M-lancastar Farming, Saturday, May 20. 2000
Kimmel Joins Corporate
Office As Senior V.P.
LOUISVILLE, Ky.—Phil
Kimmel has been named senior
vice president business develop
ment for Farm Credit Services, a
$5 billion financial services co
operative headquartered in
Louisville, Ky.
He will lead a new division
which includes the finance, mar
keting, agribusiness, and leasing
functions. This team will work
together to pursue growth op
portunities in all market seg
ments taking advantage of
improved pricing and capital
positions.
Kimmel has more than 25
years experience in Farm Credit,
including serving the last eight
year as president of Keystone
Farm Credit, a $350 million as
sociation serving the southeast
ern part of Pennsylvania. He
also worked for nine years at the
Louisville office.
Forage Harvester Available
With Kernel Processor
BOISBRIAND, Quebec,
Canada Make your forage
work harder for your dairy and
beef herds with a harvester that
cracks the kernels while harvest
ing.
Dion Machineries has an
nounced the release of their
latest forage harvester, the Dion
1224Xc. This latest harvester is
just one example of the high
quality products offered by the
short liner.
The Canadian based manu
facturer has been producing
high quality forage equipment
since 1920. The Dion 1224Xc is
the latest harvester to impact
the market. The unit is available
with the “Corn Cracker” kernel
processor which Dion says re
search has shown that processed
corn silage increases milk pro
duction between 2 to 3 pounds
per day. Other research has
shown increased production of
up to 6 pounds per day. Rate of
gain for beef herds can also be
increased with processed corn
kernels.
The forage harvester has a
straight through design which
improves harvesting capacity
while slashing energy consump
tion. All crop entering the har
vester is cut, processed, and
blown in a direct line. The unit
has an intake width of 24 inches,
Rovendale Ag And Barn
Equipment Honored
BRODHEAD, Wis.—Jerry
Smith and Steve Pesik, Knight
Manufacturing Corp., awarded
a Dealer Sales Plaque for out
standing sales efforts in 1999 to
Rovendale Ag and Barn Equip-
I SUPPORT
Phil Kimmel
He is a graduate of Penn State
with a bachelor’s degree in agri
cultural economics and rural so
ciology.
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Dion 1224Xc harvester is
available with the “Corn
Cracker” kernel processor.
Dion says research has
shown that processed corn
silage increases milk pro
duction between 2 to 3
pounds per day.
which is the same width carried
right through the 12-knife cutter
head and four-paddle blower.
Dion offers two model harves
ters. The first comes as a 150-
300 hp model with a maximum
volume capacity of 25,469 cubic
feet per hour at a 3 /a-inch cut,
making it the largest capacity
pull type harvester on the
market. The second comes as a
90-150 hp model with a maxi
mum volume capacity of 20,732
cubic feet per hour at a 3 /s-inch
cut. Both units may be equipped
with an 84-inch wide windrow
attachment and your choice of a
two- or three-row corn attach
ment.
ment of Watsontown, Pa.
This award was presented
during the recent Knight sales
and service meeting in Cham
bersburg, Pa.
Knight, with manufacturing
facilities in Brodhead and Gree
ley, Colo., is a leading manufac
turer of 3000 Series Reel Auggie
TMR mixers, 4000 Series Botec
TMR mixers, 8000 Series Pro
Twin Slinger side-discharge
spreaders, and 1000 and 1100
Series box spreaders for both ag
ricultural and commercial/in
dustrial use.
Dealer Among First To Offer
New Self-Propelled Field Sprayer
NEW HOLLAND (Lancaster
Co.) - Messick Farm Equip
ment, Inc. Elizabethtown, is
among the first dealerships in
North America tc offer a new
product for cash grain produc
ers, New Holland’s SFSSO self
propelled field sprayer.
The new SFSSO self-propelled
field sprayer is designed and
built by Ag-Chem Equipment
Co., Inc. It is marketed through
New Holland’s global distribu
tion network as part of a joint
venture agreement between the
two companies, and is the first
product offering of the joint ven
ture.
The SFSSO sprayer is de
signed for custom applicators
and large farming operators.
“With the introduction of
new plant varieties, spraying is
now one of the most critical op
erations on the farm, alongside
seeding and harvesting,” said
New Holland product market
ing manager Greg Emmanuel.
“Some producers cover their
Agreement Reached For Required
RACINE, Wis.—CNH Global
N.V. announced that an agree
ment has been reached for the
sale of its partnership interest in
Hay and Forage Industries
(HFI) to AGCO Corporation,
subject to approval of the U.S.
Department of Justice.
The sale was agreed to under
terms set by the Department of
Justice for approval of the busi
ness merger of Case Corpora
tion and New Holland to form
CNH in November 1999. It will
give AGCO sole ownership of
HFI. Case IH and AGCO have
been joint venture partners in
HFI since 1991.
“We have taken actions to
ensure an uninterrupted supply
of equipment and parts through
our dealer network,” said Jim
Irwin, vice president of the Case
IH North American agricultural
business.
Under the agreement, Case
IH-branded hay and forage
products will be supplied
through the HFI plant to the
Case IH distribution network
Corn Checkoff Pays Off
Plastics Plant
BLAIR, Neb.
checkoff-funded research yields
results for farmers if you have a
vision, work with industry, and
set priorities,” said Lee Klein,
National Corn Growers Associa
tion (NCGA) president-elect
and a farmer from Battle Creek,
Neb.
Klein has proof. Today, he
and other NCGA leaders partic
ipated in the groundbreaking
ceremony at Blair, Neb., where
Cargill Dow is building the first
world-scale manufacturing fa
cility to make plastics and natu
ral-synthetic fibers from corn.
“Cargill Dow’s action culmi
nates research and market de
velopment on polylactic acid
(PLA), and NCGA members
and all corn growers who pay
the checkoff can take pride that
their dollars funded the research
that has led to this new facility,”
Klein said.
Expected to be on-line by late
2001, the new facility will use
40,000 bushels of corn per day
for an annual use of 14 million
New Holland’s SFSSO
self-propelled field sprayer
is designed for custom ap
plicators and large farming
operators. The SFSSO’s
rugged “C”-channel frame
flexes to maintain wheel
to-ground contact in ail
ground conditions, espe
cially when working on
uneven terrain.
fields as many as six times
during the season, so depend
able, cost-effective spraying
equipment is a necessity for effi
cient operation.”
The SFsso’s rugged “C”-
Case IH Divestiture
until March 2001. Case IH deal
ers will also have a steady
supply of parts for Case IH
products produced at the HFI
plant through a 10-year renew
able agreement.
A separate Case IH line of hay
and forage products is in devel
opment to replace the HFI line.
The new line will be available in
the fourth quarter of 2001, en
suring an uninterrupted product
supply.
“Our dealers and hay and
forage customers can rely on
Case IH to provide superior
products and services, now and
in the future,” said Irwin.
“These actions demonstrate our
commitment to the hay and
forage industry.”
Full terms of the agreement
were not disclosed.
CNH is successfully working
toward complying with all regu
latory divestiture requirements
in North America and Europe.
The company recently reached
an agreement with the A.R.G.O.
Group in Italy for the sale of the
With
bushels. The plant will turn com
into polymers, small chips or
pellets of plastic-like material
that manufacturers will then
process into fabrics for clothing
and plastics for cups, food con
tainers, packaging, and home
and office furnishings such as
carpets. Cargill Dow empha
sized that this is the first time a
renewable resource, corn,
“stands alone on price and per
formance.”
“Corn
Klein explained how the
NCGA worked with Cargill
Dow. “Since 1994, corn growers
at the national and state-level
organizations have made PLA
applications research a top pri
ority,” he said. “Besides encour
aging Cargill and helping the
company seek funding through
Department of Commerce
grants, NCGA invested checkoff
New Holland facility in Bre
ganze, Italy. The agreement is
pending approval of the Euro
pean Commission.
In February, CNH completed
the divestiture of the Austrian
commercial distribution rights
of two of its compact tractor
models to Lindner Trak
torcnwerk GesmbH, an Aus
trian agricultural machinery
maker. CNH will continue to
produce die Steyr model M-948
and M-9SB and Case IH models
CS 48/58 tractors at its Case IH
Steyr plant in St. Valentin, Aus
tria. Under terms of the divesti
ture agreement, the St. Valentin
plant will supply these tractors
to Lindner, which as agreed to
sell these tractors to Austrian
Case IH and Steyr dealer net
work under their respective
brands. Lindner also will sell the
tractors under its own brand
through its own dealers. The
agreement was approved by the
European Commission and al
ready has been implemented.
dollars from farmers to fund
basic research to get things
going. And Cargill helped us
evaluate research opportuni
ties.”
Klein said the combination of
Cargill’s expertise and Dow’s
strong industry position will
yield important new products
for consumers and will open an
important market for corn
growers.
He further illustrated some of
the longer-term opportunities
for corn. “This opens the door to
the possibility of other price
competitive consumer products
made from renewable resources
such as corn. The tremendous
potential for consumer goods
could eventually lead to demand
for another 500 million bushels.
That additional demand could
add 25 cents to the price of a
bushel of corn.”
Jg^mwaor
channel frame flexes to main
tain wheeel-to-ground contact in
all ground conditions, especially
when working on uneven ter
rain. Power transfer and trac
tion are smooth and steady with
full-time four-wheel hydrostatic
drive. It maintains all four
wheels on the ground for maxi
mum traction, stability and per
formance, and offers a smoother
ride and longer machine life.
The three-range hydrostatic
transmission allows travel
speeds of 11 mph to 26 mph. Hy
drostatic dynamic braking is
standard. A 70-gallon fuel tank
provides enough fuel to work a
full day, so the operator can
spend more time spraying and
less time refueling.
Variable-rate leaf-spring sus
pension allows the boom to
remain stable, regardless of
load. It also provides consistent
application rates and reduced
maintenance costs and reduces
operator fatigue to allow for
longer operating hours in a day.