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Hernley’s Stages
Grand Opening
ELIZABETHTOWN (Lancas
ter Co.) Last week Hcmley’s
Farm Equipment Lie. staged a
grand opening of its new 13,000
square foot show room, customer
service center, and maintenance
shop here.
About 450 customers attended
the grand opening, which included
a catered meal at noon.
The new building, finished Sept.
IS by Speedwell Construction,
Manheim, will allow Hemlcy’s to
provide “top-notch service and
products to all our customers,*'
said Duane Hemlcy, president
The building sits on five acres
along Rt 230, Elizabethtown. The
Last week Hernley’s Farm Equipment Inc. staged a grand
opening of its new 13,000 square foot show room, customer
service center, and maintenance shop. About 450 custom
ers attended the grand opening, which included a catered
meal at noon.
Bale Accumulator Improves
Performance, Lowers Costs
ATLANTA, Ga. Agco
Hesston introduces a bale accu
mulator that improves baling
performance and lowers operat
ing costs while increasing opera
tor convenience.
The Model 4720 bale accumu
lator, designed to work with the
mid-size Model 4755 baler,
allows the baler operator to col
lect one to five bales, 4 feet 11
inches to 8 feet long and unload
them anywhere, without ever
leaving the tractor cab. This
saves loading time, labor costs
and field travel, which leads to
less soil compaction due to less
trips over the field. It is also
strong enough to handle dry or
high moisture bales.
The 4720 is also designed to
be used as either a three-bale or
five-bale accumulator. In the
three-bale mode, the wings on
Baxter Farms Sells,
Services Agco Tractors
GEORGETOWN, Del. -
Baxter Farms, Inc. has been
serving Georgetown area farm
ers for 41 years with quality
equipment, extensive parts
availability, and experienced
equipment maintenance and
repair services.
The dealership offers the
same superior customer support
for articulated, four wheel-drive
AgcoStar® tractors available
new headquarters offers better vis
ibility and access to customers,
Hemley noted.
At the grand opening, company
officers from Agco Corp. in
Duluth, Oa. were on hand to pro
vide information about products
and services. Jim Seaver, Agco
executive vice president of sales,
spoke about Agoo's commitment
to customers.
The new shop, which employs
eight people, features up-tcvdate
equipment Hcmley’s sells Glean
er combines, Hess ton hay equip
ment and White and Agco-Allis
tractors. The company has been in
business since 1986.
the side cart are folded up and
the screen on the control console
is programmed to show the side
carts as being full when only one
bale is shifted to each side. This
allows the accumulator to be
used in fields with narrow
windrow spacing and to unload
bales without placing them on
adjacent windrows.
In the five-bale mode, two
bales can be placed on each side
cart, while a fifth bale is placed
on the center cart. In either
mode, each side cart can be inde
pendently unloaded, or both
carts can be unloaded at the
same time.
To unload all bales the opera
tor unloads both side carts,
shifts the center bale to either
side, and unloads that side cart
again.
with 350 and 425 horsepower
high torque diesel engines.
"This new product line has
the features and accessories
that meet the needs of our cus
tomers," said Jimmy Baxter, co
owner. "Adding this product line
is also in keeping with our goal
of serving as a one-stop resource
for agricultural equipment and
maintaining overall customer
satisfaction."
Lehr Retires After Almost 40
Years
Ray Lehr
LANCASTER (Lancaster Co.)
Ray Lehr has seen tremen
dous changes in the livestock
feed industry in nearly 40 years.
He retires in December as senior
vice president of the Ag Products
Division of Pennfield Corporation.
Lehr has seen sales of dairy
feed tonnage increase five-fold
since 1982, and the emergence
of Pennfield as one of the lead
ing dairy feed suppliers in the
Northeast.
In 1982, Lehr, a Penn State
animal science graduate,
returned to Pennsylvania to join
Lancaster-based Pennfield
Corporation as vice president,
feed marketing after holding a
variety of positions with Central
Soya in Fort Wayne, Ind.
Pennfield Corporation had been
formed only 11 years earlier
from the merger of D.E. Horn &
Company and Miller &
Bushong, two family-held feed
businesses with roots going back
to the turn of the century. Under
Lehr’s leadership, Pennfield
continued to grow through the
acquisition of other, regional feed
mills and manufacturers.
“The greatest changes in the
dairy industry over the past 30
years are the result of technolo
gy,” Lehr said, citing the advent
of computerization - now
applied to everything from the
balancing of rations to the man
ufacturing of feed. “It still is
amazing to me to see how every
thing from formulation to ingre
dient mixing to loading is han
dled by computer at our Mount
Joy feed mill.
“One of the technological
innovations at Pennfield that
I’m proud of was simply adding
two-way radios to our trucks.
This allowed us to offer round
the-clock, 24-hour-a-day feed
deliveries and really made our
customers happy.”
Lehr points out the “astound-
Kuhn Introduces Powertiller
VERNON, N.Y. A new line
of Powertiller, the EL 32, has
been added to the current
Powertiller lines from Kuhn
Farm Machinery, Inc., Vernon,
New York USA, and Kuhn S.A.,
Saveme, France.
The Kuhn EL 32 Powertiller
is an entirely new, economically
priced, 30 hp tiller line express
ly designed to meet the needs of
farmers and growers with small
AgcoStar is a well-recognized
brand with a reputation for
quality and reliability, and cus
tomers and friends throughout
the area are invited to stop by
for a first hand look at this
In Feed Industry
ing increases in milk produc
tion” during his career, noting as
he has watched dairy herd aver
ages almost double from 16,000
to 30,000 pounds and more.
“Feed conversion rates for poul
try and hogs have also been cut
in half.”
Another major trend in the
livestock industry, Lehr notes, is
the contracting and integration
of poultry and hog production in
the United States. Eventually,
Lehr foresees the dairy industry
following a similar path for more
efficiency and price stability.
“The trend in consolidation of
feed manufacturers will contin
ue too,” Lehr said. “Following
the lead of banks, auto manufac
turers, and other industries,
there will be fewer large nation
al manufacturers and fewer
regional companies, too.” Those
regional companies which
remain strong will also do so by
consolidating and acquiring
other smaller concerns, Lehr
predicts, while pointing out this
is how Pennfield continues to
grow and prosper.
Lehr is turning over the reins
and (and long hours) as
Pennfield’s senior vice presi
dent, Ag Products Division to his
second-in-command, Robert J.
“Bob” Buehler. Buehler joined
Pennfield in 1996 after having
worked for Purina Mills and
Southern States Cooperative.
He is an animal science gradu
ate of S.U.N.Y. at Cobleskill and
Cornell University and has a
master’s degree in animal nutri
tion from Virginia Tech.
Robert J. “Bob” Buehler
Butler Joins
Pennfield Feeds
Matthew T. Butler has joined
Pennfield Corporation’s Ag
Products Division as manager of
joint ventures/emerging mar
kets, a newly created position.
Butler will be responsible for
developing and managing joint
ventures with independent live-
and compact tractors. Three
sizes of tillers are available of 42
inches, 50 inches and 60 inches.
These tillers are designed to be
easily offset from 14 to - 17 inch
es. They also feature automatic
chain tensioning and easily
replaceable tines.
Kuhn offers 39 Powertiller
models with widths from 3 feet
to 13 feet and horsepower
ranges from 30 to 200 horsepow
er.
equipment.
The dealership will stock
replacement parts for present
owners of AgcoStar products,
and maintain a parts inventory
for new equipment purchasers.
Matthew T. Butler
stock feed manufacturers and
retailers primarily in the
Virginia and North Carolina
market areas.
A 1989 graduate of Virginia
Polytechnic Institute and State
University with a degree in ani
mal science business and nutri
tion, Butler previously served as
regional sales manager for
Diamond V Mills and as district
sales manager for Agrisorbants
Product Group after employ
ment with Southern States
Cooperative and Coley Embry
ological Sciences.
He is a director of the
Virginia State Feed and Grain
Association and past chairman
of the animal welfare committee
of the American Feed Industry
Association.
New Team Member
Pennfield Corporation has
announced the addition of
Stacey Sands to their feed mar
keting sales team.
Sands was graduated from
Penn State University with a
bachelor’s degree in dairy and
animal science, management/
production. She will handle
dairy feed sales for Pennfield in
the Tunkhannock, Montrose,
area.
Stacey Sands
The Kuhn EL 32 Powertiller
is an entirely new, economi
cally priced, 30 hp tiller line
expressly designed to meet
the needs of farmers and
growers with small and
compact tractors. .