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John Martin, Don Gentzler, and Jacob Lapp of Lapp’s
Barn Equipment, Inc., Gap, Pa. accepted their Gold M.V.P.,
B.U.C.S. Top Sales Leader, and their Five Million Dollar
Winners’ Circle awards from Murray Thorndycraft, vice
president-sales and marketing of J-Star Industries.
Honors
CLEVELAND, Ohio John
Martin, Don Gentzler. and Jacob
Lapp of Lapp’s Bam Equipment.
Inc., Cap, Pa. accetped their Gold
M.V.P., B.U.C.S. Top Sales Lead
er, and their Five Million Dollar
Winners’ Circle awards from
Murray Thorndycraft, vice presi
dent-sales and marketing of J-Star
Industries, at a dealer meeting
here recently.
The elite MVP Award (Major
Volume Performer) recognizes
the company’s top dealers who
have achieved bronze, silver, or
gold levels of sales and perfor
mance objectives during 1994.
Kessler Represents
Pennfield Feeds
LANCASTER (Lancaster Co.)
Penn field Corporation, a Lan
caster-based dairy and livestock
feed manufacturer has announced
that Dean Kessler has been named
to represent Pennfield Feeds in the
Southern Lancaster County area.
Kessler, who started with Pcnn
field in 1991 as horse and special
ty feed sales and service represen
tative will continue in this capa
city as well as dairy feed sales.
Recognizes Wonsidler
ATLANTA, Ga. Charles
Wonsidler of CJ. Wonsidler Bro
thers, Quakertown, was recently
recognized for outstanding sales
performance in 1994 by Agco
Corporation, the parent company
of Agco®Allis.
As one of the Company’s top
performers in farm equipment
sales, Wonsidler was invited to at
tend Agco’s annual dealer confer
ence in Laguna Niguel, Calif. On
ly 250 of the over 2,600 Agco
dealers in North America were in
vited to join this elite group.
J-Star
Lapp’s
The prestigious Winners’ Circle
includes dealers from the United
States and Canada who have ex
ceeded cumulative purchase in
crements of $1 million. The Top
Sales Leaders Award recognizes
the lop sales leaders for J-Star’s
main product lines.
The presentation took place at
J-Star’s regional dealer meeting
held in Cleveland, Ohio at the
Clarion Hotel. The meeting gave
dealers an opportunity to hear
about new products, innovations
and programs which J-Star Indus
tries will be featuring for the bal
ance of 1995.
Agco Allis
Charles J. Wonsidler, left,
Agco Allis dealer, Quaker
town, receives award from
Robert Ratcliff, Agco chair
man and CEO.
Dean Kessler
Deere Publishing Offers
Farm Management Texts
John Deere Publishing has add
ed two new textbooks to its award
winning Farm Business Manage
ment series. Like qther texts in the
series, these books are highly il
lustrated, which helps break down
complex ideas into simple, easy
to-understand concepts.
“Managing Livestock Produc
tion” and “Marketing Ag Com
modities” are designed to intro
duce readers to new technologies,
services, and agricultural practices
that can make farm managers
more productive and profitable.
The company intends to market
these comprehensive textbooks to
farmers, secondary and trade
schools and libraries and book-
South
Genetics Adds Salesman
EL VERSON (Chester Co.)
South Mountain Swine Genetics
has announced the addition of Bri
an Beam to the sales staff.
Beam has a bachelor’s in ani
mal science with business option
from Penn State University. His
education had an emphasis on
swine production with courses in
genetics, live animal evaluation,
nutrition, and slaughter evalua
tion. His senior thesis was done on
the subject of the stress gene in
swine.
Beam was a member of the
Penn State Livestock Judging
Team. In 1993, at the Keystone In
ternational Livestock Exposition
Beam was chosen as the high indi
vidual in swine judging.
Beam has a wide range of ex
perience. He has been employed
by his brother on the family farm
in Chester County, doing crop
work on some 1,750 acres as v ell
as lending their 600-head hog fin
ishing facility. Beam has worked
at Hatfield Packers a hog pen tech-
Tobacco
Blue Mold
Is Here
John O. Yocum
Penn State
Research Station
Landisville
Blue mold was found recently
in a plant bed by Bob Anderson.
Lancaster County agent The bed
was not treated with Ridomil.
AH growers should use Ridomil
on areas that have not been trans
planted. Don’t apply Ridomil in
the transplanter water and apply
the full rate. You can either apply
two quarts before transplanting or
one quart before transplanting and
one quart at the last cultivation.
If a plant bed has blue mold, it
should be destroyed since the
spores are spread by air and will
infect any untreated tobacco. If
Ridomil was applied to the seed
bed at seeding, an additional ap
plication of '/> rate Ridomil (1.25
teaspoon) plus S level tablespoons
of ferbam should be applied after
70 days from the first application.
As soon as you are finished
with plant beds, destroy them.
If you find blue mold, contact
Bob Anderson at the county ex
tension office, 394-6851 or myself
at the Southeast Agriculture Re
search and Extension Center,
653-4728.
stores.
“Managing Livestock Produc
tion” offers a historical perspec
tive of the beef and dairy cattle,
sheep, and hog industries, as well
as informative advice on invest
ment strategies, marketing, cost
reduction techniques, and perfor
mance measures.
“Marketing Ag Commodities”
teaches readers how to take ad
vantage of new and emerging
markets in the United States and
around the world.
The John Deere Publishing
lineup now features 32 textbooks.
Most are available with slide sets,
transparencies, videotapes, and, in
some cases, computer software.
Mountain Swine
nician and a kill floor technician.
Since 1994, Beam has served as
an assistant coach for the Chester
County 4-H Livestock Judging
Team.
Deere Honored For Design,
Engineering,
MOLINE, 111. Capping 1994
as a highly successful manufactur
ing and marketing year, Deere &
Company was recognized in three
industrial competitions for its
quality product design, innovative
engineering, and effective sales
organization.
The company’s new 800 Series
tractor line earned the 1995 Indus
trie Forum (IF) Award for good
industrial design in a major inter
national competition held in Han
over, Germany. John Deere pro
ducts captured a record 11 of “The
Agricultural 50” outstanding in
novations in product and systems
technology for 1994. And theH.R.
Chally Group, an Ohio-based
sales research and executive con
sulting company, recognized
Deere & Company’s agricultural
equipment marketing group for its
“world-class sales excellence.”
In Germany, an international
jury selected the John Deere 8000
Series tractor line as one of the
three best-designed prooducts in
the transportation category at the
competition sponsored by Indus
trie Forum Design Hannover. This
is Deere’s first recognition by the
world-famous industrial design
center.
John Deere engineers captured
11 of the “AE SO” awards for in
novation in the 1994 sponsored by
Brininger Interns
At Farm Credit
LEWISBURG (Union Co.)
Ty Brininger, a graduate of Lewis
burg High School and student at
Penn State University, began em
ployment in May with Northeast
ern Farm Credit as a summer in
tern. He will receive his bache
lor’s in agricultural business
management in May 1996.
While at Farm Credit, Brininger
will assist the branch staff in dif
ferent phases of their credit and
appraisal services.
John Deere Publishing hat
added two new textbooks to
Its award*wlnnlng Farm
Business Management ser
ies. “Managing Livestock
Production" and “Marketing
Ag Commodities” are do*
signed to Introduce readeri
to new technologies, ser
vices, and agricultural prao
tlces that can make farm
managers more productlvi
and profitable.
Marketing
Resource magazine, a publication
of the American Society of Agri
cultural Engineers.
John Deere’s 70 Series four
wheel-drive tractors and the 7200
and 7400 row-crop tractors wett
among the products earning re
cognition, as were the company*!
new 820, 920, and 930 Mocoi
(mower-conditioners). The 7M
Air-Disk Drill and hydraulic hitqj
for the 750 No-Till Drill joined tM
company’s 90 Series com heal
and knife stalk rolls on the listjil
award-winning products as well
Among the systems and com?
ponents singled out for recoerii
tion were the John Deere electro
hydraulic depth-control system'
for secondary tillage tools and i
two-stage, hydraulic power-brake
valve, jointly developed with
Vickers, Inc.
Deere’s 3215 and 3235 Fairway
Turf Mowers and the Piranha
44-inch Rear-Discharge Mowet 1
were also recognized by the panel
Deere & Company’s Agricul
tural Equipment Division market
ing organization was one of 10
companies to receive a World-
Class Sales Excellence Award
from the HA. Chally Group. Day
ton, Ohio. The companies were re
cognized following a major year
long study to identify world-clad
sales excellence benchmarks.
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