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New Tests Aid Mastitis
Therapy Selection
KALAMAZOO, Mich. Two
highly specific antimicrobial sus
ceptibility tests are available from
The Upjohn Company for use in
determining the susceptibility or
resistance of bovine mastitis
pathogens to two of the firm’s
FDA-approved mastitis therapies.
One test measures the suscepti
bility of bacteria to the antibiotic
combination of penicillin and
novobiocin in Upjohn’s Albacillin®
suspension mastitis tubes. The
other test predicts bacterial sus
ceptibility to pirlimycin hydrochlo
ride, the new antibiotic in Pir
sue™ Aqueous Gel.
“When selecting antibiotic
therapy to treat a disease, veteri
narians need to know that the drug
they choose will be effective
against the bacteria they’re trying
to kill.” said Jeffrey Watts, a
research microbiologist with The
Upjohn Company.
Of the eight antibiotic formula
tions approved to treat mastitis in
lactatmg dairy cattle, said Watts,
only the penicillm/novobiocin and
Agway Reports
1993-1994 Results
SYRACUSE, NY —Agway
Inc. reported consolidated sales
and revenues of $1.7 billion for
fiscal year 1992-1994 which
ended June 30, essentially the
same as last year.’
Net margins from continuing
operations were $0.7 million, but
when $4.0 million losses from the
farm cooperative’s discontinued
operations were included, the
final net result was a loss of $3.3
million compared with a $19.8
million profit last year.
On September 27 the board of
directors of Curtice Burns Foods,
Inc. announced that it had accept
ed an offer from Pro-Fac Cooper
ative to acquire all outstanding
shares of Curtice Burns stock and
that Curtice Burns has entered
into a definitive merger agreement
with Pro-Fac. Both Curtice Burns
Foods and H. P. Hood are report
ed as discontinued operations in
Agway’s annual report, to be
Treated Seed Produces
Bigger Wheat Yields
LANDISVILLE, (Lancaster
Co.) In trials conducted by the
Poplar Hill Research Facility in
Salisbury, Md. and Hoffman
Seeds, Baytan 30 treated wheat
seed produced substantial yield
increases over Vitavax varieties.
In the Poplar Hill trials over
three locations, Baytan treatment
yielded an average of 7.4
bushel/acre more than the Vitavax
treatment. At a market ‘ l pri(;e of
$3.00 per bushel that amounts to a
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Two highly specific
antimicrobial susceptibility
tests are available from The
Upjohn Company for use in
determining the suscepti
bility or resistance of bovine
mastitis pathogens to two
of the firm’s FDA-approved
mastitis therapies.
pirlimycin susceptibility tests
were developed using mastitis
pathogens and actual drug levels
in milk. The susceptibility tests
for the other six drugs utilize data
from human bacteria, not mastitis
pathogens.
Veterinarians have employed
susceptibility, guide antibiotic
selection, and treat specific dis
eases.
mailed in late October. Agway is
also in the process of selling H.P.
Hood, a northeastern processor
and distributor of dairy and other
food products, based in Boston,
Mass.
“Our overall financial perfor
mance was disappointing,” report
ed Donald P. Cardarelli, executive
vice president and chief operating
officer, in a letter to the farm
cooperative’s 5,300 full-time and
1,900 part-time employees.
“We had fine financial results
in our energy, leasing, insurance
and Country .Foods businesses,”
Cardarelli said. “But despite much
hard work and changes already
implemented, our agriculture sup
ply and consumer retail business
es operated below expectations.
The challenges in these two busi
nesses relate to intensifying com
petition in already difficult mar
kets. This requires us to be
increasingly productive and inno
vative.”
$22.20 boost per acre for wheat
growers.
Hoffman trials used Hoffman
89 wheat treated with Baytan ver
sus Hoffman 89 with Vitavax. The
results showed an average yield
advantage of 9.4 bushel/acre offer
four locations with a high of 12.3
bushel/acre in Northumberland.
Baytan is particularly effective
in high moisture conditions where
it reduces the risk of powdery
mildew.
Directors Attend Asgrow/Seedway
Training Seminar
GALENA, Md. —F.M. Brown’s
nine area directors recently returned
from an intensive soybean and com
seminar conducted here at the As
grow Research Farm.
The seminar, put on by Asgrow
and sponsored by Seedway, was
aimed at training the F.M.
Brown’s area directors on produc
tion and growth characteristics of
seed com and soybeans.
F.M. Brown’s recently was
recognized by Seedway at their
annual meeting as the number one
distributor of seed corn and the
number two distributor of soy
beans in the Seedway York divi
sion sales area.
Bill Rhodes, soybean research
associate with Asgrow, reviewed
how the Asgrow Soybean vari
eties currently sold by Brown’s
were developed.
Joe Maloney, Asgrow corn
research associate, continued the
tour with a discussion of Asgrow
seed corn.
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The seminar moved indoors
where the work of selecting,
retaining, and storing many gener
ations of research seeds takes
place. Growth chambers and
greenhouses where much of the
disease resistance testing is done
were also viewed. Eric Scheib
(F.M. Brown’s seed division man
ager), Fred Mohr (Seedway Asso
ciate director of marketing), and
Brent Miller (Seedway area sales
manager) then reviewed how
information/yield data taken from
Brown’s extensive corn silage,
shelled corn, and soybean test plot
program is combined with infor
mation from other areas in the east
to determine which varieties of
corn and beans will be marketed
the following year.
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Bill Rhodes, soybean
research associate with
Asgrow Shows Brown’s area
directors a variety of Asgrow
soybeans sprayed with 32
ounces of Roundup. The
beans are genetically bred to
withstand Roundup, but the
weeds in this soybean plot
were completely eliminated.
New General Manager
For Northern Tier
MANSFIELD (Tioga Co.)
Dan Stay of Skaneateles, N.Y. has
joined John Deere Dealership
Northern Tier Implement, Inc. in
Mansfield as general manager.
Stay brings a wide range of
agribusiness experience to the
dealership. Raised on a poultry
farm near Flemington, N.J., Stay
has been exposed to agriculture
since birth. After completing stu
dies at Cornell University in Itha
ca, N.Y., he entered Agway’s
management training program.
Later, he accepted a position as
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F.M. Brown’s area directors at a recent seminar. From
left to right, standing, David McCracken, David Shank,
Steve Smelter, Dennis Kulp, Dan Wunderlick, Fred Mohr
(Seedway), and Gerry Roman. (Kneeling) Rich Graff, Brent
Miller (Seedsay), Eric Scheib, Robert Charles, and Joe
Maloney (Asgrow).
Show-Ease
Named
President’s Club
KAUKAUNA Wisconsin
Show-Ease Badger Inc., Lan
caster, Pa., has been named to the
1994 Badger Northland Pres
ident’s Club. The announcement
was made at the farm equipment
manufacturers’ recent national
dealer meeting in Green Bay.
This is the 12th year in a row
that Show-Ease Badger, located
at 573 Willow Rd., has received
the honor. The President’s Club is
to assist the company in its oper
ating policies with dealers.
Badger has a total of 400 dealers.
Banks Announce
Consolidation Plans
BALTIMORE Md. The
boards of directors of The Farm
Credit Bank of Baltimore (MD)
(FCBB) and The Farm Credit
Bank of Columbia (SC) (FCBC)
jointly announced their execution
of a letter of intent to consolidate
territory manager with Sperry-
New Holland in Upstate New
York. He was later transferred to
Minnesota.
After flSur years with New Hol
land. Stay became owner and
manager of two dealerships: an In
ternational Harvester dealership in
Wadena, Minn, and a John Deere
dealership in Pelican Rapids,
Minn. Ten years ago he moved to
upstate New York and began sell
ing computer equipment to auto
motive and farm equipment deal
ers.
Badger
To
the award are John Kreider,
right and John Kreider, Jr.,
left. Badger district sales
manager Don Swigart is in
the center.
the two institutions to form a new
Farm Credit Bank.
James A. Kinsey, chairman of
the board for FCBB, and J. Dan
Raines, Jr., chairman of the board
for FCBC, signed a letter of intent
to proceed with the development
of a consolidation plan.
The development of this plan
will be under the direction of a
steering committee comprised of
the chairman and vice chairman of
the boards and the chief executive
officers of the consolidating
banks. The consolidation of the
two Farm Credit System entities is
dependent upon an affirmative
vote by their affiliated associa
tions as well as the approval of the
Farm Credit Administration, the
banks’ regulator. It is anticipated
that the associations would vote
on the consolidation early in 1995
with an effective date of April 1,
1995, if approved.
The'two banks gave combined
assets of $9.2 billion at March 31,
1994. With loans outstanding of
more than $8 billion, the new
bank would serve member associ
ations in 15 states: Maryland,
Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Vir
ginia, Delaware, Ohio, Tennessee,
Kentucky, North and South Car
olina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama,
Mississippi, Louisiana, and the
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.