D6-Uncast*r Farming Saturday, September 6,1986
BUSINESS NEWS...
Seed way Names Sales Rep
YORK - Eugene Hohl,
macketing manager for Seedway’s
York division, announces the
appointment of Jim Vizzard as
sales representative for the
company, in eastern Pennsylvania
and northern New Jersey. He will
have sales responsibility for ap
proximately 80 dealers in his new
territory.
Jim is a 26-year-old native of
Montgomery County, where he
graduated from North Penn High
School. He later attended the
Seed way’s new sales representative, Jim Vizzard (left),
greets Curtis Zell during a recent visit to Zell's Hum
melstown-area farm.
ROCK SPRINGS - A new
technique to protect the nutritional
value of a hay crop after harvest
has been imported by Mega-Tech
International.
SilaWrap completely covers
round bales with stretch-wrapped
plastic film which arrests fer
mentation earlier than other types
of systems. Sugars, proteins and
other nutrients are preserved,
enhancing the quality and
palatability of the feed.
“The end product is highly
nutritious,” said Andrew Eills,
executive vice president of Mega-
Tech. Farmers can cut, condition
and bag the same day. No additive
is needed, he said.
The machine attracted con
siderable interest among farmers
at Ag Progress Days, an
agriculture fair held recently at
Rock Springs.
“I like it. I'm glad it’s here,”
said Tom Fisher, a Somerset
County farmer. “We made our
first round bales this year,” he
Backflush System Prevents Mastitis Spread
ELK GROVE VILLAGE, 111. - A
newly developed manual backflush
system, designed to sanitize
milker units between cows, is now
available from Westfalia
Systemat.
The Westfalia Manual Backflush
Sanitation System offers an
economical, safe and reliable way
of assisting in the control of
spreading mastitis-causing bac
teria by milker units between
cows. The system utilizes a “one
time use” germicidal solution,
mixed in-line to the proper
strength. The solution is delivered
under pressure from a mounted
chemical dispenser to con
veniently located manual back
flush valves.
The Backflush System’s
pressurized sanitizing solution
University of Maryland, receiving
( a degree in agriculture business
management in the Institute of
Applied Science two year
program.
Jim sold John Deere farm
equipment for a New Jersey
dealership at Neshantic Station,
NJ after graduation. While there,
he was active with the Hunterdon
County 4-H. Jim managed a Bucks
County dairy farm for two years
prior to joining Seedway on August
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Machine Protects Nutritional Value Of Hay Crop
New
said, adding, “It you’re going to
make round bales, you have to
have a way to store them.”
“What it appears to be doing,
we’ve needed desperately,”
manufacturing representative
Dick Griffith said. “It’s quite an
improvement.”
Manufactured and perfected in
Europe, the new machine works
right in the field. A lifting arm
picks up the bale and gently places
it onto a specially-designed turn
table and dual roller platform.
Stretch film is tucked into the
bale or under a string. The rollers
then slowly turn the bale as the
turntable rotates, tightly wrapping
the bale with film. When com
pletely covered, the film is cut and
tucked in and the turntable raised
to roll off the bale.
Designed for one-man operation,
all SilaWrap functions are
hydrostatically controlled. A
single bale can be wrapped in 50
seconds at a cost of approximately
$3 per bale. One man can wrap 50
flushes the entire milking cluster,
as well as the inflations. To
prevent solution from entering the
pipeline, a milk hose shut-off valve
is required. The one-time used
sanitizing solution is safely
discharged through the inflations
to the drain.
Westfalia’s Manual backflush
Sanitation System can be used
continuously or on an on-need basis
in any milking parlor, stanchion
barn or flat milking bam. The
Westfalia system will work with
any brand of pipeline milker or
bucket claw with shut off.
For additional information
contact; Westfalia Systemat, 1862
Brummel Drive, Elk Grove
Village, Illinois 60007.
Farm Credit Board Rejects liquidation
McLEAN, Va. - The Farm
Credit Administration Board has
rejected a plan by the Amarillo
Production Credit Association to
voluntarily liquidate and withdraw
from the nationwide cooperative
Farm Credit System.
According to FCA Board
Chairman Frank W. Naylor, Jr.,
“Allowing the Amarillo
association to liquidate and
withdraw at this time would set a
precedent that could jeopardize
the financial reliability of the
Tenth Farm Credit District and
perhaps the entire Farm Credit
System.”
The FCA Board was particularly
concerned about the impact a
withdrawal would have on the
implementation of the Farm
Credit Amendments Act of 1985.
Chairman Naylor also stated, "If
the Amarillo association were to
withdraw, it would frustrate the
plan Congress devised to solve the
System’s financial crisis, and
would adversely affect the ability
of the Farm Credit System Capital
Corporation to implement the self
help mechanism of the 1985
legislation. Withdrawal would also
send the wrong signal to the
financial markets,” said the FCA
Board Chairman.
The Chairman went on to say,
“The Capital Corporation’s
capacity to carry out its mission
depends in large part on the
healthy institutions of the System.
W-L, Beachley Announce New Alfalfa Variety
RAifPRWTPT n Calif - W-I commercial introduction. It is a Phytophthora Root Hot typically
variety with high yield hinder bey yielded q nell.y. Wj.
„prf rpoporph comnanv and potential and strong pest and 225 is recommended for its tough,
BethleXrdv SeTrecentiy disease resistance. winter hardiness, and its high
announced the development of a In studies performed on many yielding, high quality per
new variety W L 225 sites throughout the country, W-L formance.
After years of extensive 225 is proving to be competitive Contact your local Beachley
research, development and field where harsh winter conditions Hardy dealer for more in
testing, W-L 225 is now ready for Verticillium Wilt and formation.
bales in 90 minutes. SilaWrap may
be used with any size bale and any
type of haylage.
The specially manufactured film
has formulated elasticity to
maintain the bale tightly wrapped
and in shape. If a bale is punc
tured, the hole does not enlarge.
Air does not circulate so damage is
localized.
Repairs can easily be made by
covering the hole with the one
sided tacky film. But most im
portant, the end product consists of
sweet-tasting, high-nutrient
haylage so the farmer can reduce
his reliance on additives.
Imported by Mega-Tech In
ternational, a supplier of
specialized agricultural plastics, a
sales network for SilaWrap is
presently in the process of being
established. The product is being
distributed locally by Cummings
and Bricker, Inc. For more in
formation write Mega-Tech In
ternational, P.O. Box 123,
Macungie, PA 18062 or call 215-481-
9292.
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Westfalia’s manual
backflush delivers
pressurized sanitizing
solution to entire milking
duster, including inflations.
If those institutions withdraw their
resources now it would make the
work of the Capital Corporation
very difficult.”
“It is simply not consistent with
'Congressional intent to allow one
institution, which has enjoyed the
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The Farm Credit System
New High - Yield Rye Available
WILLIAMSTOWN, NY - A new
rye seed developed by the Nova
Scotia Ministry of Agriculture
offers several advantages, ac
cording to the variety’s major
propagator, Davey-Joan’s, of
Williamsport, New York.
The company claims up to 80
bushel-per-acre yields and high
resistance to winter injury, lodging
and sprouting. Although rainfall
was above normal during June,
July and August, no lodging or
sprouting was in evidence, says the
New SilaWrap automatically wraps round bales with plastic
film.
Doebler Introduces Hybrid
JERSEY SHORE - Bus tours
and introduction of three new
Eastern com hybrids will highlight
field days announced by Doebler’s
Hybrids for September 7,13 and 14.
According to Ted Doebler,
president of the family firm, the
field days will be held from 10 a.m.
to 4 p.m. at the Pine Creek Seed
Farm, Jersey Shore. This is
located 1,000 feet south of the Pine
Creek exit of Route 220 between
Williamsport and Lock Haven.
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“Growers will be able to check
and compare new hybrids, old
favorites and experimentals,” the
seed producer said.
Bus tours will give visitors a
chance to inspect 1900 acres of seed
corn as well as the unique drying
system and high tech grading
tower.
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privileges and advantages that the
Farm Credit System has provided
in the past, to threaten the future of
other System institutions by
withdrawing when other member
institutions are in need,” said
Naylor.
company.
Kustro, a fine-seeded rye
variety, can be planted from the
second week in September until
Nov. 1, with the first week in Oc
tober being the optimum time. The
rye grows late into the fall and
starts early in spring.
Seed is available in bulk
amounts and bushel bags. For
information contact: Davey-
Joan’s, Rt. 13, P.O. Box 173,
Williamstown, NY, 13493, phone:
315-964-2294.
At Field Days
Also on display will be the
company’s new computer system
and a high pressure, reel type
irrigation system.
A free lunch will be provided.
Hundreds of hybrid corns are
tested each year, Doebler pointed
out. Only three made it for 1987.
A new 112-day hybrid made the
list by outshelling a popular full
cousin by 20.1 bushels.
A new 110-day hybrid, with big
stalks and high grain yields, gives
growers the option of combining or
filling silo.
Perhaps stealing the show is a
three-way cross for the 80s. It
matches the yields, health and
stalk quality of the modem single
grosses but at a bargain basement
price. This because of the ease of
producing.
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