06—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 24,1982
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DeKalb, Pfizer
merge seed units
DEKALB, 11. AgEesearch,
Inc. and Pfizer Inc. announced
today they hatre formed a joint
venture, DeKalb-Pfizer Genetics,
for the conduct of their combines
seed businesses.
The joint-venture company,
owned 70% by DeKalb and 30% by
Pfizer, will be headquartered in
DeKalb, IL, and will offer an ex
tensive line of agricultural seeds,
including hybrids of corn, sorghum
and sunflower seeds -and
proprietary soybean and alfalfa
seeds.
DeKalb-Pfizer Genetics will
combine the seed research,
marketing and other operations of
the two companies. The joint
venture will also have access to all
seed applications from the
molecular-biological research
conducted at Pfizer’s Groton, Ct.,
Central Research facilities.
The new partnership takes effect
Mcßae receives appraiser post
CHESTER SPRINGS - Robert
F. Mcßae has been elected to
professional membership in the
American Society of Farm
Managers and Rural Appraisers,
an organization involved in the
management of rural lands and the
appraisal of rural properties.
Mcßae is vice president of
Sentry Appraisal Services, Inc., R 1
Chester Springs. He specializes in
rural and agricultural appraising
and consulting.
Mcßae is also a member of the
American Association of Certified
Appraisers. He resides with his
family near Marshalton, Chester
County.
Martin builds
economical
methane
BY DICK ANGLESTEIN
lONA A Lebanon County firm
has brought on-farm production of
electricity -with methane gas from
manure much closer within the
economical grasp of average-sized
farming operations.
The Leonard Martin Co.,
manufacturers of Maxi-Power
generating systems, has com
pleted a 15KW generator ter a
dairy operation in New York Shite,
which is approximately one-fifth
the normal cost of a unit of that
size.
-, We feel the generating portion
of a methane system is now more
economical and cost-effective tor
interested farmers,” Martin ex
plained.
‘This is a motor-type generator
and the 15KW unit, including the
control panel, costs $12,000, which
is about one-fifth of the price of a
standard generator and parallel
system.”
The 15KW system would be sized
tor approximately a 50-cow dairy
operation. It would also be suitable
tor a 200-sow hog operation or a
50,000-bird poultry operation.
The parallel system, which ties
the generator into the electrical
grid of a utility, is a lot less ex
pensive, according to Martin.
immediately, with former dealers
for both DeKalb and Pfizer
Genetics now able to offer the full
seed product lines to their
customers.
No other changes have been
made or are being contemplated
for the parent company, DeKalb
Agßesearch, Inc. '
Mike Holmes, general manager
of DeKalb’s poultry marketing and
operations, said, “Our fiscal year
closing on August 31, will be a very
successful one for DeKalb’s
Poultry Division. This continued
success reinforces DeKalb's
commitment to Us poultry
breeding business.”
DeKalb Agßesearch, Inc. has
been actively involved in egg-type
layer breeding since 1944 and is the
only primary breeder in the United
States that continues in the hands
of its originators.
Robert F. Mcßae
generator
The cost-reduction is due to the
design of the generator.
The unit is equipped with a
squirrel cage-type motor, which
acts as the generator.
"The motor teatures power
factor correction, which corrects
the efficiency of the generator so
that it blends better with the power
company,” Martin said.
Another feature of the unit is its
low KPM engine, a Waukesha,
which operates at about 1,000
RPM. This should provide about
three times the lifetime ot a
standard automotive gasoline
engine.
The unit also contains an elec
tronic governor tor very close
speed tolerance and a step-up gear
box to gel the generator up to
speed.
"This is the first generator ot
this type trom this area and the
tirsl we feel is cost-effective,”
Martin said.
"There have been motor-type
generators operating off wind
mills, but this is the first Tve seen
oft an engine.”
The unit is equipped to operate
off methane or LP gas and will
automatically switch between the
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Codatron installation on Chester Weaver printer, which provides daily feeding
farm, Newville, by Westfalia Systemat includes formation,
central control center with keyboard and
Westfalia reports area dairy
installations and open house
EDINBOKO increasing in
stallation of the latest develop
ments in dairy management
systems, including an open house
near Edinboro on Thursday, are
reported by area respresentatives
of Westfalia Systemat.
The varied Westfalia in
stallations reported by sales
engineers Bob Turner and Tom
Moore include new milking parlors
with automatic take-offs, com
puterized (Jodatron feeding
systems and the backf lush system.
The open house is planned from
10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday at the
Burton apd Richard Warnshuis
farm, located one mile north of-
Edinboro. A new milk house and
pump room, built by the owners,
includes a tngon parlor with 18
Westfalia automatic take-offs and
Clay air-operated stalls.
The milking equipment was
installed by Albert Brenner, ot
Spartansburg.
The Warnshuis operation in
cludes a herd ot 240, with 140
milking. Also available tor viewing
during the open house are a new
manure handling system with s
two million gallon storage capacity
and a heifer barn.
A Codatron feeding system has
been in operation since spring on
the Chester Weaver farm, near
Newville, Cumberland County.
The recent renovation also
features a new tngon parlor and
milk house.
The Weaver Codatron system
includes three feeding stalls in the
tree stall barn. The Weaver herd
numbers some 6'o milkers, half
registered and half grade.
The facilities were installed by
Cumberland Farm and Dairy
Supply, Inc., Chambersburg.
Other Codatron installations
recently were made on the farms
of George and Keith Bancroft, ot
Centerville, Crawford County; and
Dave Jarrett, of Jersey Shore. The
Jarrett installation includes four
feeding stalls, two tor high
production group and two tor the
low production group.
The first Westfaha backflush
system in the East was installed on
the Norman Laftey farm,
Cochranville, by Hobert L. Janney
Farm Construction and Equip
ment, Cochranville.
The Laffey operation totals some
600 head, with a milking string of
340.
The backtlush system was in
stalled to combat a mastitis
problem that was affecting a dozen
or so cows a day during the past
winter, according to Janney.
“The family reports there is no
current problem with mastitis,”
Janney said.
Cows are automatically fed precise ration based on stage ot~x
production in Westfalia feeding stalls. ”
"The somatic cell count has
dropped from 65,000 to about 15,000
- the lowest it has ever been."
Another backflush system has
been installed on the Tn-D Farms,
of Arnold Dailey, Inwood, W. Va.,
by the Equipment Division ot
Dairymen, Inc., Sykesville, Md.
The Codatron computerized
system features the automatic
feeding based on nutrition
requirements during the four basic
phases ot production during the
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lactation cycle. The system will
also be equipped to accomodate
other computerized programs,
such as breeding and milk
management.
The backflush system provides
tor fully automated sanitizing to
reduce bacterial concentrations in
the milking cluster and inflation.
The system with its eight-phase
cleansing cycle can be adapted to
both automatic take-offs and
regular pipeline milkers.