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Sollenberger Welcomes Manager
CHAMBERSBURG
(Franklin Co.) - Bob Francis,
national sales manager for
Sollenberger Silos Corp., has
welcomed Robin Stewart as a
new sales representative for the
company. Stewart experience to
the job. In her new position, she
will be developing a new venture
for Sollenberger-Silo towers for
the wireless communications
industry.
She will be visiting with
township supervisors, zoning
boards, engineers, and tele
phone companies who have an
interest in towers for cell sites.
The concrete silo towers can
be constructed as tall as 300
feet, control rooms installed in
the lower portion of the struc
ture, and antennae mounted
and hidden at the top of the silo.
Clinton Martin is pictured with Charles Sukup, president
of Sukup Manufacturing Co.
Company Stages
Product, Service Meetings
SHEFFIELD, OHIO
Sukup dealer meeting attendees
learned about the latest develop
ments in the Sukup line of grain
handling and drying products in
order to improve their Sukup
product knowledge.
A service seminar was also
offered. Topic covered included
the installation of Sukup prod
ucts, particularly the Sukup
Fastir Stirring Machine, and
troubleshooting techniques.
Pa. Mushroom Growers Cut
Costs With Company’s Help
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.
More than 60 Pennsylvania
mushroom growers, clustered in
a 7.5 mile radius around
Nottingham, recently converted
from hand-formed boxes to
machined cartons with the help
of Inland Paperboard and
Packaging, Inc.
This changed shaved 8 per
Robin Stewart
Sukup equipment is sold
throughout the United States
and in more than 20 foreign
countries. Sukup Manufactur
ing Company has over 30 years
of experience in the grain han
dling industry. Sukup maintains
warehouses in Nebraska,
Illinois, Arkansas, Minnesota
and Ohio. The main manufac
turing facilities are located in
Sheffield, lowa and Jonesboro,
Ark.
cent to 12 percent from the
smaller grower’s unit packaging
costs, enabling them to compete
more effectively with larger
entities.
With input from mushroom
packers, Inland placed a box
machine and distribution center
in the middle of the Nottingham
region. Growers order boxes
Dekalb To Develop Grower,
Environment-Friendly Corn
DEKALB, 111. - DeKalb
Genetics Corporation (NYSE:
DKB-news) said it is moving for
ward in developing corn hybrids
with reduced phytate content.
Low-phytate corn has the
potential to be of great value to
swine and poultry producers in
geographic areas having large
concentrations of livestock such
as the southeastern United
States, the upper Midwest, and
the central and southern plains.
Dekalb is among the first
seed companies to license the
low-phytate trail from the
USDA. With development now
in process. Dekalb low-phytate
corn is expected to be ready for
planting within the next few
years and will be available in an
array of hybrids.
Pioneer Appoints Sales National
Public Relations Manager
DES MOINES, lowa-Jerry
Harrington has been appointed
sales national public relations
manager for Pioneer Hi-Bred
International, Inc. He will be
responsible for external sales
relations and communications
as well as sales force communi
cations.
Harrington was most recent
ly vice president, group supervi
sor within the public relations
group for Bader Rutter and
Associates, Brookfield, Wis., a
marketing communications
agency specializing in agricul
ture and business-to-business
clients.
An lowa native, Harrington
received a bachelor of special
studies degree from Cornell
College, Mt. Vernon, lowa, and a
Unverferth Adds Subsoiler To
KALIDA, OHIO-Unverferth
Manufacturing Company, Inc.
announces the addition of the
Ripper-Stripper™ strip-till sub
soiler to its line of tillage imple
ments. The Ripper-Stripper sub
soiler is ideal for preparing seed
bed for planting whether the
farmer is cutting through prior
year crop or cover crop residue.
The Ripper-Stripper imple
ment is designed to shatter
hardpan up to 18 inches deep,
allowing plant roots, soil mois
ture and nutrients to move
freely into the subsoil. Steep
sloped, special-alloy shanks are
fitted with triangular-shaped
wearbars for extended shank life
and enhanced soil-slicing action.
Narrow-profile 3/4-inch thick
daily—or even hourly—and
Inland delivers machine-formed
cartons the same day. “I was one
of the first growers to talk to
Inland about my specific needs,
“said Mike Basciani, owner of
Basciani Foods. “Their advances
contributed meaningfully to
increasing my bottom line.”
Inland’s use of a high-effi
ciency glue joint box, using 25
percent less paper than hand
fold boxes, completely offset the
cost of automated machinery.
Inland’s solution also allows for
“just-in-time delivery.” This is
especially important for delicate
products such as mushrooms.
This environmentally and
nutritionally valuable product
will complement Dekalb's port
folio of specific trait products,
which includes Bt corn,
Roundup Ready (R) corn, glufos
inate-resistant (GR(TM)) corn,
and high oil corn. Additional
traits targeted to the animal
feed industry, such as high
lysine soybeans, high-lysine
corn and high-tryptophan corn,
are expected to be available to
farmers in the next few years.
Phytate is a naturally occur
ring compound used by plants to
store phosphorus. But when
com is fed to monogastric (single
stomach) animals such as swine
and poultry, phytate can inhibit
the absorption of phosphorus by
the animals, resulting in a need
to use phosphorus supplements
or phytase enzymes as feed
master's degree in history from
the University of lowa, lowa
City, lowa. He also completed
course work toward a doctorate
in history from the University of
lowa. In addition, he has taught
courses in public relations at
Mount Mercy College, Cedar
Rapids, lowa.
Harrington has a wealth of
experience in agricultural com
munications resulting from a
career working at Bader Rutter;
Creswell, Munsell, Fultz &
Zirbel, Cedar Rapids, Iowa; and
Rumrill-Hoyt, Rochester, N.Y.
Agricultural clients Harrington
has worked with include
DowElanco, Pioneer, John
Deere,. DuPont Canada,
Klenzade and the National
Dairy Promotion and Research
Board
shanks minimize heaving and
with the raised-center shank
points break up the hardpan
with minimal soil disturbance.
The shear-bolt free, automatic
reset shanks trip rearward and
upward to make rocks and other
in-field obstacles a minimal con
cern.
Two offset, fluted coulter
blades, positioned behind each
shank, till and mix the soil,
helping create the raised
seedbed necessary for optimum
seed germination and vigorous,
early plant growth. Parallel-link
mounting keeps the coulters
operating at a level and consis
tent depth; angle and downpres
sure are easily adjusted to
match varying soil conditions.
Inland’s understanding of
mushroom packers’ needs
extends to services created espe
cially for the Nottingham grow
ers. When a packer’s vacuum
cooler, labeler, tape machine or
other mushroom equipment
breaks down at 5 a.m., repairs
cannot wait until 8 a.m.
Growers can page an Inland
technician 24 hours a day, seven
days a week—even if they are
not Inland customers.
Novel mushroom varieties,
calling for new packaging and
graphics, come to market every
day. Inland’s network of local
additives. Low-phytate corn
would reduce grower need for
these costly additives. More
than 50 percent of all U.S. corn
produced is fed to swine or poul
try.
Low-phytate corn also holds
the promise of reducing the
phospho'us concentrations of
swine and poultry wastes that
are currently applied to farm
land. When undigested phospho
rus passes through animals, it
can build up excessive levels in
heavily manured soils. Excess
phosphorus in soil has been
shown to reduce grain yields
and is sometimes a threat to
water quality. Phosphorus run
off is suspected to cause exces
sive algae blooms in some bodies
of water such as the Chesapeake
Bay.
Jerry Harrington
Product Line
Fifteen-inch wide Rolling
Harrow® baskets with scal
loped, angled blades follow the
coulters to mix and mulch the
soil and smooth the surface.
Optional heavy-duty, shear-bolt
protected row markers provide a
clearly visible mark in a variety
of soils, residue and terrain.
The Ripper-Stripper strip-till
subsoiler is available in four-row
with 38-inch spacing, or six-row
models with 30-inch or 38-inch
row spacings. Additional fea
tures include the heavy-duty 6-
inches x 6-inches welded frame
construction for added durabili
ty and stabilizer wheels with
new, 9.50 L x 15, six-ply tires
that provide enhanced depth
control and in-field stability.
partners enables speedy turn
around of art, printing plates,
and cutting dies. Growers can
have brand new package designs
in just two or three days—
instead of two or three weeks.
Previously, more than two
thirds of the Nottingham farm
ers couldn’t afford to print their
company names on generic
brown boxes. By amortizing
plate costs over each grower’s
packaging program, • Inland
made high-quality graphics
financially attainable for these
small customers. Eighty percent
of the farms now ship their prod
ucts in custom-printed boxes.