angstadt II
term and represent the NFSA as a
Director at Large. Prior to his
elevation to the Board, he worked
on the Association’s 1981 Round-Up
Committee and the Convention
Committee in lit Bo.
The one really new product is
called Poast. Manufactured by
BASF Company, this product can
be used over top of soybeans for
excellent control of grasses. Over
top spraying is a relatively new
practice made possible. by recent
advances in chemicstry, notes
Webb.
Another new name in the
marketplace l hs Bronco,
manufactured by Monsanto
Company. This is actually a
mixture of two existing materials,
Roundup plus Lasso. This com
bination will be cleared for use on
com and soybeans in no-tillage
production. While such a product
has a place in no-till production,
says Webb, it’s important that
growers realize what they are
buying.
Monsanto is also marketing a
pre-mixed combination of Lasso
plusatrazine.
Last year, Ciba-Geigy released a
similar product under the trade
name Bicep. Actually a com
bination of atrazme and Dual, this
material is already widely ac
cepted by growers.
Another new name in the
marketplace is Gramoxone. This is
neither a new product nor even a
combination of products, but
simply ICI America’s new trade
name for paraquat.
When you’re planning your weed
control strategy, it’s important to
know whether a new product is
really new, something familiar, or
a combination ' of familiar
Adams Co-op hikes power rates
GETTYSBURG - Adams
_ Electric Cooperative rates will
increase on Dec. 15. The an-
nouncement was made by Board
President V. Kyle Trout, who said
that 2.8 mills (|.0028> will be added
to the charges for each kilowatt
hour.
For a member using 1,000 KWHs
, per month, the net effect is a $2.80,
or 4.8 percent, increase in monthly
. charges. The percentage is higher
for users of more than 1,000 and
smaller for those who use less.
This rate' change will permit the
cooperative to achieve a 30 percent
owner equity by the end of 1982.
‘‘We set the 30 percent goal in
1976,” Trout reported. "At that
time, Adams Electric’s equity was
14.5 percent and we were strongly
urged to improve it.” The pressure
came from Washington, the source
of the co-op’s loan funds.
"We wanted to reach the goal by
the end of 1983,” Trout continued.
"We are now at 26.5 percent and,
with this rate increase, will be at 30
percent within a year. There are
sound reasons for such a move.”
products. If it’s a pre-mix com
bination, it’s also important to
know the proportions of the
chemicals in the mix. Only with
this information can you use the
■product effectively.
When you hear of a chemical
that you are unsure about, call
your county extension office. The '
county agent can tell you what the
chemical is, how to use it, and
-’whether dr not it’is more effective
than the product you have been
using.
Carnation honors Weir
HUGHSON, CA. - Joel K. Weir
has been recognized by Carnation
Genetics lor outstanding service in
his’ capacity as District Sale
Manager. He has been named
"District Sales Manager U 1 the
Month.”
A Penn State graduate in animal
industry, Weir supervises direct
' herd sales and distributors in
Agway opens
Phil Aiampi, New Jersey’s secretary of agriculture, and
Fred Hough, Agway director from Augusta, N.J., inspect
soybean certified seed conditioned at Agway's new seed
conditioning facility at Bordentown, N. J. ‘
the Midwest, have become an
important crop in the eastern
United States. With new varieties,
the crop will become increasingly
important in New Jersey, eastern
Pennsylvania, and the Delmarva
Adams Electric’s board and
management have been
monitoring the wholesale price of
power. They have been told to
expect substantial, new.increases
in each of the next two years. By
reaching its equity goal sooner, the
co-op pvpwts tn oneh!on the effects
ST. LOUIS, MO. - L.D. Muller
and Thomas Sweeney, of Penn
State, were among university
instructors, researchers and ex
tension specialist who recently
exchanged • thoughts on dairy
research and the dairy industry at
a special two-day meeting.
“The conference was an ideal
method of broadening the give
and-take between the university
community «nd industry research
Used equipment prices up
MINNETONKA, MN. - Prices
of used tractors and farm equip
ment are holding steady or rising
despite weak crop and livestock
markets and slack sales of new
machines.
At least that’s the indication
from Marshall’s Farm Equipment
Guide, a twice-yearly publication
that reports on used equipment
prices and related data. The
January 1982 issue of the Guide has
just been published. ,' •
It shows that prices of popular,
late-model tractors and combines
are uniformly- as high or- higher
than six months and a year ago.
For the last half of 1981, prices
Southeast Pennsylvania dJUI
Eastern Maryland.
He tirst joined Carnation
Company in 1976 as a district sales
manager in the Milling Division.-
His appointment m the same
capacity with the Genetics
Division was made in 1979.
Weir makes his home in Mount
Joy.
Purina holds dairy meeting
Iflnt
peninsula. , . ■
Many agricultural leaders and
fanners were on hand for the
December l open house, which
included exhibits, displays, and
educational activities.
of anticipated power costs.
Adams Electric serves 16,700
members, ot ( which-6,200 are in
Adams County, 3,350 are in
Cumberland County, 1,350 are in
Franklin County, and 5,800 are in
York County.
efforts,” noted Daryle Greene,
director of Research' and
Development, Ralston Purina
Company, sponsors of the meetmg.
The conference Included group
discussidns and - presentations
intended to assist all ot the
researchers in gaming a working
knowledge of the various direc
tions being taken in the field ot
dairy cow nutrition, Greene added.
were as much as 11% higher for
some machines than in the first
half, and as much as 14% higher
than a year earlier. The increase
appears to be general, across most
makes and models of units less
than 10 years old. However, many
machines built before 1970 are
steadily dropping in market value.
It’s a reflection' ot supply
demand conditions in the used
market, according to Guide
publisher Morris Dorosh. The
"supply of late-model,f popular
make tractors' and combines is
down largely because tewer have
been coming into dealers’ lots as
trade-ins on new sales. At the same
time demand tor such models
continues strong trom farmers
who might buy- brand-new
equipment in more normal times.
By contrast, rebates ami
financing incentives trom
manufacturers have probably
reduced actual, net prices ot new
machinery in many cases.