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Automatic Applicator For Corn Silage
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Mount an Automatic Applicator on your blower or
roller mill and treat silage as it goes Into the silo, it’s
the accurate way to apply additives uniformly and effi
ciently according to Ryder Supply. Units available
with 12, 25, or 55-gallon polyolefin tanks with 5-inch
fillwell and screw-on lid. Features include gallonage
corrosion-free nylon and brass plumbing with pres
sure relief valve and pressure gauge. Choose from
120 V AC or 12V DC operation. DC units are equipped
with wiring harness and controls to allow operation
from the tractor seat.
■ For further details contact the manufacturer, Auto
matic Equipment Mfg. Co., Department NR, Pender,
Nebraska 68047, 402-385-3054, or the Distributor,
Ryder Supply, Box 219, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania
17201, 717-263-9111.
Sire Power Names Intern
Jonathan Merriam, Hickman,
California, has been employed by
Sire Power as the Marketing
Department summer intern,
according to R. Rinell Vincent,
Director of Marketing. The sum
mer internship position is designed
to provide practical experience in
the overall communications,
promotion, and marketing of the
Sire Power cooperative. As Mark
eting Assistant, Jonathan will
work with sire directory produc
tion, advertising, tours, and Sire
Power Sale ’B7.
Jonathan was raised on the fami
ly dairy, Rivcrvicw Farms, a 290
head Jersey and 175 head Holstein
operation. As assistant herdsman,
his main responsibilities include
sire selection, record keeping, and
animal health and nutrition. He has
served as a 4-H club president and
was a member of Future Farmers
of America, receiving the Ameri
can Farmer Degree in 1985.
After receiving an Associate
Degree in Dairy Science from
Modesto Junior CoHege, Jonathan
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Jonathan Merriam
enrolled at the California
Polytechnic Slate University, San
Luis Obispo, where he just com
pleted his junior year as a Dairy
Science major. He has held the
position of copy editor for the Los
Lccheros Dairy Club Yearbook,
and was recently elected as the
Dairy Club president for the
upcoming school year. While at
Rectangular Balers By John Deere
John Deere has introduced four
new rectangular balers with
improved perforarnce, reliability,
ease of service and easier knotter
adjustment.
The 8 Series balers are the 328
and 338, both with 80 SPM
plungerhead, and the 348 and 468
with 93 SPM plungerhead (the 468
operates at 93-stroke plunger
speed at 540 rpm for normal opera
tion but can run as high as 100
SPM if conditions require). All
four have a 30-inch stroke and 74
in. wide pickup.
The 328 has 104 teeth on four
bars; the other three have 156 teeth
on six bars.
The 348 is a high-capacity
14x18 baler; the 468 has a 16x18
bale case with adjustable side
doors, multi-lubrication, hydraulic
bale tension and four-position
feeder forks. In addition, the 468
has replaceable liners in the bot
tom of the bale case and in the pre
compression chamber of the auger
housing for extended baler life,
and the bale case has been rein
forced for greater strength.
On all four 8 Series balers, the
knotter has a larger-diameter nee
dle lift shaft (on both twine and
wire) for increased strength. The
new Split-design knotter frame
enables easy removal to improve
servicing of high-use balers. Other
new features ensure ease of adjust
ment. Coil spring tension on the
twine holder enables a wider range
of adjustment and twine disk tim
ing has been has been made easier.
Other improvements reduce the
cost of repair; the billhook cam
National Pork Producers
Back
DES MOINES, lOWA After
months of research and negotia
tions by the National Pork Produc
ers Council and a coalition of other
commodity and general farm orga
nizations, a bill designed to
restructure the financially ailing
Farm Credit System was intro
(duced today by U.S. Senator
Richard Lugar (R-IN).
The measure focuses on the cre
ation of a secondary market for
farm-backed mortgages. An
FDIC-type loan loss reserve fund
and loan restructuring for non
performing loans, except when
borrower management practices
arc questionable, are included in
the proposal.
In recent congressional testi
mony, Ray Hankes, a Fairbury,
Illinois producer who serves as
vice-president of the National Pork
Producers Council, said, “The
Farm Credit System is worth sav-
Cal Poly, Jonathan received the
Harmon Toone Scholarship and
garnered champion honors at the
Poly Royal Fitting and Showing
Contest.
Dairy judging has been a fre
quent activity for Jonathan. While
on the Modesto Junior College
team, he was high individual at the
Western National and received the
Robert Selkirk Memorial Award.
He will vc vying for £ spot on the
1987 Cal Poly jqdgmg team.
Jonathan’s many activities and
leadership abilities were recog
nized by the American Jersey
Cattle Club, as he placed as third
high individual in the 1986 Nation
al Jersey Youth Achievement
Contest.
FOUR NEW RECTANGULAR BALERS have been
introduced by John Deere. The 8 Series balers the
328 and 338 and 80 SPM plungerhead and the 348 and
468 with 93 SPM plungerhead—feature improved per
formance, reliability, ease of service and easier knot
ter adjustment, 30-inch stroke and 74 in. wide pickup.
flanges to induce tooth wear, an
offset pickup to provide more
usable area and keep tractor tires
away from the windrow, a crank to
adjust the pickup to accurate work
ing height or for transport
(hydraulic lift available), low
profile pickup to minimize lift and
save leaves and short material,
removable compressors that adjust
to nine positions to match volume,
an auger designed to reduce leaf
loss and match incoming volume
for high capacity, and a large feed
opening that closes momentarily
on compression strokes so each
charge is precompressed before
entering the bale chamber, result
ing in uniform bale density.
track, for instance, is now a sepa
rate hardened part.
The addition of a notch to the
trucker finger assures accurate
positioning of the twine on the bill
hook for every knot, improves
control of the twine for positive
wiping action, and makes the knot
ter more dependable. Ball joint
style pull links assure easy and
accurate adjustment.
A timing slot has been added to
the bale case to make it easier to
position the plungerhead accurate
ly when timing the needles.
Features valued by hay farmers
on earlier models have been
retained, such as the equal-angle
hitch, channel strippers with
Farm Credit Bill
A
The Farm Credit System
ing in some form, but the surviving
system should remain a co-op with
more, not less, local control and
farmer involvement.
Don Gingerich, a Parnell, lowa
producer who is also a member of
the National Pork Producers Coun
cil Executive Committee, said,
“Our primary concern is to save
farmers, rather than the present
structure of the system itself.”
Gingerich, Hankes' and Jim
Phillips, a pork producer from
Drexel, Missouri, have served as
members of a special task force of
the National Pork Producers Coun
cil that has been working for
months to come up with a viable
solution to the farm credit system
crisis. The task force recruited the
services of two of the nation’s
Deere Bale Mover, Feeder Available
MOLINE, 111.—The John Deere
model 84 bale mover and feeder
can be used as a bale handler for
moving round bales to and from a
storage area, and also as a bale
unroller for feeding livestock m a
range feeding operation.
The bale mover and feeder atta
ches to a Category 2 or 3 three
point hitch or Category 2 or 3N
Quik-Coupler. The bale arms arc
adjustable for bale widths from 4
foot to 5 foot 6 inch. Maximum
Farm
Credit
News
leading farm credit experts, Dr.
Neil Harl, Distinguished Professor
of Economics at lowa State Uni
versity, and former lowa Con
gressman Cooper Evans, in draw
ing up the “rescue” plan. It was
reviewed and refined by other
major commodity group members
of the Farm Credit Coalition
before presentation to Senator
Lugar, who introduced it today.
Signing on as co-sponsors were
Rudy Boschwitz (R-MN), Max
Baucus CD-MT), Christopher
Bond (R-MO), David Kames
(R-NE), Alan J. Dixon (D-IL),
John Danforth (R-MO), Robert
Dole (R-KS), Mitch McConnell
(R-KY), Petfe Wilson (R-CA), Dan
Quayle (R-IN), and Steve Symms
(R-ID).
bale weight is 2000 pounds.
Triangular bale holders," 1 adjust
able for round bales ranging from 4
to 6 feet in diameter, provide a
positive gripping surface on the
edge of the bale and rotate freely as
the bale is unrolled. A locking pm
prevents the bale from rotating
during transport.
The bale mover can be mounted
on tractors with a 1500 psi
hydraulic outlet.