A2B-UncMt«r Farming, Saturday, February 16,1985
Pennfield Plans High-Tech
LANCASTER - A prototype
feed mill, unlike any other in
operation or under construction, is
being planned by Pennfield Cor
poration in the Mount Joy In
dustrial Park.
The largest feed manufacturer
based m Pennsylvania, Pennfield
expects to spend $6.4 million on the
plant, which will have the capacity
to produce 60 tons of feed per hour.
“It’s more than a feed mill,”
said Pennfield president Ernest 0.
Horn Jr. “It will be prototype for
the feed milling industry. Its
unique design will incorporate the
most current technology, and its
equipment and control system will
be engineered to readily accept
improvements in the technology of
feed formulation immediately as
they become available.”
The 28,000-square-foot “general
line” mill will produce complete
and concentrate hog and dairy
rations, the company said, though
the product mix could be changed
at any time.
The technological innovations
are the result of a cooperative
arrangement between Pennfield
and the plant’s builders, Sprout-
Waldron Division, Koppers Co.,
Inc., of Muncy, Pa. Company of
ficials expect to have the plant in
operation by October of 1986.
The state-of-the-art facility is
expected to boost Pennfteld’s
Delmarva Dairy Day
to feature PSU specialists
NEWARK, Del. - This year’s
Delmarva Dairy Day will be held
February 27, from 9 a.m. to 3:30
p.m., at the Hartly Fire Hall.
The morning speaker will be
Steve Spencer from Pennsylvania
State University. He will discuss
what’s new in milking equipment.
Spencer is an extension specialist
in milking machinery and for
merly chaired the American Dairy
Science Association’s committee
for the approval of milking
machines.
In the afternoon another Penn
State specialist, extension dairy
nutritionist Dick Adams will show
It’s Pork Congress time
HARRISBURG - For Pa. pork
producers, all roads will lead to
Harrisburg’s Penn Hams Motor
Inn on Thursday, Feb. 21, for the
seventh annual Keystone Pork
Congress.
A full slate of educational
seminars is scheduled for the
morning, with Dr. Stan Curtis of
the University of Illinois presen
ting an update on the animal rights
issue, and James Van Horn ad
vising farmers on how to cope with
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production to 800,000 tons annually.
Sale of animal and poultry feeds
account for about half of the firm’s
annual sales, which last year
exceeded $l5O million. The firm
serves a variety of customers
within a 125-mile radius of Lan
caster.
The company’s Hempfield
operation, which currently
produces poultry feed, opened in
1976 and was considered at that
time to have the best technology
available. It is capable of
producing 80 tons of feed per hour.
Pennfield was formed in 1971
from the merger of Miller &
Bushong, Inc. of Rohrerstown, and
D.E. Horn and Co., Inc., of„York.
In 1982, the company bought out
the Pennfield stock held by the
Graybill family, and Horn
assumed the presidency of the
firm.
A privately held company,
Pennfield also owns and operates
Pennfield Farms Egg Division in
Ephrata, Pennfield Farms Poultry
Meat Division in Fredericksburg,
and the Beachley-Hardy Seed
Company in Camp Hill.
Pennfield, which is based in
nearby Rohrerstown, will seek
financing through the Lancaster
Industrial Development Authority,
according to Ken Greenwood,
manager of feed production.
farmers how to use forage test
results to balance feed rations.
Adams is the author of several
computer programs for dairy
feeding.
Participants should bring a
pocket calculator to this meeting.
They should also bring feed and
forage analyses from their own
feed if these figures are available
Otherwise, figures will be provided
for use in making the calculations.
Lunch tickets will cost $1 and are
available from county extension
agents in Delaware and Eastern
Shore Maryland
stress in today’s uncertain ag
economy.
And a "full-house” of nearly 50
commercial exhibitors will be on
hand to showcase the latest in
swine-growing technology.
Missouri producer Roland "Pig”
Paul will be the evening banquet’s
featured speaker. The complete
Congress schedule can be found in
the Livestock section of today’s
paper
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An artist's conception of the new feed m
Pennfield Corp. in the Mount Joy Industrial Park
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