C4-Lancaatar Farming, Saturday, Junt 24, 1995
Feed Dealer Joins
White Oak Mills
ELIZABETHTOWN (Lancas
ter Co.) —White Oak Mills has
its newest dealer. Mike
Anderson, Schellsburg, services
Bedford, Blair, Somerset, and Ful
ton counties with a complete line
of feeds.
Anderson’s responsibilities
include taking phone orders and
delivering bagged feeds to area
customers from his warehouse
facility.
Having earned an associate
degree in swine confinement man
agement from Ellsworth Com
munity College, lowa, in 1986,
Anderson worked for White Oak
Mills from 1986 to 1989 as an
assistant manager and manager of
several swine production units.
For the past six years, he managed
a family-owned 120-sow farrow
to-feeder pig and crop farming
operation.
Preventive Maintenance
Saves Tire Repairs
NEW HOLLAND (Lancaster
Co.) Don’t let a leaky tractor
lire rob hours from your workday.
Take a preventive maintenance
approach by using a tire sealant to
slop air loss, protect against flat
tires, and reduce downtime.
Tires remain the number one
cause of downtime for farmers,
said Carmen Martin, product and
pricing analyst. New Holland
Parts and Service Operations.
However, a tire sealant can help
farmers save on their service re
pair bills plus, provide longer,
maintenance-free vehicle work
hours. Practicing preventive main
tenance with tire sealants costs lit
tle compared to the time and mon
ey it saves.
According to Martin, many
New Holland dealers, as standard
operating practice, install tire seal
ant in new equipment tires prior to
delivery, so the equipment is
ready to go when customers are.
It’s also a good idea for farmers or
dealers to install tire sealant as
part of a pre-season equipment
checkup.
“When a puncture of up to
ihrcc-sixteenihs of an inch in dia
meter occurs, the escaping air
forces the sealant directly to the
leak, making a solid, permanent
repair from the inside out How
ever, if the tire’s structure is des
troyed by a slice or large puncture,
the tire can not seal,” Martin said.
“Our sealants are guaranteed to
perform for the life of the tread,
always maintaining air pressure in
the lire.
“Use a sealant that conditions
the inner-liner to prevent dry rot
and cracking, which can lead to
chronic slow air loss and early tire
failure,” Martin said. “The sealant
helps the tire maintain a constant
recommended air pressure.”
Martin said a major rubber
company has verified the compati
bility of New Holland sealants
with inner-liner compounds. The
Mike Anderson
He serves as a member of the
Pennsylvania Farm Bureau and
the Bedford County Fair Board.
Using quality tire sealants,
such as those available from
New Holland, can help save
on service repair bills while
providing longer mainten
ance-free work hours.
special chemical formulation of
the New Holland sealant protects
the liner from degradation and
keeps it resilient. The sealant also
protects the tube in the same man
ner, helping to prevent tube rot.
Ingersoll-Rand Acquires Melroe
Company , Other Clark Units
WOODCLIFF LAKE,
N.J.—lngersoll-Rand Company
announced that it completed the
acquisition of Melroe Company,
as well as other business units
owned by Clark Equipment Com
pany, for $B6 per share, or approx
imately $1.5 billion.
Melroe, based in North Dakota,
manufactures a line of self
propelled spraying vehicles under
the Spray-Coupe brand name for
use in applying agricultural herbi
cides and pesticides. Melroe also
makes Bobcat skid-steer loaders,
which are multi-purpose utility
vehicles ideal for use in a variety
of excavation, earth moving, or
material handling applications.
DMI Takes Bold Step For Safety
GOODFELD, 111. DMI, Inc.
has taken a bold initiative by
adopting, as standard equipment
with no deduct option, warning
and taillights on all of its fall pull
type primary tillage products.
This product decision was in re
sponse to DMTs goal to improve
visibility of the implement during
transport.
In support of industry self-regu
lation, equipment standards have
been developed by ASAE, FEMA
(Farm Equipment Manufacturers’
Association), and EMI (Equip
ment Manufactures’ Institute).
DMI urges and recommends other
farm equipment manufacturers to
adopt these standards. By moving
forward with this initiative, DMI
makes health and safety a key cri
teria in its product development
process in addition to durability.
Asgrow
Ready
KALAMAZOO, Mich. Soy
bean producers have another op
tion in their weed-control pro
grams with the introduction of six
new Asgrow Roundup Ready™
soybean varieties. The introduc
tions come on the heels of the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency
approval in late May allowing
Roundup® herbicide to be spray
ed over Roundup Ready soybeans.
The six Asgrow Roundup
Ready varieties are positioned in
Group 111 through Group VI ma
turities, and are being produced
this year for planting in 1996. For
’96, Asgrow will have the widest
range of varieties available and
more than 80 percent of the supply
of Roundup Ready soybeans, ac
cording to Wayne Hoener, As
grow soybean product manager.
Roundup Ready soybeans con
tain a gene that allows Roundup
herbicide to be applied over the
top of soybean plants for broad
spectrum weed control.
Asgrow Roundup Ready varie
ties will be designated with the
prefix “AG” followed by a four
digit number ending in “01”, i.e.
Asgrown AG3OOI. This distin
guishes them from traditional As
grow varieties, which carry an
“A” before a four-digit number.
Asgrow will have hundreds of
Roundup Ready demonstration
plots planted in soybean produc
tion areas throughout the U.S. In
addition, trials will be planted at
all Asgrow Concept Farms, which
will host Technology Days'and
other events this summer to intro
duce Roundup Ready soybeans to
customers.
“Our research team began
crossing with Roundup Ready
The boards of directors of both
companies approved the acquisi
tion on April 9. With the acquisi
tion, Ingersoll-Rand also gains
Blaw-Knox pavers, Clark-Hurth
axles and transmissions, and Club
Car golf carts and light-utility
vehicles.
“The Melroe product lines
enjoy excellent reputations within
their market segments. Not only
are they complementary to
Ingersoll-Rand’s businesses, but
they are market leaders with
strong potential for growth ground
the world,” said James E. Perrella,
chairman, president, and chief
executive officer of Ingersoll-
Rand Company.
DMI, Inc. has adopted as
standard equipment with no
dedjet option, warning and
tail lights on all of Its fall pull
type primary products.
reliability, and performance.
These warning and tail lights
are designed to comply with
ASAE/ANSI Standard
5279.9-JUL93. When properly in
stalled, as explained in die acces
sory instrumentation manual,
owners will receive the following
Launches Roundup
Soybean Varieties
germ plasm in 1991,” said Alan
Walker, Ph.D. Asgrow director of
soybean research. “We’ve been
pulling the Roundup Ready gene
into our new soybean genetics and
the effort has paid off."
Roundup Ready soybeans offer
growers more weed-control op
tions by allowing use of Roundup
herbicide in a crop where it pre
viously could be used only in pre
cise spot sprays or in rope-wick
applications.
• AG3OOI. AG3OOI is an early
group ID Roundup Ready variety
that has very high yield potential
and excellent emergence. It is
adapted to conventional and no
till environments, with moderate
tolerance to Phytophthora root rot.
AG3OOI is an indeterminate plant
type with an open canopy. It has
average protein and oil contents.
• AG3501. AG3SOI is a mid
Group IQ Roundup Ready variety
with high yield potential and good
emergence scores. It offers excel
lent standability with moderate
plant height Disease resistance
characteristics of AG 3501 in
clude multi-race resistance tQ Phy
tophthora root rot with the Rps, k
gene, moderate tolerance to brown
stem rot and resistance to powdery
mildew. It is adapted to conven-
Kuhn Introduces
New Shredder Line
VERNON, N.Y.—A new line
of shredders has been released
from Kuhn Farm Machinery, Inc.,
Vernon, New York, and Kuhn
S.A., Saveme, France.
The new WMU shredder line is
ideal for topping pastures and
meadows, shredding of set-aside
land and scrub, and also for mow
ing parks and gardens.
The new WMU shredders are
extremely versatile and are avail
able in working widths from 7 feet
6 inches to 9 feet 11 inches.
Smaller units are also available
and are part of the “VK” and
“VKD” ranges.
The operation of the WMU
shredders projects the residue
behind the roller to develop a
mulch foundation that will protect
the ground from dryness.
The forged scoop hammer
knives are universal and can be
used for shredding grkss and light
wood. These knives ensure fine
shredding and even distribution of
irregular growth and scrub.
benefits;
• The location of the lights will
show approaching traffic the ap
proximate width and length of the
implement. (These lights are in
addition to reflectors and SMVs.)
• The amber warning lights,
which are visible frorik both the
front and the rear, will flash in
unison with the tractor’s turn sig
nals.
• A storage socket is provided
on the implement for storage of
the seven pin connector on the im
plement wiring harness to keep
(he electrical contacts clean.
• Implements that are designed
to pull other implements or wa
gons will be equipped with a har
ness including a rear mounted se
ven pin receptacle for the trailing
equipment’s light system.
lional and no-till environments.
AG3SOI is an indeterminate plant
type with an intermediate canopy
and average protein and oil con
tents.
• AG4401. A mid group IV
Roundup Ready variety, AG4401
offers high yield potential and
very good standabUity in a tall
plant type. It has a moderate emer
gence score. AG4401 is resistant
to Race 3 of soybean cyst nema
tode and moderately resistant to
Race 14. It also offers moderate
tolerance to Phytophthora root rot.
AG4401 is an indeterminate plant
type with intermediate canopy. In
research trials, it has shown
above-average protein content and
average oil content
» AG4701. AG4701 is a late
Group IV Roundup Ready variety
with high yield potential andjnod
erate standability in a tall plant
type. It has very good emergence
and is a good choice for double
cropping. AG4701 is resistant to
soybean cyst nematode (Races 3
and 14). It also offers moderate
tolerance to Phytpphthora root rot
and moderate tolerance to char
coal rot AG4701 is an indeter
minate plant type with a bushy
canopy and average protein and
oil contents.
A new line of shredders
has been released from Kuhn
Farm Machinery, Inc., Ver
non, New York, and Kuhn
S.A., Saverne, France.
The new WMU shredder
line is Ideal for topping pas
tures and meadows, shred
ding of set-aside land and
scrub, and also for mowing
parks and gardens.
The WMU shredders offer a
low profile design which makes it
easy to pass under low tree
branches. With the standard
mechanical or optional hydraulic
side shift shredding near tree
trunks or stumps is made easy.