D6~Uncast«r Farming, Saturday, January IS, 1983
Turner, Konhaus
get Awards
FARM SHOW - Two Penn
sylvania firms received the 1963
Pennsylvania Agribusiness
Achievement Award during
ceremonies Monday evening at the
Pennsylvania Farm Show. The
awards were presented to Turner
Dairy Farms of Pittsburgh and
Konhaus Farms of Mechanicsburg
by State Agriculture Secretary
Penrose Hallo well.
In presenting the awards.
Hallowed said, “The Judges had a
tough decision. Ail the nominiees
were deserving of this annual
award.”
Four other firms were
nominated for the award; Barsotti
Brother’s Baking Company of
Pittsburgh, Lehigh Valley IGA
Group of Allentown, O. Leto
Mushrooms of Kennett Square,
and the Pennsylvania Cooperative
Potato Growers, Inc., all of whom
have shown outstanding support of
Pennsylvania agriculture.
“Both Turner Dairy and
Konhaus Farms have been out*
Crowds , kids & quiet at commercial exhibits
standing leaders in the promotion
of Pennsylvania foods,” said
Hallowed. "Family owned and
operated Turner Dairy was the
second dairy producer and
processor to adopt the ‘We’re
Growing Better’ logo. They took
the initiative to design two ride
carton panels for their milk one
featuring the logo and the other
promoting Pennsylvania milk as
the ‘Official State Beverage’.”
Turner distributes dairy products
throughout southwestern Penn
sylvania.
“The co-winner, Konhaus Farms
Is a poultry, vegetable and retail
operation. They are family owned
and operated, with four stores in
the Mechanicsburg and Lemoyne
areas. Konhaus has been using the
logo on their grocery bags, egg
cartons, ice cream containers, and
newspapers and designs since
March 1980. They have been an
excellent supporter of Penn-
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Hesston adds tillage tools
HESSTON, Kaa.‘ - Si* new
smaller-sized Tandem Disc
Harrows and three new sizes of its
Tri-Till Field Finisher have been
added to Hesston’s line of tillage
equipment for 1963.
“By expanding our line with
many of the smaller sizes of tillage
equipment, we will be competing
In market areas we haven’t been in
previously,” said Dexter Schaible,
product manager.
“Plus, these new tillage products
will better complement our
complete line of tractors," he said.
The 2140 Tri-Till Field Finisher
will be available in three new
sizes: 12 feet, nine inches; 15 feet,
nine inches; and 24 feet, nine in
ches. Already available sizes are
18 feet, nine inches; and 21 feet,
nine inches.
The Tri-Till Field Finisher is a
minimum tillage tool designed to
greatly reduce the number of trips
required to prepare a seedbed and
incorporate herbicide or fertiliser.
It’s a combination disc harrow,
field cultivator and finishing
barrow.
IMPCO delivers tax
SOUTHAMPTON, - Members
of Inter-State Milk Producers’
Cooperative are getting the year
off to a good start by receiving an
investment tax credit of $117,270.
The cooperative had an unused
protion of investment tax credit as
of July 31, 1962, according to
President Robert B. McSparran.
After using the investment tax
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This is the Hesston 2140 Tri-Till Field Finisher now
available in three new sizes.
Also available are new optional
rolling baskets, installed in place
of the barrow, and a chemical tank
camierUt
Hesston’s new Model 2420
Tandem Disc Harrows are
available in sir sizes from 10 feet,
six inches to 10 feet for tractors
>frocn SO to 15 horsepower. The
credit on its 1962 taxes Inter-State
still had tax credit remaining.
According to the Internal
Revenue Code, unused cooperative
investment tax credits- must be
allocated to members ! n the
current year. In this case, the
allocation is on each member’s
share of Interstate’s volume of
milk marketed from August 1,1861
to July 31.1««Z.
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Sperry New Holland's Inno-Vator. top left, who has traveled
from children's hospitals to TV soap operas, always draws a
crowd. Here, he (she or it) helps sales staff explain forage
harvester's metal detector. Above, three-year*old Todd
Hinkle, son of John & Oottie Hinkle, Lancaster, revs up an IH
garden tractor. And bottom left, Gary Shotzberger, Elm, and
Ken Miller literally “reflect’’ on Farm Show happenings.
Leaning against mirror in Deere exhibit is Lori Brenneman, of
Elizabethtown.
Hesston Model 2440 Tandem Disc
is already available in widths from
17 feet five inches to 25 feet. All are
designed for high performance
discing, ease of handling and
dependability. Optional flex-tine
finishing barrow attachment is
available to put a final touch on the
bribed.
credit
Inter-State Treasurer and
Business Manager Robert M.
Dever said, “the Investment tax
credit is an exact credit to the
members’ taxes. It can be sub
tracted directly from the taxes
that each member owes the In
ternal Revenue Service.”
The average Interstate member
will receive an investment tax
credit **38.00.
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