D6—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September i, 1984
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White Oak
BY GLENN KNIGHT
ELIZABETHTOWN -
“Ultimately, if the fanner suc
ceeds, so do we,” is the simple
philosophy of White Oak Mill.
Brothers John and Mark Wagner
note that with the grace of God and
a staff of good employees, their
business has out-grown its
facilities in only eight years. To
meet the needs of their customers,
White Oak has taken over the
century-old Grubb Supply Com
pany in nearby Elizabethtown.
White Oak offers its own brand of
feed to its customers, 90 percent of
which are hog farmers. Grubb has
been selling its Garden Spot Dairy
Feed to most of its customers.
The White Oak operation will
move to the Grubb location and do
business as White Oak. They will
continue to sell their own brands of
feed both White Oak and Garden
Spot. No employees will be lost in
the 12-mile move, in fact they plan
to hire two more dairy specialists
one more for Lancaster County
and one for Franklin, Cumberland
and Dauphin Counties.
White Oak currently services
Lancaster, York and Adams
Counties while Grubb has been
mainly in Lancaster County. The
new company will have seven
delivery trucks and 30 employees.
According to John Wagner, “The
move will give us better
manufacturing facilities, in
creased storage and access to both
rail and highway transportation.
Elizabethtown is closer to the
center of our marketing area.”
Adding to the convenience of the
new facility will be toll-free
telephone lines for customers.
Even with the expansion, the
Wagners believe that they are still
small enough to offer personal
service to their hog and dairy
customers. Mark notes that far
mers can still call up and talk with
the owners if they need to.
“We make a high quality feed
and market it directly to the far
mer saving them the middle-man’s
charges,” notes John. White Oak
had been affiliated with a national
brand of feed but about four years
ago they became dis-satisfied with
the lack of control they had over
the product. They gave up the
franchise, developed their own
formula and started selling the
White Oak brand. Apparently it
has worked gross sales have
increased from a half million tons
in the first year to 10 million only
eight years later. “We simply
outgrew our former grist mill at
White Oak,” said John.
In addition to expanding into the
dairy market, the move to the E
town plant will allow the bigger
company to offer grain exchange,
storage and even grain purchasing
to their customers. The larger
retail facility will also offer things
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acquires Grubb Supply
John and Mark Wagner get some help from the Grubbs,
Paul Sr., and Paul Jr., in identifying the new White Oak Feeds
store. White Oak took over the former Grubb Supply in
Elizabethtown on Aug. 1. The new company will continue both
the White Oak brand of feeds for hogs and the Garden Spot
Dairy Feed brand.
like shavings for bedding, small
animal foods and medications.
They will even be able to merge
high technology with White Oak’s
office management computer and
Grubb’s forage analysis computer
both available.
Paul Grubb Jr., will continue
with White Oak as the assistant
controller, Paul Grubb Sr., who
Krause honors
C.B. Hoober
HUTCHINSON, Kan. - C.B.
Hoober & Sons, Inc., Main Street,
Intercourse, was recognized for
their outstanding sales per
formance at a gathering of more
than 800 farm equipment dealers
and their stives in Hutchinson,
Kansas.
Charles Hoober, owner of C.B.
Hoober & Sons, was present at
“EXPO 84” to accept the award.
The expo was held by Krause Plow
Corporation, a manufacturer of
farm tillage equipment, to
demonstrate its new and improved
product lines to its nationwide
dealer network.
According to Floyd Barkman,
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has been in the business since 1927
and recently stepped down- as
owner, will stay on as a dedicated
employee.
How do you stay competitive in
the highly volatile feed business?
“We are listening to and meeting
the needs of the agricultural
community.” is John Wagner’s
method.
Krause advertising and product
promotion manager, “In view of
the current farm economy, this
achievement has been out
standing. C.B. Hoobers is a very
progressive farm equipment
dealer, and one that we’re proud to
be associated with.”
During the Expo the dealers
watched 15 units demonstrated in
the field, including the newest
Krause product, a line of grain
drills. The dealers also toured the
modem Krause plant and attended
an evening banquet which featured
Dr. John Marten, staff economist
for Farm Journal Magazine, as
keynote speaker.
BUSINESS NE
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This new RP Series of round balers from Vicon features a
wide open feed inlet and a fixed dimension open bale
chamber to make starting and finishing perfect round bales
easier than ever before.
Vicon reports
round balers
CHESAPEAKE, Va. - Vicon
Farm Machinery, Inc.,
Chesapeake, Va., introduces two
new fixed chamber round balers
designed to make starting and
finishing smooth, even-shaped
round bales easier than ever
before.
The Series RP 1210 and RP 1510
round balers produce four-foot and
five-foot bales, respectively, with a
high density, weatherproof outer
shell and a less dense inner-core
that cures slowly and naturally.
The new Vicon RP round balers
feature a full-floating pick-up that
cleanly lifts the crop into a wide
open feed inlet. The crop is then
evenly distributed into the full
width of the bale chamber where it
tumbles, loosely compacting the
bale from the outside inward. This
eliminates weaving on the window
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Charles Hoober, center, ol C.B. Hoober & Sons, Inc., In
tercourse, receives award from representatives of Krause
Plow Corporation, Daryl Peifer, left, and Gayle BSri.
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and assures the operator of an
even, tightly wrapped bale core
every time. All types of hay, com
stover or any other crop residue
can be handled with Vicon’s new
round balers.
The new Vicon RP round balers
are manufactured at Vicon, Inc.,
Cambridge, Ontario Canada and
are currently available at Vicon
dealers throughout the United
States.
Vicon Farm Machinery, Inc.,
Chesapeake, VA, is one of the
North American daughter com
panies of Vicon B.V. Vicon
markets a wide range of square
and' round balers, disc
mower/conditioners, disc mowers,
rakes, tedders, tedder/rake
combinations, seeder/spreaders,
sprayers and tillage tools.