D6—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 17,1983
Sire Power fills
TUNKHANNOCK - R. Rinell
Vincent was recently named to the
position of Director of Marketing
for Sire Power, Inc., according to
DuWayne A. Kutz, General
Manager.
As Director of Marketing,
Vincent will coordinate and
organize Sire Power’s marketing
objectives of bringing the
organization’s genetics to farmers
throughout the United States and
around the world. He will assist, in
cooperation with Sire Power’s
Board of Directors and
management, Sire Power’s growth
objectives and marketing ap
proach in the A.I. industry. His
responsibilities are to direct
member sales, national, and in
ternational sales. Other duties
include coordinating promotional
and advertising programs
throughout Sire Power’s
marketplace.
Vincent brings to this position a
strong background in A.I. with
experience, and specialization in
sales management. He was
previously the National Sales
Manager at Sire Power, Inc. for
eighteen months. Prior to this,
Vincent was employed by
American Breeders Service. Inc.
of DeForest, Wisconsin. In his 9%
years at ABS, he progressed from
District Sales Coordinator in
Southeastern Wisconsin to District
Sales Manager in Northwestern
Wisconsin.
While at ABS he served on the
President’s Round Table and was
MC’s feature
hydraulic drive
COLDWATER, Oh. - New Idea
Farm Equipment of Coldwater,
Ohio, has announced the
availability of two new center pivot
hydraulically driven Mower
Conditioners. Available in 12 and
14-foot sizes, these new models
offer many advantages.
Conditioning rolls are 106 inches
wide. This enables the machine to
produce either a windrow or a
wide, fast-drying swath to help
speed curing and avoid spoilage in
humid climates.
Power-through slug removal is a
new feature. When raised to their
upper-most position, the con-
New Idea mower conditioners are offered in 12 and 14-foot
sizes.
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marketing post
R. Rinell Vincent
recognized for having the fourth
best sales district in the nation for
ABS business in 1976. He was also
recognized for having the eighth
best sales district at ABS in 1980.
From 1972 to 1974, Vincent
served as a high volume
Professional Technician for ABS,
and from 1970 to 1972 he was a
Technician for Tri-State Breeders.
He graduated from DeForest
High School and served in the
armed forces. He is a veteran with
an honorable discharge from the
U.S. Army with service from 1967
to 1969.
A native of DeForest, Wise.,
Vincent and his family reside in
the Tunkhannock area. Vincent
and his wife, Mary Edna, have five
children; Heather, 10; Mariruth,
9; Gretchen, 6; Preston, 4; and
Rinell, 2.
ditioning rolls separate to allow the
operator to “power through”
bunches or slugs (from the tractor
seat) that would plug many other
mower conditioners.
The sickle and reel are
hydraulically driven so there is no
power take-off shaft. The location
of the center mounted tongue
enables both the 12 and 14-foot
models to be operated on either
side of the tractor. This is an
especially valuable feature when
cutting on contoured ground or
odd-shaped fields and makes
maneuvering through narrow
gateways easy.
Taking part in Organic Plant Food Company's “Country Fair and Customer Ap
preciation Day” were, left to right, Organic's Sales Manager, Kent Fritz; guest speakers,
H. Louis Moore, and John Yocum, and Organic Plant Food’s President, Bill Brubaker.
Organic Plant Food Co.
Hosts Appreciation Day
LANCASTER Lancaster’s
Holiday Inn East was the site of the
Dec. 13th “Country Fair and
Customer Appreciation Day,”
sponsored by Organic Plant Food
Company, of 2313 Norman Rd.,
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Long term storage in high rainfall areas requires some sort
of protection for hay bales -- round or square.
Keep those bales under roof
NEW HOLLAND - Hay doesn’t
need protection in below-freezing
temperatures. And round bales
store well in low-rainfall areas in
either warm or cold seasons. But
leaving bales of high-quality
alfalfa out in mild, rainy winters
may lead to quality loss you can
avoid, says Dick Salisbury, of
Sperry New Holland.
If the bales are subject to
frequent, heavy downpours, they
will lose quality because thicker
stem legumes don’t shed water as
effectively as grass hay. Grasses
give a bale a thatch-roof effect that
protects the feed quality. Keeping
the hay dry is the key.
Hay quality loss isn’t always
easy to see. That’s because
microscopic bacteria and fungi use
up food nutrients inside the bale
unless the hay is dry. Moisture
from the outside is as damaging as
plant moisture inside the stems
when hay is baled too wet.
Salisbury says you can expect
some quality loss, especially in
legumes, unless the hay is baled
dry and kept dry.
Moisture can enter the hay from
above or below. That’s the reason
large round bales should be stored
on a well-drained, dry area. And if
you live in a humid area where
average annual rainfall ap
Farmers began arriving shortly
after 9 a.m. to sign in and visit with
representatives from over 20 of
Organic Plant Food’s suppliers.
After opening remarks by
Organic Plant Food’s Sales
manager, Kent Fritz, and
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proaches 40 inches, it’s probably a
mistake to let your bales outside
uncovered for extended periods.
Salisbury, who is product
manager for round balers at New
Holland, emphasizes short-period
outdoor storage is OK, especially
with grass hays if not much rain is
expected. Deep-frozen hay keeps
well, too.
But in the Middle Atlantic States,
the south, and the southeast,
winter temperatures are usually
above freezing. There’s a lot of
ram, too-moisture that would be
snow if it fell in Montana. Most of
this moisture drains off round
bales harmlessly. But just enough
humidity into the bale to result in
too much feed quality loss for hay
you have to hold over winter. A
roof to keep the hay dry prevents
the loss. The longer you store, the
more important the roof, says
Salisbury. A roof is probably a
good idea even in moderate
rainfall areas if you plan to store
alfalfa or other high quality hay a
year or more.
It depends on the value of the
product in the first place. The
economics of building a roof to
protect poor quality hay or crop
residues may not pencil out,
Salisbury warns. But you can
afford to keep your alfalfa dry.
pi esii. Bill Brubaker, the
meeting was turned over to John
Yokum, Penn State’s research
director, who spoke on “Con
trolling Weeds in Lancaster
County Rotational Fanning.”
Yokum expressed concern over
some of the weed problems
building statewide, as well as here
in Lancaster County, due largely to
the application of the same crops
and herbicides year after year. He
stressed that many weed problems
could be averted simply by
abandoning this monoculture type
of farming in favor of crop and
herbicide rotation.
Yokum reviewed the various
types of herbicides, and noted that
a comprehensive weed control
plan takes into account not only the
types of weeds to be eliminated,
but also soil type, weather con
ditions, and the time of year.
The final speaker for the mor
ning was ag economist, H. Louis
Moore, a specialist in livestock,
grain, and meat marketing.
'Moore began by noting that even
though economic recovery has
been strong in some areas such as
banking, retailing, and the auto
industry, the agricultural com
munity is still plagued by a
number of setbacks.
Though grain export sales
continue to decline, Moore stated
that recent agreements with the
USSR and China indicate that
these countries will remain a
continuing source of revenue. But
the speaker cautioned that
agricultural surpluses have been a
fact of farming life since in 1930’5,
and will no doubt continue to be one
of the American farmer’s long
range problems.
On the plus side, Moore noted
that consumer confidence is up,
and the value of U.S. agricultural
land is once again on the rise. In
reviewing this year’s PIK
program. Moore credited drought
conditions with reducing the com
surplus rather than PIK, itself.
The economist predicted good
times for the beef industry during
the latter half of 1904, and con
cluded that the overall agricultural
outlook for the coming year is
favorable.
Following a buffet luncheon, Bill
Brubaker, president of Organic
Plant Food Co., discussed the
Master Farmer programs for the
coming year, and reviewed the
results of the newly completed
study of the Chesapeake Bay.
Brubaker touched on the
nullification problems plaguing
the Chesapeake and the im
plications for farmers located
within the bay’s drainage system.