D6-Lmcaster Fanning Saturday, November 15,1986
BUSINESS NE
Agri King Targets
3 Areas For Expansion
FULTON, 111. Two Penn
sylvania and New York regions
have been chosen by an Illinois
business as areas for expansion.
Spearheading the project is a
native of Lancaster County,
Pennsylvania, Karl Kettering, now
vice president of Sales and
Marketing of Agri-King, Inc., an
18-year-old company serving
livestock farmers in 27 states and
Canada.
A total of 12 new jobs in the
northern Pennsylvania and
southern New York areas are
being created in the Agri-King
expansion, with Kettering
predicting that the expansion could
double within a year.
Kettering will be conducting
interviews November 24 in Clarks
Summit, Pennsylvania, and
November 25 in Horseheads, New
York.
Agri-King, Inc. is a high-tech
corporation which tests
homegrown feedstuffs and
balances rations for livestock
producers. Its products are
Bale Claw Handles Round
WARSAW, Ind. - The Super
Bale Claw from Worksaver, Inc. of
Litchfield, Illinois, grips and lifts
most round bales safely and ef
fectively, making stacking,
loading, and other handling chores
quick and efficient.
The Super Claw handles 1,200 to
1,800-pound bales up to 6 feet in
diameter, and is designed to fit
most .double-cylinder front-end
loaders having a load arm center
distance of 50 inches or less. Op
tional brackets which allow the
unit to fit some popular quick
coupler front-end loaders are also
available.
An adjustable claw position and
mast angle allow the Super Claw’s
six replaceable tines to grip bales
securely in almost any position.
The versatile tool can load and
unload bales directly to and from
truck beds, wagons or con
ventional trailers, thus eliminating
the need for special bale handling
trailers
For more information, contact.
Hamilton Equipment, Inc, 567
South Reading Road, P.O. Box 478,
Ephrata, PA 17522 (717) 733-7951.
SHAWANO, Wis. - A Holstein
bull calf, acquired from Latuch
Brothers, Somerset, Pa., is now
available for sampling from 21st
Century Genetics.
21st Century Genetics is in full
operation with breed-leading
statistics. The nation’s largest
direct-member, farmer-owned
cattle breeding cooperative began
in 1985 with the consolidation of
Midwest Breeders Cooperative,
Shawano and Minnesota Valley
Breeders Assocation, New Prague,
Min.
The newest offering from the
full-service cattle breeding
cooperative is 21H1166 Latuch
Enchantment Sambo-ET, a son of
vitamins and trace minerals.
Based in Fulton, Illinois, it em
ploys about 200 and completed a
record sales year August 30. Agri-
King also has a warehouse in
Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
diameter and 1,800 pounds.
Bros, Bull Enters Sampling
Cor-Vel Enchantment. The recently expanded facility has
Combined with his maternal capacity for the 100 to 110 high
grandsire, Straight-Pine Elevation genetic potential Holsteins sam-
Pete, Sambo has a Pedigree Index pled each year,
of plus 1,090 M, plus 27F, plus 16P, The 21st Century Genetics
plus $llO and a Genetic Index of sampling sire program has been
plus 1,030 M, plus 35F, plus 19F, revised recently and retains in
plus $ll9. centives to qualified users of
Sambo’s dam is Latuch sampling sire semen. The revised
Elevation Pete Laurie, EX-91-2E. sampling program allows 21st
Her top record was as a 3-year-old Century Genetics to more ef
when she had 24,588 pounds of ficiently and accurately sample its
milk, 1,156 pounds of fat and a 4.7 young sires
percent test in 365 days. Her
current Cow Index is plus 379 M,
plus 26F, plus 14P, and plus $65
Latuch
Sambo is now housed at the 21st
Century Genetics Sampling Sue
Facility near Stewartsville, Minn
w,.
Karl Kettering
Farm Credit
DENVER, Culo. - The nation’s
largest ag lender is developing new
pricing programs whereby its
banks and associations will set
interest rates at competitive levels
throughout the U.S.
Legislation passed in the final
days of the 99th Congress gave
institutions of the Farm Credit
System the authority to set their
interest rates without prior ap
proval from the System’s
regulator.
“By giving Farm Credit banks
and associations the authority to
set their interest rates, the new
legislation clears the way for us to
make our rates competitive all
across the country,” said H. Brent
Beesley, president and CEO of the
Farm Credit Corporation of
America, the System’s central
policy-setting organization.
“Congress has sent a clear
message of support for a depen
dable, borrower-owned source of
credit to agriculture,” said John A.
Southeast
WEST CHESTER - The board
of directors of the Southeast Farm
Credit Service announces the
availability of its sixth annual $5OO
scholarship toward the higher
education of a student planning to
pursue a career in agriculture. The
Southeast Associations have of
fices in Avondale and Silverdale
with an outpost office in
Creamery; the headquarters office
is located in West Chester. They
serve over 1,600 members of the
agricultural community in Bucks,
Chester, Delaware, Montgomery
and Philadelphia counties with
long and short term financing.
One of the requirements of the
Bales Easily
idles up to 6 feet in
In addition, the young bulls are
now eligible to become part of the
Genetic Acceleration Program
after their initial sampling period
is completed.
To Set ‘Competitive’ Rates
Waits, president of The Farm
Credit Council, the Washington
based trade association for the
Farm Credit System.
During the past 18 months,
Beesley explained, System in
stitutions were hindered in their
efforts to adjust to market changes
in interest rates. “The new
legislation gives us the flexibility
to rectify that situation by im
plementing loan pricing programs
which make competitive rates
The Farm Credit System
Farm Credit Offers
applicant is that his parents or
guardian must reside in one of
those counties. The applicant must
be a high school senior planning to
attend a four year college on a full
time basis with agriculture or agri
business as the major emphasis of
study.
Notification of the availability of
the scholarship is being sent to the
administrators of the secondary
schools in the five county area.
Southeast Farm Credit also in-
York Farm Credit Reduces Rates
YORK - The York Farm Credit
Service has announced reduced
rates for its two lending
organizations.
Duane G. Bosler, executive vice
president, reports that the
Production Credit Association of
York has reduced its rates to a
range of 7.75 to 11 percent.
Bosler also announced a
reduction in rates for their Land
Bank Fixed and Adjustable Rate
Mortgages to 8.75 to 11.5 percent,
and stated that their traditional
variable rate morteaoe loan rates
Berg Offers New
In-Line Mixers
MARSHFIELD, Wise. - Berg
Equipment Company announces
the addition of a senes of in-line
batch mixers for use in preparing
totally blended rations to their full
line of feeding equipment
The batch mixers are available
in two configurations with 11
different size capacities enabling
the user to match needs with
available space. Sizes range from
45 cubic feet to 600 cubic feet. The
completely horizontal design
Greater capacity and thorough mixing result from Berg's
horizontal design.
available to all borrowers,” hi
added.
“A competitive pricing program
for the Farm Credit System, with
more than 480 institutions,
requires a well thought out plan for
application,” Beesley said. “It will
take us a little time, but the new
pricing authorities that Congress
has given us will result in lower
rates for many System borrowers
in the very near future. ’ ’
Farm
Credit
News
Scholarship
tends to reach as many of the
private schools in the area as
possible; the scholarship is not
limited to the public school
systems. Anyone whose,
educational institution was not
contacted should not consider
himself excluded from requesting
an application form. Contact the
Southeast Farm Credit Service,
Administrative Office, P.O. Box
514, West Chester, PA, 19381 or
telephone (215) 431-1257.
had been reduced to 10.75 percent
from 11.5 percent.
“Farm Credit’s purpose, as a
farmer-owned cooperative, has
always been to provide our farmer
borrowers with the lowest interest
rates possible. We are pleased to
be able to lower our rates,” Bosler
said.
The York Farm Credit Service
provides short- and long-term
loans to farmers in Adams,
Cumberland, Franklin, Fulton,
Terry, and York counties
allows tor greater capacity and
more thorough mixing in less time
, The units are available with a
variety of options including an
electronic digital read-out scale
and a unique, simple method of
continuously measuring weight of
material as it is being added to the
mixer
For further information, contact
Berg Equipment Company, P 0
Box 507, Marshfield, WI 54449,
telephone 715/384-2151.