CS-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 25, 1998
HENSALL, Ontario, Canada
Farmland Industries Ind.
made history as it certified its
first international AG* 21 coop
erative. The Hensall District
Co-operative, Hensell, Ontario
Canada, is the program’s first
cooperative outside the United
States to be certified, making it
part of an elite group of
Farmland cooperatives.
Tom Sawyer, executive vice
president of The Fertilizer
Institute of Ontario, and H.D,
“Harry” Cleberg, Farmland
president and chief executive
officer, addressed guests at an
open house held at the coopera
tive’s Hensall facilities to honor
the achievement.
AG*2l is an innovative crop
production process developed by
Farmland Industries to raise the
agronomic, environmental, and
managerial standard for cooper
atives across North America.
The program is a partnership of
the local cooperative, their
farmer-members and Farmland
to provide enhanced services,
cutting-edge technology and an
emphasis on environmentally
sound management practices.
Its goals are to use the best crop
production techniques and the
latest technology to maximize
crop potential in an environmen
tally friendly manner.
“AG*2l’s comprehensive
process enables us to add value
to our traditional products and
services, while helping our pro
ducer-owners improve crop
yields and quality, increase eco
nomic returns, conserve soil and
water, and protect the environ
ment and human health,” said
Earl Wagner, Hensall District
Co-operative general manager.
To become a certified AG* 21
dealer, a Farmland cooperative
must undergo a stringent audit
ing process and complete an
extensive employee training
Names Member Of Year
HILTON. N.Y. Hie Ameri
can Highland Cattle Association
has named Roger Jestel 1997
“Member of the Year.”
Roger and Donna Jestel have
been breeding Highland cattle on
their upstate New York farm since
1982. They purchased their first
Highland cattle in Massachusetts
and have added to their Honey
Hill farm herd with purchases of
registered breeding stock from the
premier Highland breeders in the
Roger Jestel and Who‘s Hill MacLeod in upstate New
York.
Farmland Industries Certifies First International AG m 2l Cooperative
program, said Richard Sipe,
AG* 21 systems manager. ‘This
certification process usually
takes one to two years to com
plete, during which time the
cooperative is audited on it agro
nomic practices, environmental
safety, and marketing and
human resource efforts. The
Hensall cooperative was certi
fied in an inspiring nine
months,” he said.
Technology and extensive
training programs help the coop
erative’s producer-owners devel
op personalized Integrated Crop
Management (ICM) programs.
These programs incorporate
nutrient management plans,
pest management plans, and
other best management prac
tices (BPMs) to maximize effi
ciencies, optimize economic
returns, and enhance the envi
ronment. .The AG*2l ICM
record-keeping software can
help document crop field results
and field history by recording
detailed agronomic practices,
including the tracking of identi
ty-preserved crops, crop protec
tion practices, crop rotation, and
cost analysis.
“As the government gets
tougher on chemical and fertiliz
er application and manure man
agement practices, agriculture
is required to do a better job of
record keeping. The AG*2l
process helps producers main
tain better records and apply the
right products in the right
amounts at the right times,”
Wagner said.
The ICM programs provide
customers with total agronomic
planning, field-by-field history,
assistance with environmental
regulations and the opportunity
to use the most recent technolo
gy in precision agriculture, such
as global positioning systems
(GPS) field mapping.
“AG* 21 matches our field-to
Highland Assoc.
Northeast.
The rugged longhaired cattle
are perfect for their Hilton, N.Y.
larm. The Highlands spend the
winter outside preferring a brushy
windbreak to a bam.
Since both Donna and Roger
also work off the farm, they
needed a breed that could fend for
themselves.
Highlands calve easily. Only
two have been pulled on the farm.
Most cows go off and calve with
fork concept,” Wagner said. “The
people we are marketing our
products to want to know where
the products come from from
the exact field and producer
through to the processing plant.
Without record-keeping pro
grams in place, we wouldn’t be
able to fulfill this particular
market demand.”
A progressive and diversified
agribusiness that has provided
Pasto Museum Is Hands-On History
ROCKSPRING (Centre Co.)
How did we light our homes
to “keep out the night” before
electricity? How did we cool our
food? Visitors to Penn State’s Ag
Progress Days, August 18-20,
can tour the Pasto Agricultural
Museum and get a taste of what
life was like before gasoline
engines and electricity.
“The museum is like a hands
on history book,” said Jerome
Pasto, museum curator and
associate dean emeritus in Penn
State’s College of Agricultural
Sciences. “There’s a story behind
every item.”
The museum houses more
than 300 implements used for
farming and homemaking.
Items range from a 6,000-year
old clay sickle used for grain
harvesting, to a charcoal-heated
clothes iron, to a dog powered
treadmill used to churn butter
and wash clothes. “Everything is
operated by power from the
muscles of humans and ani
mals,” said Pasto.
Sections of the museum are
devoted to harvesting grain, cut
ting and handling hay, planting
and harvesting corn, plowing
and cultivating soil and caring
for animals. One display focuses
on ice harvesting, which provid-
out help.
Using high-tensile fencing, the
Jestels now rotationally graze
their herd. Moving the Highlands
every day to new pastures im
proves the fields, breaks the para
site cycle, puts weight on the cat
tle, and gives the Jestels a chance
to see the herd daily. Regular
handling also accustoms the cattle
to being around humans.
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its member-owners with quality
products for more than 60 years,
Hensall District Co-operative
serves 4,500 member-owners
from 10 branch locations.
The cooperative records sales
of more than $B9 million, and in
the past five years, it invested
more than $l7 million in build
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Book At Ag Progress Days
ed winter work for rural people.
Using horse-drawn ice plows,
checkerboards were scored on
frozen ponds, then cut in perfect
blocks.
“Ice harvesting was a huge
business at the turn of the cen
tury,” said Pasto. “Trainloads of
ice were shipped to Philadelphia
and New York City to keep food
cool in ice boxes. The horses
wore nooses while working. If a
horse fell in, people pulled the
noose tight, leaving air in its
lungs so it would float like a bal
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grab the rope and haul the ani
mal quickly to shore.”
Household displays include
devices for washing clothes,
from primitive wood plungers to
“modern” clothes washers with
lever-operated tubs and
wringers. A collection of irons
for pressing clothes includes flat
irons with heated inserts, some
that burn charcoal and have
chimneys and adjustable drafts,
and one that is gasoline powered
with a tiny carburetor.
Also on display is a hand
cranked ice cream freezer,
invented by Mary Johnson in
1834. “It’s one of three items in
the museum whose concept was
so great that it’s lasted over 100
years,” says Pasto. "Ibday’s ice
cream makers still work on the
same principle.”
The Pasto Agricultural
Museum is arranged in chroni
cal sequence to show technologi
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have been restored to working
order so visitors can turn the
cranks and pull the levers. The
museum will be open to the pub
lic during all three days of Ag
Progress Days.
To celebrate the 20th
anniversary of the museum,
everyone who has donated
antiques to the museum (over
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cessing facility that has the
capability of electronically
inspecting every edible bean as
many as seven times.
The cooperative’s innovative
processing capabilities and field
by-field record-keeping practices
allow its producers’ beans to be
marketed directly to Japan
something no other Ontario
cooperative offers.
100 living donors) has been
invited to the Ag Alumni Annual
Meeting and luncheon on
August 18 at Ag Progress Days.
If you can’t visit the museum,
you can order two new educa
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Dr. Pasto as he walks through
the museum. “Farming in the
Old Days: Small Grains”
reviews the production, harvest
ing and threshing of small
grains from 6000 B.C. to the
19305. “Farming in the Old
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