CfrlancMtw Farming, Saturday, September 23, 1995 Messick Announces New Employees ELIZABETHTOWN (Lancas ter Co.) —Messick Farm Equip ment welcomes Nelson Homing and Mike Shotzberger to its grow ing team of qualified employees. Homing joins the parts depart ment with more than 11 years experience in the farm equipment industry. He has been parts mana capacity, Trapp will manage the locating and inspecting of ABS sired cattle for tour and photo opportunities, while managing the four-person ABS Progeny Promo tions Team. Trapp is a 1993 graduate of the University of Minnesota with a bachelor of science degree in applied economics, with a market ing emphasis. Trapp has been extensively involved in the dairy Effective August 1, Trapp has industry through collegiate judg- Mlke Shotzberger, left and Nelson Horning have Joined assumed the responsibilities of teams, dairy dubs and the MessiCk Farm Equipment. overseeing all dairy photography agricultural fraternity. Alpha , JL. _ • and video needs and functions, as Gamma Rho. Trapp also served as Moinnl in H 0/1 St / MSIIW weu as managing a rapidly grow- a member of the Holstein Founda- AAVJtllll AU iiCUU MSUII y ing and globally renown ABS don’s first Young Dairy Leaders , A Ik M /» A daughter tour program. In this institute. Eqmpment Manufacturer Company To lntroduce Precision Farming System ELK GROVE VILLAGE. 111.—Dirk Hejnal has been elected president of Westfalia Systemat, Inc., a manufacturer of high tech dairy equipment and accessories. Hejnal had previously been the company’s national sales manager. Announcemet of the appoint ment was made by Ludger Scho macker, director of worldwide marketing, Westfalia Separator AG, Westfalia Systemat’s parent company. According to Scho macker, Hejnal will be in charge of the division’s day-to-day opera tions and will oversee all admini strative activities. In addition, he will direct the strategic planmhg and market development for the company’s new computer-based product lines. Hejnal joined Westfalia Syste mat in 1992, serving as assistant to the general manager, and was named national sales manager in 1993. Prior to joining Westfalia Systemat, he worked from 1986-1992 for Westfalia Separa tor AG as an intern, and later as a sales office coordinator and as an assistant manager at Westfalia Md. ANNAPOLIS. Md.—Maryland Secretary of Agriculture Lewis R. Riley has announced that informa tion about the Maryland Depart ment of Agriculture and its many programs to serve farmers and consumers alike can now be found on the internet. “I am pleased that the Maryland Department of Agriculture now has another outlet to make contact with our customers—the citizens ger at ABC Groff, Inc. for the past eight years. Shotzberger joins Messick’s sales force with more than 30 years experience in the farm equipment industry. His latest job was sales manager for ABC Groff, Inc. of New Holland. Dlrk Hejnal Separator’s Eastern Germany branch. Hejnal holds a bachelor of busi ness administration degree from the University of Muenster- Germany business school. Dept. Of Ag On Internet of Maryland. Our goal is to put material on the internet to inform people about our services so they can receive better help from us when they need it. In the future, I can see us putting such items as farmers’ market locations and the schedules for fairs and shows on the internet as well as news items of interest to the agricultural com munity,” Riley said. Maryland Department of Agri Heritage WYOMISSING (Berks Co.) —Celebrating out heritage will be the goal of the annual Her itage Festival on Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 7-8 from 11 a.m. to S p.m. at the Berks County Heritage Center. There are many exciting events planned for this cultural weekend sponsored by the Berks County Parks and Recreations Depart ment Saturday’s highlights include an antique auto display, an antique farm equipment show, demonstra tions and sales by the Heartland Guild of Craftsmen, arts and crafts and activities for the children, as well as a Pennsylvania German Farm and Home Crafts demon stration. There will also be special talks and walks on the Deppen Cemet ery, the Herb Garden, the Red Bridge, the Lenni Lenape Indians, and the Union Canal. There will be three Canal His tory Time Traveler Walks to the lock on Saturday at 10 a.m., 1 p.m., and 4 p.m. Please call to register. ABS Promotes Trapp To Manager DEFOREST. Wis.—AßS Global, Inc., recently announced the promotion of Paul Trapp, Jr. to the position of manager, progeny promotions. Trapp has been a member of the ABS Communication Services team since January 1994, previ ously in the capacity of West Coast tour and photography specialist. ATLANTA, Ga. Agco’s purchase of MF worldwide accel erated their entry into the high tech precision-farming revolution, which was triggered eight years ago when Massey Ferguson intro duced ns yield monitoring system on high performance combines in Europe. This new system provid ed farmers with instant measure ment of crop yields across fields as they were being harvested. Then, in 1992, MF® introduced combines with optional yield me ters operating in sync with global positioning system (GPS) equip ment, making it possible to map yields in a field while recording the position of the combine in the field. The positioning and yield data are recorded simultaneously by an on-board computer and then transferred by a memory card to the farm computer. Yield maps may then be printed that show how crop performance varies culture information is currently found on SAILOR, Maryland’s Online Information Network and the Maryland State Government Page on the World Wide Web. •SAILOR Address —http:// sailor.lib.md.us •MD State Gov’t. Page Address http://www. maryland.umd.edu/mdgovt.html “The general information about the department that we now have Celebration Oct. 7-8 The day’s musical entertain ment will include the Full Circle Music Society from noon to 1:30 p.m„ Sonny Miller and the Happy Valley Boys from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., joined by the Country Western Dancers of Reading, with a chance for everyone to try line dancing from 3 p.m. to S p.m., plus authen tic canal, coal mining, and Penn sylvania German Folk songs by Ernest Kniss and Joe Shidisky. Saturday will also feature many activities for children, including old time children’s games, cider, balloons, pumpkin decorating, face painting, coloring, and pony and wagon rides. In addition, story tellers Marion Gehman and Karen Terri Ludwig will spin their tales for the kids. The activities will continue full force on Sunday, where the fea tured activity is a full size and miniature Carriage and Wagon show. The antique farm equip ment show, children’s activities, home craft demonstrations, and Heartland Guild demonstrations and Arts and Crafts sales will be within an individual field and from field to field. Now, following the successful introduction of its precision farm ing system in Europe, Agco is pre paring to introduce yield-mapping combines in North America. Yield mapping is achieved by using global positioning system navigation satellitesdeveloped by the U.S. government for military use. There are 24 satellites at a distance of 11,000 miles from the Earth and they can be used to give precise locations anywhere on the globe. For non-military use, an error is introduced in the signal to limit lo cation accuracy. Agco uses a dif ferential GPS system with two re ceivers, one stationary and one on the combine, to achieve location accuracy withing a combine’s length. “Users frequently achieve ac curacy of 99.5 percent with the on the internet is simply the first installment. There will be more to come,” said Riley. For more information on the Maryland Department of Agricul ture internet sites, contact Harold Kanarek, Public Information Office, Maryland Department of Agriculture, 50 Harry S. Truman Parkway. Annapolis, MD 21401, (410) 841-5882; e-mail mdahq @annap.infi.net. continued, gtlso. _ In addition, there will be demonstrations of plowing and log skidding, a pleasure drive along the towpath, driving demon strations, a horse pulling exhibi tion, family games, the raffle drawing for the Davidheiser Log House Fund Raiser, and the awards presentation. The musical entertainment for Sunday includes The Outlaws from noon to 2 p.m., Ken Gehret Bluegrass from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., and the authentic canal, coal min ing, and Pennsylvania German Folk songs. The Heartland Guild of Crafts men has donated valuable works of art for our raffle to raise funds to restore the Davidheiser Log House. Tickets will be available at the Festival and the winners will be drawn on Sunday, Oct. 8 at 4 p.m. The Heritage Center is located on Red Bridge Road off Route 183, 1 mile north of the Reading Airport Call (610) 374-8839 for more information. Paul Trapp, Jr. I Global positioning equip ment on the Massey Fergu son combine picks up sig nals from navigation satel lites for highly accurate position fixes. This informa tion Is transferred with simul taneous measurements from the MF yield meter Into the combine's computer and la ter processed into a yield map. Agco grain yield monitoring sys tem,” said Dexter Schaible, direc tor of Agco product development in North America. “Yields vary enormously across a field. Highest yielding areas of a field are often double the lowest yielding areas of that same field. A three to one ratio is not uncommon. “A yield map is a real eye-open er for a farmer and shows the land and crop performance as it has never been seen before,” said Schaible. “The yield map allows a farmer to identify a problem area of the field. The farmer can then go back to that site and determine if the problem can be economical ly solved. Despite similar soil types over a farm, farmers are amazed at the tremendous yield variation within fields that are of ten not visible to the naked eye.”
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