C6*LancMter Fannins, Saturday, October 21, 1995
Grim Joins Keystone Staff
LANCASTER (Lancaster
Co.) —Gavin G. Grim recently
joined the staff of Keystone Farm
Credit as a ficjld representative. He
will work in the Tatamy office of
the Lehigh Valley branch. The
announcement was made by Ed
Buss, branch manager.
A native of Mertztown, Berks
County, Gavin was raised on a
grain and livestock farm where he
assisted with all aspects of the
operation. He was graduated from
Brandywine Heights High School
and attended Alvernia College
where he obtained his bachelor’s
degree in accounting. Most re
cently, Gavin worked as the parts
manager for Lehigh Ag
Equipment.
Case Elects
RACINE, Wis.—Case Corpo
ration recently elected Thomas N.
Urban, chairman and chief execu
tive officer of Pioneer Hi-Bred
International, Inc., and Jeffrey T.
Grade, chairman and chief execu
tive officer of Harnischfeger
Industries, Inc., to its board of
directors.
“We arc extremely pleased to
add directors the stature of Tom
Urban and Jeff Grade,” said Jean-
Mackey,
Head Genetics Research
DEKALB, 111.—Dekalb Gene
tics Corporation announced today
that Catherine Mackey and John
Pfund have both been promoted to
the position of vice president,
research, and will together lead
the company’s integrated seed
research organization.
Previously, Mackey was direc
tor of Dekalb’s Discovery
Research, the company’s biotech
nology program, and Pfund was
director, research, heading up
Dekalb’s conventional corn
breeding program in the 110 RM
and earlier maturities.
Under the new structure, Mack
ey and Pfund will share responsi
bility for Dekalb’s com breeding
stations worldwide. Mackey will
also continue to head biotechnolo
gy research and Pfund will also
Governor
ANNAPOLIS, Md. Gover
nor Parris N. Glendening request
ed a disaster designation for farm
ers in 12 Maryland counties who
have suffered an estimated 40 per
cent or more in crop losses this
summer because of drought and
heat in July and August
Crop losses were particularly
bad in soybeans and com for
grain. The counties Governor
Glendening has requested help for
are Wicomico, Worcester, Somer
set, Dorchester, Talbot Queen
Anne’s, Caroline, St. Mary’s,
Charles, Calvert Anne Arundel,
and Prince George’s.
Gavin G. Grim
Two To Directors
Pierre Rosso, Case president and
chief executive officer. “Tom and
Jeff’s backgrounds make them
ideal candidates for Case’s board
and I am confident both will be
assets to us as we seek to further
improve our performance and
prospects.”
Urban has served in executive
positions with Pioneer since 1974
and was appointed chairman and
chief executive officer of the $1.5
Pfund To
lead research for soybean, sorg
hum, alfalfa, and sunflower.
Pfund joined Dekalb in 1975 as
a corn breeder and has served in
positions of increasing responsi
bility. In 1989, he was named
associate research director and he
then became director of agronom
ic services in 1993. In 1994, he
was promoted to a director of
research. Pfund earned his docto
rate and a master of science degree
in plant breeding from the Univer
sity of Minnesota in Minneapolis.
Mackey joined the company as
a laboratory research scientist in
1982 and advanced through the
biotechnology research organiza
tion. She was named director of
Discovery Research in 1990.
Mackey received her doctorate in
molecular genetics from Cornell
University.
Requests Aid For Md, Farmers
me governor made his request D M^^ c S ‘^ E ™ erge t ncy f
in a letter forwarded to U.S. Secre- Board of the U.S. Department of
tary of Agriculture Dan Glickman prepared damage
estimates after Governor Glen
after receiving county-by-coumy damage
damage assessment reports from ° „ 8
the U.S. Department of Agricul- h.
hire’s Consolidated Farm Service . If counties are de
. signaled disaster areas, farmers in
*am asking Secretary Click- adjoining counties who suffered
man to declare portionsof Mary
land a disaster for the purpose of ° f
qualifying hundreds of hard-hit -
Maryland farmers for low-interest Most farm
emergency loans from the U.S. ere were hit with a drought m 993
Department of Agriculture.” said }« m a ***** (teckre-
Glendening. toon for farmcn 1,1 15
New Model To Spreader Line
BRODHEAD, Wis.—Knight
Manufacturing Corporation has
introduced the new 8014 Pro Twin
Slinger. This new side discharge
spreader is available as a single or
tandem axle unit.
The struck level capacity is
1,400 gallons or approximately
300 bushels heaped.
The patented twin auger design
features a 20 inch left auger that
moves material forward to 12
forged-steel discharge hammers.
Company
DEKALB, 111.—Dekalb Gene
tics Corporation said that it has
received notice of allowance from
the U.S. Patent and Trademark
Office for claims to com cells that
have been transformed via electro
poration technology.
Electroporation, a method of
introducing foreign genes into
com cells with an electrical pulse,
in an alternative to introducing
foreign genes with a gene gun.
“Electroporation is a viable
means of producing genetically
transformed, fertile corn plants,
and we expect these patent claims
to offer licensing opportunities,”
said Bruce P. Bickner, Dekalb’s
chairman and chief executive
billion seed company in 1984. He
is retiring from Pioneer and has
announced plans to teach at the
Harvard Business School. Urban,
who has both undergraduate and
MBA degrees from Harvard, also
serves as a director of Equitable of
lowa Companies and Sigma
Aldrich.
Grade has been chairman and
chief executive officer of Har
nischfegcr since 1993. He is also a
director of Coeur D’Alene Mines
Corporation, Crucible Materials
Corporation, and Measurex
Corporation,
With the addition of Urban and
Grade, the Case board has now
expanded to eight members.
Ag Secretary Alerts
HARRISBURG (Dauphin
Co.) —When buying firewood,
consumers should be careful to
make sure they don’t get stuck
with the short end of the stick,
according to Agriculture Secre
tary Charles C. Brosius.
“Firewood must be sold by the
cord, or some fraction thereof,”
Brosius said. “Consumers should
be aware that the amount of fire
wood they’re buying must con
form to a specific measurement
standard.”
This new side discharge
spreader Is available as a
single or tandem axle unit.
The struck level capacity Is
1,400 gallons or approxi
mately 300 bushels heaped.
Allowed Patent Claims
officer. “These claims are also sig
nificant because they broaden the
scope of a patent on the electropo
ration process to make transgenic
com that Dekalb received earlier
in the year.”
In January 1993, Dekalb was
awarded a U.S. patent
(#5,384,253) for a method of pro
ducing genetically transformed
corn with electroporation. The
two patent claims go hand in hand,
covering both the electroporation
method itself and the resulting
transformed cells that make up a
com plant.
Cargill To
Insect-Resistant Hybrids
MINNEAPOLIS.
Minn.—Cargill Hybrid Seeds and
Mycogen Plant Sciences have
entered into a distribution agree
ment through which Cargill deal
ers will distribute Mycogen’s
NaturcGard™ insect-resistant
hydrid seed com for planting in
1996.
On Aug. 8, Mycogen received
Environmental Protection Agency
approval to market com hybrids
genetically engineered with a Bt
gene to produce a protein that pro
tects them from both first and sec
ond brood European com borer.
Cargill will distribute the first of
To Firewood
A cord of firewood must equal
128 cubic feet For example, a
neatly stacked rack of firewood
measuring 4 feet high, 4 feet deep,
and 8 feet long would measure
128 cubic feet, thus constituting a
cord. One-half cord would mea
sure 64 cubic feet
Suppliers of firewood must pro
vide buyers with an invoice listing
the full name and address of the
supplier, along with the amount
paid.
Small bundles of firewood sold
at campgrounds or retail stores
Badger
Honors
KAUKAUNA,
Wis.—Show-Ease Badger, Inc.,
Lancaster, Pa. has been named to
the 1994 Badger Northland Presi
dent’s Club. The President’s Club
consists of the top 10 performing
dealers in North America.
The presentation was made by
Badger’s Vice President, Sales
and Marketing Stan West and
President and CEO Bob Hartsock
during a banquet held recently at
The slightly raised 18 inch right
auger moves material rearward
while keeping the left auger even
ly charged with material, reducing
pressure and overloading of
material at the front of the
machine.
The 8014 joins the 8018, 8024,
and 8030 Pro Twin models with
capacities ranging from 1,240 to
3,080 gallons. These units handle
the heaviest pen pack material
with ease.
Separately, Dekalb announced
it has recently been awarded
patent #5,445,961 for a method of
producing fertile corn plants from
microspores, which are immature
pollen grains. Microspores are an
important target for transforma
tion because they enable direct
selection of recessive traits and
reduce the number of subsequent
breeding steps to develop com
mercial com hybrids. “This patent
reflects another aspect of our
patent portfolio, which includes
some of the technologies—such as
tissue culture —that underlie gene
tic engineering,” Bickner said.
Distribute
these new hybrids, NG7059,
under the Mycogen label.
James Hopkins, vice president
and general manager of Mycogen
Plant Sciences, said that Cargill’s
strong distribution network in the
western com belt, where com bor
er damage costs farmers hundreds
of millions of dollars in yield los
ses each year, makes the distribu
tion arrangement attractive to
Mycogen.
‘This will enable us to bring
these new insect-resistant pro
ducts to more farmers sooner than
we could working alone,” Hopk
ins said.
Consumers
Regs
must be sold by the cubic foot
Invoices are not required for these
sales.
The department’s Bureau of
Ride and Measurement Standards
is responsible for the regulation of
quantity in firewood sales.
For more information about the
sale of firewood, or to register a
complaint against a supplier, con
tact the department’s Bureau of
Ride and Measurement Standards,
2301 North Cameron Street, Har
risburg. PA 17110-9408, (717)
787-9089.
Northland
Show Ease
Baileys Harbor Yacht Club in
Baileys Harbor, Wis. Accepting
the President’s Club Award were
John and Betty Kriedcr and John
and Carolyn Krieder of Show-
Ease.
Badger Northland’s President’s
Club honors this select group of
10 from a dealer organization of
more than 400 based upon their
sales volume of Badger products
during the previous year.