C6-Laneaster Farming, Saturday, October 14, 1995
Milker
Balance,
ELK GROVE VILLAGE.
111.—A new high performance,
easy handling milker designed
with excellent reach, spread, and
balance is available from Westfa
lia Systemat, Inc.
The Classic 300 Milker is
designed for today’s high produc
ing, high milk-flow-rate dairy
cows. Performance features
include improved milk-flow
throughput, vacuum stability and
reduced teat end impacts while
providing full 360° visibility. The
large diameter milk inlets are
properly placed for correct align
ment of the inflation on the teat
helping to reduce slips and
squawks.
The Classic 300 with 16 mm
milk outlet is available with or
without automatic shutoff. Auto
matic shutoff enables this high
tech milker to turn off the vacuum
to the cluster if there is a “kick-
Furman Names
NORTHUMBERLAND
(Northumberland Co.) —George
Martin has recently been named
sales manager of bid/exports for
Furman Foods, Inc. located in
Point Township. His new respon
sibilities encompass export sales
and government procurement
Martin began employement at
Furman Foods, Inc. in 1975 as a
seasonal employee, and since then
has held the position of label
inventory control manager until
this recent appointment.
Martin is a graduate of Selins
grover Area High School.
Mycogen, Ciba Seeds
BLOOMINGTON,
111.—Mycogen Corporation (Nas
daq: MYCO) and Ciba Seeds have
signed a letter of intent to expand
the relationship the two compa
nies entered into in 1993 to deve
lop insect-resistant hybrid seed
com products.
Under the expanded agreement,
Mycogen would grant Ciba Seeds
a license to develop and sell seed
com products under Mycogen’s
U.S. and foreign patents covering
genetically engineering plants to
produce Bacillus thuringensis (Bt)
proteins that give them built-in
resistance to insects. Mycogen
would receive royalties or access
for breeding purposes to corn
plants genetically engineered to
resist certain com pests.
Mycogen and Ciba also agreed
to collaborate closely on intellec
tual property issues to assert and
strengthen their proprietary posi
tion for seed com products with
Bt-based insect resistance.
On August 8, 1995, Mycogen
and Ciba each received U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency
Provides
Visibility
The Classic 300 Milker is
designed for today's high
producing, high milk-fiow
rate dairy cows. Performance
features Include improved
milk-flow througput, vacuum
stability and reduced teat
end impacts while providing
full 360° visibility,
off,” thus preventing debris from
being sucked into the milk line.
Sales Manager
George
Martin
collaboration, seed com with Bt- in lost yields. This protection also
based resistance to European com reduces or eliminates the need for
borer, a pest that costs U.S. far- conventional com borer insecti
mers as much as $1 billion a year cide applications.
Swine
Station Opens
LANCASTER (Lancaster
Co.) —Walter M. Dunlap & Sons,
Inc. has announced a new market
ing service for Pennsylvania pork
producers.
Beginning Nov. 1, Walter M.
Dunlap & Sons Inc. will be oper
ating a Lancaster Stockyards
swine receiving station every
Wednesday (except during the
week of Thanksgiving) so that
swine producers have a new swine
marketing opportunity. Producers,
therefore], can market animals on
Mondays through the auction or
DEKALB, 111. Dekalb Gene
tics Corporation recently honored
several outstanding dealers for
sales achievements.
James Landis of Milton, Pa.,
was honored as Outstanding Deal
er-of the Year within his sales dis
trict Vernon Umble of Christiana,
Pa. was recognized as Outstanding
New Dealer of the Year within his
sales district.
Also, several product champ
ions were announced for sales in
their districts. They are Earl Tin
dall of Lawrenceville, NJ., com
sales; Robert Stoltzfus of Cochran
ville. Pa., alfalfa sales; and Marvin
Kaylor, Annville, Pa., soybean
PRESCOTT, Wis.—Mycogen
Corporation and its Mycogen
Plant Sciences seed group
announced that it has signed a let
ter of intent for a major technolo
gy and development collaboration
with Pioneer Hi-Bred Internation
al Inc. to develop transgenic crops
with built-in insect resistance. The
transaction is subject to comple
tion of definitive agreements.
Pioneer is the world’s largest
seed company and maintains the
industry’s most extensive agricul
tural genetics and plant breeding
programs. Mycogen is a leader in
plant transformation and Bacillus
thuringiensis (Bt) gene technolo
gy for insect resistance in plants.
Both companies market seed for
com, soybean, sunflower, sorg
hum. and other major crops.
The collaboration will focus on
transforming com, soybean, sun
flowers, canola, sorghum, and
other crops with Bt genes that
cause the plants to produce natural
proteins that protect them against
insect damage. Bt-based insect
resistance reduces or eliminates
the need for chemical insecticides.
Under the agreement. Pioneer
will provide SSI mi!lion-$2l mil
lion in research and development
funding and $3O million to purch
ase three million shares of Myco
gen common stock. Pioneer will
also devote extensive research and
development staff and resources
to the joint product development
programs. Pioneer will receive
d Agreement
Expan
Receiving
Nov. 1
Wednesdays through the receiv
ing station.
Marlin Becker, having served
as White Oak Mills’ hog dispatch
er and marketing agent for 12
years, will be joining Walter M.
Dunlap & Sons Inc. as manager of
their hog division effective Oct.
16 to oversee this new Lancaster
Stockyards receiving station. A
life-long Lancaster County resi
dent, Marlin has more than 14
years of experience as a swine
producer, fieldman, and market
ing agent.
Dekalb
Companies To Develop
Insect-Resistant Crops
Honors Dealers
sales.
Several were also recently hon
ored as Winner’s Circle members.
They include Steve Adams of Ray
Adams Farms, Sunbury, Pa., for
the second time; George Coleman,
Elmer, N.J., for the 10th time;
Elmer Hertzler, Narvon, Pa., for
the second time; and Richard
Long, Pottstown, Pa.
The Outstanding Dealer of the
Year Award is ‘ ‘presented annual
ly at our district sales kickoff meet
ing,” said John Wysolmerski, dis
trict sales manager.
The Product Champion Award
is ‘‘presented annually to the deal
er with outstanding sales in each
non-exclusive rights to all Bt crop
protection technology and asso
ciated technologies owned or
developed by Mycogen during the
next 10 years.
Both companies will be able to
market their own products result
ing from the collaboration,
royalty-free, in North America.
Farmers Will Invest
In Weed Control
PHILADELPHIA—The
median cost of herbicides pur
chased by soybean growers to
raise a crop is between $23 and
S2S per acre.
Total Research Corporation
questioned more than 1,000 soy
bean farmers and determined that
midwestem soybean growers, in
general, pay more for weed con
trol than southern soybean grow
ers but the median difference was
only one to two dollars per acre.
The Authority Research Survey
of farmers showed that 48 percent
of 339 upper midwest farmers
paid $2l to $3O per acre for their
herbicides whereas SO percent of
273 lower midwest farmers paid
that much.
Thirty-eight percent of 403
southern farmers paid $2O less per
Keystone Farm Credit
Announces Scholarships
LANCASTER (Lancaster
Co.) —Keystone Farm Credit
announces the availability of two
$5OO scholarships toward the
higher education of students plan
ning careers in agriculture.
An applicant’s parcnt(s) or
guardian(s) must reside in one of
the IS counties that are serviced
by Keystone Farm Credit. The
counties include Berks, Bucks,
Carbon, Chester, Delaware, Dau
phin, Lancaster, Lebanon, Lehigh,
Monroe, Montgomery, Northamp
ton, Philadelphia, Pike and
Schuylkill.
Applicants must be high school
seniors planning to attend a four
Classified ads!
E. PAY OFF! a
product line for his district,” said
the sales manager. ‘ ‘lt recognizes a
superior effort to provide farmers
with service and a mix of hybrids
tailored to each customer’s indivi
dual needs and farming
practices.”
Adams has been a Dekalb dealer
for 21 years and is among approxi
mately 1,300 Winner’s Circle
members to be recognized nation
wide, along with Coleman, who
also has been a dealer for 21 years.
Hertzler has been a Dekalb dealer
for 17 years.
The award is based on service to
customers, sales volume, and
increases in seed orders.
Pioneer will pay a royalty to
Mycogen for jointly developed
products that it markets outside
North America. Mycogen will
have exclusive worldwide rights
to license jointly developed tech
nologies to third parties. No pro
prietary seed lines will be shared
by the companies.
acre for their herbicides. No appli
cation costs were included in the
cost analysis.
“Even though southern soybean
farmers generally paid less for
weed control, a large group of
southern soybean farmers had to
pay more than $3l per acre for
herbicides,” said Nick Phillips,
FMC venture manager who
authorized the Authority Research
Survey. “Of this group, 14-percent
had to pay over $35 per acre
because of one troublesome
weed—sicklepod. Since most her
bicides do not control this weed at
low rates, because it grows mulu
ple flushes during the growing
season and because it is highly
competitive with soybeans, far
mers have to expend extra effort
and money to control sicklepod.”
year college on a full-time oasis
with agriculture or agri-business
as the major emphasis of study.
Notification of the availability
of the two $5OO scholarships has
been sent to the guidance depart
ments of the secondary schools in
Keystone’s territory. Keystone
also intends to reach as many of
the private schools in the area as
possible. Scholarships arc not lim
ited to the public school system.
Anyone whose educational
institution was not contacted
should write or call Keystone
Farm Credit (Donna Dawson),
P.O. Box 687, Avondale, PA
19311-0687. (610) 268-3013.