GfrLancaster Farming, Saturday, May 13, 1995
Mudder Tractor
From Massey Ferguson
ATLANTA, Ga.—Massey Fer
guson’s new MF 399 Mudder
tractor is specially designed to
provide high crop clearance and
creep ground speeds. It is avail
able in either a cab or footstep
four-wheel-drive model.
* ‘The MF®399 Mudder tractor
is well adapted to vegetable or
bedded fanning typically found in
the western states, as well as rice
field fanning in the delta area of
Louisiana and Arkansas,” said
Wilfred Boyle, director, Massey
Ferguson operations. “With 95
PTO horsepower, this tractor is
the ideal size to handle cultivating,
planting, transplanting, and
harvesting applications.”
The MF 399 Mudder utilizes a
standard 12x12 Synchronized
Shuttle transmission with an
optional creeper gear that adds
four extra-slow forward speeds.
The transmission with creeper
gear provides ground speeds as
low as .21 mph at standard PTO
rpm, and a transport speed of just
Select Sires Hires Detwiler
PLAIN CITY. Ohio—Paul
Detwiler has been named to the
newly created position of director
of marketing and advertising at
Select Embryos, Inc. in Plain City,
Ohio.
In his new role, Detwiler’s
primary responsibility is market
development for domestic and
international embryo sales on
behalf of the owner’s who house
their embryo donors at Select
Embryos. In addition, Detwiler
will be instrumental in the market
ing of direct thaw and transfer
embryos.
He also will develop advertis
ing plans, conduct tours for
domestic and international visi
tors, and promote Select
ASA Director Testifies For Biodiesel
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The
American Soybean Association
proposed changes in regulations
for the Alternate Fuel Transporta
tion Program that would enable
biodiesel to reach its full potential
as a renewable fuel.
ASA’s testimony before the
Department of Energy’s Office of
Energy Efficiency and Renewable
Energy was presented by Mike
Yost, a farmer from Murdock,
Minn., and a member of the ASA
board of directors. Favorable clar
ification and revision of the Alter
native Fuel Program regulations to
include biodiesel and biodiesel
powered alternative fueled vehi
cles (AFVs) is a priority for
America’s soybean farmers.
Yost told the panel that ASA
strongly supports the Energy Poli
cy Act of 1992 (EPACT) and
firmly believes that biodiesel
should play an important role in
the implementation of that legisla
tion. Increased use of biodiesel as
a result of implementation of
EPACT can improve our environ-
New Massey Ferguson MF
399 Mudder Tractor Is spe
cially designed to provide
high crop clearance and
creep ground speeds.
over 19 mph at rated engine rpm.
This wide range of speeds pro
vides excellent speed matching
from harvesting and “pick and
pack” operations to high transport
speeds.
Ground clearance is 24.6 inches
under the front axle and 20.1
inches under the drawbar. With
these high clearances, the tractor
can be operated over tall or bed
ded crops without damaging the
plants and improving crop quality
and profitability.
Embryo’s products and services.
“Direct Thaw and Transfer is a
new technology which is the
future of on-farm embryo trans
fer,” Detwiler said in a company
news release. “We believe there is
great market potential for embryos
that are delivered to farmers
through America’s best sales force
for transfer into their recipients at
the farmer’s convenience. Direct
Thaw and Transfer ertibryos will
play a major role in the future of
Select Embryos,” he said.
Formerly, Detwiler served as a
regional sales manager and sire
program consultant with NOBA.
An Ohio native, he and his wife
Shelly reside in Marysville, Ohio
with their two young sons, Jake
and Luke.
ment and enhance our national
energy security. Biodiesel pow
ered AFVs offer cost effective
means of compliance with the pro
visions of EPACT. For rural
states, such as Minnesota, bio
diesel offers additional opportuni
ties for rural economic develop
ment through the sale of agricul
tural commodities and the
construction of biodiesel produc
tion facilities.
Biodiesel is the generic term for
cleaner burning, ester-based, fuels
for compression ignition (diesel)
engines that are derived from
renewable organic oils. The prim
ary feedstocks for biodiesel in the
U.S. are vegetable oils. While the
biodiesel industry is relatively
new in the U.S., biodiesel has
been used in Europe on a commer
cial basis for several years. Soy
beans are the basis for a $l2 bil
lion industry in the U.S. which
includes substantial domestic as
well as foreign sales of soybeans
and soybean products. '
Yost presented the following
Patent Pandflfl
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Farmers Union Supports
Reformulated Gas Program
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The
National Farmers Union (NFU)
has become the first farm associa
tion to join with the American
Corn Growers Assocation
(ACGA), in supporting and
endorsing the reformulated gaso
line (RFC) program. This action
was approved at the recently held
NFU convention in Milwaukee.
According to NFU President
Leland Swenson, 'The national
delegates of Farmers Union saw
the many advantages that RFG
holds for agriculture and the coun
try. We are proud to join with the
ACGA in leading the way for agri
culture’s total endorsement of the
program.”
In making it part of its energy
and family farm section, the lan
guage reads:
a. Agriculture is one of the big
gest winners with the implementa
tion of the RFG program.
b. RFG is the major avenue for
increasing the demand for oxyge
nates. especially ethanol and
ETBE.
c. RFC is the impetus to spur on
the development and commer
cialization of ETBE. This could
result in a new market for almost
200 bushels of new com demand
per year.
d. Increased ethanol demand
translates into developing and
building more ethanol production
facilities. Most of these will be
built in rural areas creating new
jobs, expanding the local tax base,
and providing new markets for the
summary of specific recommen
dations; First, USDOE must con
firm that pure biodiesel is desig
nated as an alternative fuel. Then,
as part of a separate rulemaking,
USDOE should further designate
a 20 percent blend of biodiesel
with diesel fuel, known as 820, as
separate and distinct alternative
fuel. Second, USDOE must inter
pret its regulations to facilitate the
conversion of new and existing
diesel vehicles to biodiesel AFVs
to meet the acquisition require
ments of the regulations in such a
way that states will have the maxi
mum flexibility to utilize competi
tively priced biodiesel fuel blends,
such as 820. Third, USDOE
should allow states and alternative
fuel providers to include the
acquisition or conversion of
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e. Increased oxygenate demand
will decrease foreign imports of
oil and increase the demand for
domestic production. This could
mean lower energy cost for pro
duction agriculture.
f. The new demand for ethanol
or ETBE in the RFG program will
likely result in an increase in the
price of corn.
g. The advantages to agriculture
under RFG are as clear as the air
we breathe. New com utilization,
more ethanol production facilities,
development of ETBE and higher
commodity prices can all result
from the RFG program.
h. These advantages only exist
if the RFG program remains in
effect in its entirety. Any tamper
ing with the program or the oxyge
Bouton Earns
AFGC Award
LEXINGTON, Ky.—Dr. Joe
Bouton, best known for inventing
Alfagraze, has received an award
for his significant contributions
and service to forage-based
agriculture.
Bouton was presented the
AFGC Merit Award during the
annual American Forage and
Grassland Council awards ban
quet held hero in mid-March. The
award is presented annually to
individuals who have made
“superior contributions in some
phase of forage and grassland
'medium duty and heavy duty
AFVs in their fleets to count tow
ard the optional excess vehicle
acquisition credit program.
Yost gave assurance that this
kind of flexibility will not, in any
way, contradict the goals of
EPACT. Instead, these minor
changes to the proposed regula
tions will give greater flexibility
to states and alternative fuel pro
viders while at the same time
increasing farm income through
the use of domestically produced
renewable agricultural products.
These changes make sense
because they are beneficial to the
farmers who produce the feed
stocks for biodiesel, beneficial to
the states and alternative fuel sup
pliers who will be major consum
ers of biodiesel, and beneficial to
the nation as a whole, which will
have a cleaner environment and
greater energy security as a result
of the increased use of biodiesel.
All in all, biodiesel can and should
play a major part in meeting the
goals of EPACT.
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nates that make up the program
will result in the loss of everything
that agriculture has gained.
Therefore, the National Far
mers Union supports the RFC
program, both in Milwaukee and
the United States. In order to build
public confidence in the RFG, the
National Farmers Union urges
health effects testing on all oxyge
nates by the EPA.
“The ACGA is pleased to have
the nation’s largest progressive
farm association join with us in
support of the RFG program. We
will take this positive message to
all of agriculture and our elected
officials to enlist their approval of
this beneficial program,” stated
Gary Goldberg, president of the
ACGA.
agriculture and who have earned
recognition among their col
leagues for work and productivity
through research, teaching, exten
sion, production, or industrial
development”
Currently professor of crop and
soil services at the University of
Georgia, Bouton has worked
extensively in furthering the deve
lopment and use of “grazing”
alfalfas. A few years ago, this
dedicated research resulted in the
release of Alfagraze—the first
alfalfa variety bred for both hay
ing and grazing.
Bouton also devotes time to
breeding fescue for adaptation
outside “normal” fescue use areas.
This recently resulted in the
release of Georgia S, a tall fescue
adapted for use by livestock pro
ducers in the coastal plain region
of the southeastern U.S.
Bouton’s interest in agriculture
began during his childhood on a
cotton, wheat and soybean farm in
Mississippi. He continued his
training in agriculture at Missis
sippi State University where he
received his bachelor’s degree in
agronomy in 1972, and then
headed to the University of Flori
da where he earned a master’s
degree in horticulture in 1974 and
his doctorate in agronomy in
1977.
Bouton is involved in teaching
and research and serves as chair
man of the National Alfalfa Crop
Advisory Committee. He has been
designated a Fellow for both the
American Society of Agronomy
and the Crop Sciences Society of
America. Earlier this year, he was
chosen “Man of the Year" by
Progressive Farmer magazine