D6-Lancaster Farming Saturday, July 28,1990
Morgan Heads FMC
Ag Chem Group
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. Earl
L. Morgan has assumed the re
sponsibility for FMC’s Agricul
tural Chemical Group, effective
immediately. Morgan replaces
David D. Eckert, general manager,
who has resigned to pursue other
interests.
Morgan has been managing di
rector of ACG International since
April 1976, when he joined FMC
Corporation. Prior to that he was
vice president and general man
ager, international division, for
Cleaning Products
Dissolve In Water
ST. PAUL, MN An innova
tive line of dairy farm cleaning
and sanitation products designed
for convenience, effectiveness,
and reliability is available from
Klenzade, a service of Ecolab Inc.
FastPac™ is a line of four pro
ducts in a unique superconcen
trated form packaged in water
soluble packets. To use simply
drop the appropriate number of
packets into a pail, jar, or tank of
water. The packets completely
dissolve, creating a solution ready
for use.
The product line includes Fast-
Pac 110, alkaline, (cleaning-in
place (CIP) detergent; FastPac
220, CIP acid detergent; FastPac
425, manual cleaner; and FastPac
623, udder wash. Each product
packet is color-coded to eliminate
dispensing mistakes.
Packets range in weight from
'A to VA ounces each. The Fast-
Pac products are packaged in con
tainers slightly smaller than a two
pound coffee can. Compared to
five-gallon pails, this is a major
Wanted: Better Farm Bill
HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.)
Eight members of the Pennsyl
vania Farmers Union (PFU) joined
forces with ISO other union mem
bers across the United States in an
all-out effort to convince members
of the U.S. Congress that agricul
ture producers were being short
changed by the proposed 1990
farm bill.
The Fanners Union members
urged members of Congress to
support amendments to the pro
posed farm bill that are being in
troduced by members of Congress,
which reflect the positions of
Fanners Union.
Allen Deiter, president of PFU
said, “This is the third trip that var
ious members of PFU have made
to Washington D.C. on behalf of
agriculture producers. If the pro
posed farm bill is not amended,
then we could very well see an
exodus of another 500,000 agri
culture producers during the next
five years.”
Members of the group" said
higher farm prograip loans rates,
coupled with sound supply-rpan
agement measures, would stimu
late commodity markets while sta-
ness
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Evans Products Company in Port
land, Oregon from 1974 to 1976.
From 1966 to 1974, he was in
charge of Monsanto Company’s
operations in Buenos Aires in Ar
gentina as president and managing
director.
Morgan holds a degree in inter
national relations from the Univer
sity of Minnesota as well as a
bachelor of foreign trade from the
American Institute of Foreign
Trade.
storage space and weight savings.
FastPac 110 contains 30 packets,
while the other three products
contain 73 packets.
Since each packet is pre
measured, cleaning consistency is
assured, helping to keep bacterial
counts down and milk quality
high. The concentrated packets
are safer than conventional liquid
and powder cleaning chemicals
because there are no liquid or
powder spills or leaks from con
tainers or measuring devices.
FastPac containers are much
easier to store, ship, and handle
than large pails or barrels. Made
of fiberboard, the small canisters
minimize plastic container dispos
al concerns, a growing problem
throughout the country. Like the
individual packets, each FastPac
container is color-coded to reduce
possible misapplications. For
more information on FastPacs and
other Klenzade products, contact
your dairy farm sanitation supplier
or write Klenzade, Farm Sales
Dept., Ecolab Inc., Ecolab Center,
St. Paul. MN 55102.
bilizing food supplies and farm
prices. “As long as we’re in a posi
tioin where we’re able to produce
more than we can consume and
export, we have to have programs
in place that stabilize supply levels
around the demand for the prod
ucts,” said NFU President Leland
Swenson.
Farmers Union is endorsing a
two-tier supply management pro
gram for dairy farmers, but the
group told members of Congress
that a milk support price of $lO.lO
per cwt. is totally inadequate.
Farmers Union officials believe
that a milk support price of $13.10
per cwt. is needed to cover the
average cost of producing milk.
Officials of PFU have proven
that a milk support price of
$13.10, coupled with a two-tier
supply management program,
would come under the restraints of
the U.S. Senate budget recommen
dations.
The PFU members told their
legislators that loans rates to grain
farmers must be raised along with
a cost of production adjustment
being tied to the target prices.
Eagles’
CONCORDVILLE (Delaware
Co.) Buddy Ryan, head coach
of the Philadelphia Eagles, has
agreed to become the spokesman
for Wenner Ford Tractor, a Ford
New Holland dealer located south
of West Chester on Route 202.
Coach Ryan has always owned
Ford tractors, which he uses on his
horse farm in Kentucky. To add (o
the 20-year-old Ford 3000 tractor
and the many other Ford and New
Holland implements the Ryans use
on the farm. Buddy just purchased
a new 3910 tractor-loader at Wen
ner Ford Tractor.
Plans are under way for an open
house in August 1990 at Wenner
Ford Tractor where Buddy Ryan
will be the featured guest. The last
10 years have seen Wenner Ford
Tractor grow from 16 employees
in 1980 to 31 employees today.
Formerly known as Wenner
Ford Equipment Company, Wen
ner Ford Tractor moved to its pre
sent location in 1982 from a site
located just south of Route 1 on
Route 202.
In 1988, Wenner Ford Tractor
was awarded the contract to pro
vide the Philadelphia Electric
Shown with Buddy’s new tractor are, from left, Coach Ryan; Joyce McLaughlin,
advertising manager; and John Wanner, president of Wanner Ford Tractor.
New Holland Has Tale To Tell
NEW HOLLAND (Lancaster
Co.) The first in-depth story of
New Holland Machine Company
from 189 S through its sale to Ford
Motor Company in 1986 will be
told in a privately-printed limited
edition to be published this /all.
‘The Innovators” is based on
official company files and the
memories of many of the people
directly involved in the success of
the Lancaster County company
which rose from the bottom to the
top of its segment of the world
wide farm equipment industry.
The book is being published this
year to mark the 50th anniversary
of the 1940 reorganization of the
Buddy Ryan Speaks Up
For Wenner Ford
Company with all the excavating
equipment required to build new
systems and maintain existing
ones.
In addition to leasing more than
100' tractor-loader-backhoes,
Wenner Ford Tractor provides
Philadelphia Electric with skid
steer loaders, trailers, breakers,
trenchers, sweeper brooms, post
hole diggers, and many other at
tachments.
Operators for some of this
equipment are also provided by
Wenner Ford Tractor. To the al
ready complete staff of sales, ser
vice, and support personnel, seven
employees, along with a fleet of
six service trucks, were added to
devote full attention to servicing
the needs of Philadelphia Electric.
As one of the major, and many
times the most profitable Sperry
divisions. New Holland became
the world’s largest manufacturer
of specialized farm equipment,
selling in more than 90 countries.
Even though New Holland never
had a tractor in its line, in later
years it was usually among the top
five of all farm equipment com
panies.
company and the commercial pro
duction of the automatic hay baler.
Originally the New Holland
Machine Works in 1895, the com
pany was incorporated as* New
Holland Machine Company in
1903 by the founder, Abram Zim
merman. In 1940, the struggling
company was purchased by a
group of Lancaster County men
employed by the former Dellinger
Manufacturing Company. Active
in the reorganized company in its
quick climb to success in the early
1940 s were the late Raymond D.
Buckwalter, Irl A. Daffin, George
C. Delp, and the late Rev. J. Henry
Fisher.
Key to its first major increase
New Holland hit its first billion
dollar year in 1980. After the
downturn in the agricultural econ
omy in 1983, and the merger of
Sperry and Burroughs, New Hol
land was purchased by Ford in
1986 and is now part of Ford New
Holland, third largest farm equip
ment company in the world.
The hardcover book will be ap
proximately 330 pages, including
a color section on products. Be
cause of the limited printing, or
ders are being taken in advance of
publication. Copies for those not
employed by Ford New Holland or
retirees may be ordered by sending
a check for $35 each made payable
to Philip Raezer, Agent, 1815
Edenwald Lane, Lancaster, PA
17601. Pennsylvania residents
must add six percent sales tax.
Other information about the
book may be obtained by writing
the author, Homer K. Luttringer,
1559 Mission Road, Lancaster, PA
17601. Luttringer, who joined the
company in 1947 as press relations
manager, was vice president for
worldwide marketing and com
munications when he retired in
1980.
was the acquisition of the world’s
first automatic pickup hay baler
invented by Edwin B. Nolt In
1947 the Sperry Corporation
bought the company but left man
agement in the hands of Delp and
his team after Baffin resigned to
develop his own businesses.
Significant detail is given as to
New Holland’s innovative meth
ods of managing its line and staff
divisions on a global basis. Each
division’s sometimes unique, of
ten non-traditional, way of doing
business is discussed in this first
“inside” report on what became
known as the “New Holland
Way,”