ElO-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 5, 1999
BAGS Introduces
Ag Consultant
EPHRATA (Lancaster Co.) -
Brubaker Agronomic Consulting
Service, Inc. (BAGS) has intro
duced Steve Schneider as an
agronomic territory consultant
and certified nutrient manage
ment planner.
Schneider has an extensive
history working with farm crop
protection products, custom
application, soil sampling and
precision services, and is nutri
ent management certified in
Maryland. After receiving his
bachelors degree in fisheries and
wildlife biology from lowa State
University, he worked in the ag
industry with farm crop protec
tion products, and also
researched and operated a pri
vate commercial fish farm and
hatchery prior to his employ
ment with BAGS.
Schneider serves clients in
the Delmarva area, writing
Fisher & Thompson
Named One Of Top 10
ELK GROVE VILLAGE, 111.
Fisher & Thompson, Inc., Leo
la, has earned the distinction of
being one of Westfalia Dairy Sys
tems’ top 10 North American
dealers for 1998.
Fisher & Thompson owners are
Amos Fisher, Rick Thompson,
and Merle Ressler. The company
represents Westfalia’s complete
line of milking and cooling equip
ment as well as other equipment
and suppliers which support their
customers.
As a Westfalia Dairy Systems
“Diamond Achiever” for 1998,
Fisher & Thompson was not only
a dealer in good standing, but was
evaluated on their total sales vol
ume of new products and parts in
their respective trade areas.
According to Rob Kolb, com
munications manager for West
falia, “Fisher & Thompson has de
monstrated an outstanding com
mitment to Westfalia and based on
Round Balers
Built To Last
NEW HOLLAND (Lancaster
Co.) New Holland’s new “8
Series" Roll-Belt™ round balers
are engineered to produce better
bales season after season. The all
new Roll-Belt round baler line
features five sizes plus a silage
baler which consistently turn out
dense, uniform, square-shoulder
ed bales that stand up to weather
and transport
Strength and durability have
been built into each model. Larger
chain idler springs to maintain
proper tension, beefier bearings
for follower rolls and drive rolls,
heavy-duty cam-follower bearings
in wide pickups, stronger pickup
lift cranks, heavy-duty wheel hubs
and long-lasting, curved pickup
tines have been included in the
new line.
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nutrient management plans and
consulting on more than 40
crops while maintaining BAGS
independence of any product
sales.
their overall sales volume for the
year, is clearly among the top 10
dealers.”
In operation since 1983, Fisher
& Thompson serves dairy farmers
in a large geographic area that
roughly includes central and east
ern Pennsylvania, northern Mary
land, New Jersey, and Delaware.
The company has four warehouse
locations and 38 employees.
According to Thompson,
“We’re a very service-oriented
business with an incredibly di
verse customer base. Our valued
customers include everything
from electricity-free Amish farms
with a dozen or two cows to high
ly-computerized operations with
more then 1,000 cows.”
Thompson adds that their deal
ership’s success is based on
following a simple business mod
el: “Surround yourself with good
people and good things happen
we really have great employees.”
x 5-foot bales. New Holland has
introduced the new Model 678.
This round baler produces bales
with a soft core for easier feeding,
grinding and shredding, and
5-foot x 5-foot bales are more sta
ble on hillsides, hold their shape
better, and stay in place when us
ing a bale spear.
Other models in the “8 Series”
line include: Model 638 (4-foot x
4- bales), Model 648 (4-foot x
5- bales). Model 648 Silage
Special (4-foot x 5-foot silage
bales), Model 658 (4-foot x 6-foot
bales), and Model 688 (5-foot x
6- bales).
The Model 648 Silage Special
is available with the Bale-Slice™
system which makes heavier.
denser bales that are easy to break
apart and feed. In a recent Penn
JSjaje ynivprsity study, bales ( pro-
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Paparo to Manage New Bank Office
New Holland (Lancaster Co.)
- Vincent J. Paparo will manage
the New Holland office of
Northwest Savings Bank on
West Main Street.
Robert Wolgemuth, district
manager of Lancaster and York
counties for Northwest Savings
Bank, made the announcement.
As manager of the new office,
Paparo will be responsible for
mortgage, consumer, and small
business lending, development
of savings and checking relation
ships, customer and community
relations, administration of
bank policy and procedures,
supervision of staff, and all the
office’s operations.
Paparo brings more than 20
years of banking experience to
Northwest, most recently as
Hesston Introduces Round Balers
ATLANTIC, Ga. Hesston, a
leader in hay tool technology, has
developed three new variable
chamber round balers that produce
high-quality bales in sizes that
meet the ever-changing hay mar
ket demands. The new additions to
the already extensive round baler
line-up offered by Hesston, come
equipped with new features, in
creased crop capacities, and prov
en durability.
Building on the existing Hess
ton round baler line, the new 845,
855 and 856 series balers provide
the producer with an answer to
current market demands. The
model 845 produces a 4-foot x
Vintage Sales Hires Former Dunlap Employees
PARADISE (Lancaster Co.)
With the closing of the long
running Walter M. Dunlap and
Sons Inc. auction, based at the
Lancaster Stockyards, Vintage
Livestock Auction, based here, has
seen an increase in sales.
Vintage, which conducts sales
at the auction yard every Monday
and Tuesday, also has picked up
several of the workers from
Dunlap's.
According to Ken Hershey,
field representative at Vintage,
two full-time and two part-time
employees, with quite a few years
experience, were hired from Dun
lap's. The full-time workers
include fieldmen Butch Brown and
Leon Hoover. Part-time workers
hired by Vintage include Ivan Nolt
and Joe Reiff.
Leon Hoover worked back in
the 1960 s for Vintage and came to
Dunlap’s in 1972. Hoover started
at Vintage in 1961 and has been in
the auction business about 41
years.
Butch Brown worked at the
Lancaster Stockyards for 12 years.
Nolt worked at Dunlap's for about
20 years, and Joe Reiff worked at
Dunlap for about a dozen years.
Vintage Livestock Auction was
founded in 1953 and employs
20-25, about nine full-time,
including the children of owner L.
Robert Frame. Vintage Sales has
conducted auctions since the
19405, noted Frame. Frame took
duced by New Holland Bale-Slice
balers were 14 percent more dense
than unsliced bales. Bale-Slice
bales also increased Average Dai
ly Weight Gain in yearling heifers
by 23 percent
Endless belts are included with
all Silage specials and are covered
by New Holland’s Bonded Protec
tion program for three years or
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Vincent J. Paparo
manager of the Brownstown
office of the Bank of Lancaster
County. Paparo has been
5-foot bale of 1,000 pounds, the
855 a 5-foot x 5-foot bale of 1,610
pounds and the 856 produces a
5-foot x 6-foot bale of 2,320
pounds.
One of the many improvements
made to the 800 series balers are
wider, low-profile pickup as
semblies for minimal crop loss
and efficient feeding into the bale
chamber. Additional capacity im
provements to the pickup assemb
lies include centering augers and
stuffer fingers that move crop into
the bale throat. Gauge wheels on
each end of the pickup assemblies
also give the unit ground-hugging
capabilities to further protect
Vintage Livestock Auction, which conducts sales at the
auction yard every Monday and Tuesday, has picked up
several of the workers from Dunlap’s, and has seen an
increase In sales. The Frame family, from left, Glen, Denise,
Karen, Robert, and Paul.
over the operation in 1976.
Frame’s children work at the
auction, including Paul, Glen,
Karen, and Denise.
Denise Frame, secretary
treasurer of Vintage Livestock
Auction, said there are more than
10,000 customers served by Vin
tage, including those from Pen
nsylvania, Maryland, Virginia,
New York, and other states.
stronger and last longer than laced
belts.
The Model 688 is also available
with the Bale-Slice option for dry
hay and optional endless belts.
tiM•H" M ' U i v * f • n ‘
employed as vice president of
commercial sales and services
for Blue Ball National Bank and
has also worked within the real
estate, insurance, and mutual
fund industry, and served as a
management and financial con
sultant.
A graduate of Ephrata High
School, Paparo attended the
Pennsylvania School of Banking
and the Pennsylvania School of
Commercial Lending at
Bucknell University. He has also
taken various courses through
the American Institute of
Banking and Robert Morris
Associates.
Paparo served as paste presi
dent of the south central chapter
of Robert Morris Associates.
against crop loss and pickup dam
age. Pickup adjustment is ac
complished with a simple crank
handle or optional hydraulic lift,
while the easy-access chain drive
and slip clutch protection further
add to the convenience.
“Our improved pickup assemb
lies allow the balers to efficiendy
gather and feed crop into the
chamber, thus eliminating waste
that may occur,” said Ron Hess,
general marketing manager for
Hesston. “These new variable
chamber round balers produce
tightly packed dry bales that are
high in feed value and meet indus
try size requirements.”
The Monday sale includes heif
ers, bulls, finishing steers, and
butcher cows. Monday the auction
is open to receiving sheep and
goats.
On Tuesday, the auction con
ducts sales of cows, sheep, gouts,
and feeders. Sale reports on Vin
tage are a regular feature of Lan
caster Fanning.
L. Robert Frame, Vintage
Livestock Auction owner, said that
because of Dunlap’s going out of
business, the amount of cattle at
Vintage has increased.
Frame noted that, starting Wed
nesday, the auction began a private
hog sale.