Caymans process their own feed and add profits
CHAMBERSBURG - Livestock
and egg producers who invest in
on-the-farm feed processing
systems do so for two primary
reasons.
First, they are concerned with
achieving a more uniform mix.
They know that accurately
Lange heads Delmarva Poultry Assoc
GEORGETOWN, Del. - Otto K.
Lange, vice president and general
manager of Buyers’ Marketing
Service, Inc., Salisbury,
Maryland, is the 1986 president of
Delmarva Poultry Industry, Inc.
(DPI), trade association for
Delmarva’s billion dollar broiler
industry. Lange has been
associated with Delmarva’s
poultry industry for the past 28
years.
Lange and his wife, Connie, live
in Salisbury, Maryland. They have
DPI hires new executive assistant
GEORGETOWN, Del. - Ef
fective, Jan. 1, Gerald B. Truitt,
Jr. assumed the position of
executive assistant of Delmarva
Poultry Industry, Inc. (DPI), the
poultry trade association
representing all phases of the
billion dollar broiler industry on
the Delmarva Peninsula. He fills
the vacancy created by the
retirement of William E. Stephens
who served in that capacity until
December 31,1985.
“We are extremely delighted
that Jerry Truitt has accepted this
position for which he is uniquely
qualified,” commented Ed Ralph,
DPI executive director. “Jerry has
been very active in DPI activities
for the past 25 years - having
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Other officers serving with
Lange are; Ist vice president -
David VanHoose, general
manager, Paramount Poultry -
Cargill, Inc., Harbeson, Del.; 2nd
vice president - Dr. Keith E.
Rinehart, vice president,
Technical Services, Perdue
Farms, Inc., Salisbury, Md.; and
immediate past president - Paul E.
Ferrier, president, G & M Sales of
Delmarva, Salisbury, Md.
served as DPI president in 1984, an
active director for many years
plus effective committee chairman
and member on numerous oc
casions.
“Jerry’s work experiences with
the Worcester Fertilizer Company,
Maryland Farm Credit, Maryland
National Bank and most recently
with Equitable Bank have
provided him with a great wealth
of experience and a broad
knowledge of the Shore and con
tacts with large numbers of people
in all walks of life, ’ ’ Ralph said.
Truitt and his wife, Jean, live in
Salisbury, Maryland. They have
two sons: Gerald B. Truitt, 111, and
John W. Truitt.
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producers opt for on-the-farm feed
mixing today.
Ronald and Clifford Gayman,
owners of Hillside Poultry Farm in
Chambersburg, Pennsylvania are
egg producers who have been
milling their own feed with a
volumetric automatic system for
several years, and recently up
dated their system by installing a
Prater Blue Streak Feed
Processor.
“Our first system sold us on
processing our own feed,” says
Ronald Gayman, general
manager. “Almost immediately
we could see the profitability in
higher production. We saved time
too, since the system was fully
automated.”
Although the system was a
definite plus to production, the
Caymans knew that a processor
which could deliver a more ac
curate mix, measured by weight,
would increase profits even more.
“We had the best volumetric
system available to producers at
the time," says Cayman. “The
Prater Feed Processor was not
available to the farmer when we
first decided to mill our own feed. ’ ’
The Cayman’s new Prater feed
processor was installed in Sep
tember 1985. According to their
records, the system is delivering a
batch of more accuracy and
consistency than the volumetric
system.
Because the Prater Blue Streak
Processor is compact, it could be
fit into the same 12 foot-by-12-foot
space the existing system oc
cupied; so there was no need for
extensive remodeling to ac
comodate the change. Parts for the
old system could be adapted to the
Prater system resulting in even
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According to Gayman, the
decision to update was based on
several features of the Prater
system that would improve and
expedite processing.
He noted Prater’s mixing
principle known to the industry as
“Twin Spiral Mixing.” This refers
to the fact that two vertical spirals
turning at different speeds within
the mixing chamber create a
differential mixing action.
The material being mixed is
actually moving in three directions
simultaneously; vertically
downward, vertically upward, and
horizontally between the spirals.
Prater calls this the “H” action.
Maximum uniformity and ac
curacy were the main reasons the
Caymans chose the Prater system.
First, it offered a hammermill
powered by a 7¥t HP motor with
thirty-six heavy duty hammers,
designed to run slowly. This
provides a more uniform grind.
Secondly, the system’s micro
ingredient hopper, outfitted with
vibratory feeders, dispensed micro
ingredients such as antibiotics,
into a high accuracy weigher for
the most accurate on-the-farm
batching available to date.
“We were also looking to con
serve energy and save time,” says
Cayman. “We found that the
Prater system is designed for
energy efficiency, and that
cleaning has been simplified with a
drop bottom cleanout design.
There is very little I need to do to
keep the system operational,” he
continues. “The system runs with
very little help from human hands.
I simply push a button in the
morning, and forget it the rest of
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This particular system j s
programmed to mix twelve bat
ches of feed per day. The unit ij
also advertised as being the easiest
system on the market to service.
The new Prater Processor was
installed at Hillside Poultry Farm
by Tam Agri Corporation of
Dillsburg, Pennsylvania. Tam
Agri also installed and serviced the
previous volumetric system. The
company is well known to the in
dustry for its reliable service and
its “turn key” operation. This
allows them to take a job from
design through to a completed
operating system, supplying grain
bins, bucket elevators, di7ers, and
buildings as necessary.
Hillside Poultry Farm is an
integrated egg processing
operation which means that feed is
manufactured on the site and some
ot the produce is sold right on the
premises in a “farm store." Other
eggs from this computerized
operation are distributed to
markets for sale. The Caymans
feel that they are a large operation
when measured on the family
type, independent producer scale
They are currently feeding ap
proximately 140,000 birds a day
and gathering upwards of 3,000,000
dozen eggs per year.
The growing enterprise began in
1932 when Ronald and Clifford’s
grandfather, John Cayman,
started with less than 500 chickens.
Today, these third generation
Caymans operate the egg
producing facility, the farm store,
and they farm more than 500 acres
of crops per year. Two full-time
farm hands help with the work and
several part-timers are employed
in the egg facility.
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