—Corn Talk, Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 14, 2000
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PMCGA, Seed Industry
Want Your Membership
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Growers Association
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Membership Application
Name
Farm Name
Address
r/State/Zii
Count
Phone
Farm Acres
New Member or Renewal
PMCGA and NCGA dues for one year: $3O
Special! Three years for $75!
Make checks payable to; PMCGA
Send to. PMCGA
P 0. Box 304
State College, PA 16804
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Growers who harvest more than 5 acres of com each
year and sign up for a least three year membership
qualify to recieve a free unit of seed com of their
choice from the participating seed company below
Please indicate your choice if you qualify
Seedway
Cargill Hybrid Seed
My cogen
Agripro
Doebler's Pa. Hybrids Inc.
Monsanto/Dekalb Bty/Asgrow RR
Agway
Chemgro
Pioneer Hi-bred Inti.
Hoffman/Novartis Seeds
Agri Bio-Tech Hytest Seeds
Garst Seed
Stine Seed
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corn producer-related issues.
With our Membership In
centive Program (MIP), corn
producers who grow five or
more acres of corn can now
Corn Acres
Incentive Proorai
join both organizations with
little real cost.
The MIP program works
like this:
If you sign up for a three
year joint membership for
$75, you can receive a free
bag of seed from one of our
participating industry part
ners listed on the form. To get
signed up, complete your
membership form and send it
in to our office at the address
listed on the form along with
a check for $75 made payable
to PMCGA to cover the
three-year membership.
Our office will then send
your name to the seed com
pany you have selected and a
coupon to you indicating you
have qualified for the pro
gram. You will then be con
tacted by one of the seed
company reps and your seed
will be delivered before the
planting season.
This is a win-win-win
proposition you get a bag
of seed and membership in a
large national organization
for $75, NCGA and PMCGA
get your support, and the
seed industry gets to show
case new genetics to key pro
ducers.
As a member of NCGA,
you will be part of a 30,000-
member national organiza-
tion that is addressing many
of the issues we face in the in
dustry. Current issues in
clude corn prices, industry
consolidation, environmental
issues, and development of
new markets for corn.
NCGA also sponsors the
National Corn Yield Contest
and Commodity Classic.
They also send a quarterly
newsletter to all members,
entitled the National Corn
Grower. PMCGA sponsors
one or two conferences a
year, the Five-Acre Corn
Club, Corn Talk, and helps to
promote corn issues to the
public at many local events.
If you are a corn producer
who grows at least five acres
of corn, consider joining for
three years today and taking
advantage of the MIP pro-
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PENNSYLVANIA MASTER CORN GROWERS ASSOC., INC.
gram. Use the MIP program Master Corn Growers Associ
to look at some new hybrids a tion (PMCGA) automati
that some of our seed com- gaily makes you a member in
pany partners have available the National Com Growers
this year. Remember, mem- Association (NCGA).
bership in the Pennsylvania
New Faculty Member
Sjoerd W. Duiker recently
joined the faculty as an as
sistant professor of soil man
agement and applied soil
physics. He just completed
his doctorate degree in soil
science at Ohio State, where
his dissertation dealt with the
effects of iron oxides on the
erodibility of soils from the
southern USA and Spain.
Sjoerd has a master’s
degree in tropical crop sci
ence from Wageningen Agri
cultural University in The
Netherlands. Duiker is origi
nally from The Netherlands
and moved to State College
with his wife and two daugh-
TAKE NOTE FROM YOUR
PLANTER DEALER
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Mr. Planter Owner:
Thank you for taking a minute to consider this offer.
Binkley & Hurst Bros. Inc. is offering a preseason inspection and
evaluation of your planter for the purpose of identifying worn,
broken, or malfunctioning parts. Many times, seemingly insignifi
cant wear will affect the accuracy of your planter more than you
realize. If nothing else, it may be time to have your finger pickup
meters checked on our test stand. Also, new innovations, attach
ments and options are constantly being introduced which may be
of interest to you for installation on your planter.
Binkley & Hurst parts and service personnel are specifically trained
and informed planter specialists, ready to examine your planter
with you l If you determine that the planting proficiency of your
planter could be improved with our service, we would be happy to
provide that service for you, and a technician would return at a later
date to assist you in doing the work. We encourage you to be part
of the actual servicing so that any pointers or insight, which the
technician may have for you with regard to planter operation, could
be conveyed at that time.
What does it cost?
If you set up an appointment for a planter evaluation, you will be
charged a flat fee:
4 or 6 row planter $175.00
8 row planter $200.00
12 or 16 row planter $225.00
(Customers over 100 miles travel, subject to mileage charge.)
At time of inspection we will recommend to you any item needing
attention, also at that time we will remove your seed meters to take
in for testing if you so desire.
Save $4.00 per meter by scheduling your testing
before Feb. 1, 2001.
If you have any questions, please contact the service department
at 717-626-4705.
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JBHV (717)626-4705 1-800-414-4705
Fax 717-626-0996 www.binkleyhurst.com
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ters,
Sjoerd’s responsibilities at
Penn State Agronomy Dept,
are in extension 75 percent
and research 25 percent. He
plans to develop a strong ex
tension education program in
tillage procedures, tillage
equipment, crop rotations,
and soil physical properties
as affected by cropping sys
tems. His research program
will cover the same areas.
For more information, con
tact Duiker at Department of
Agronomy, Pennsylvania
State, 116 Agricultural Sci
ences and Industries Build
ing, University Park, PA
16802-3504, (814) 863-7637
or e-mail swdlO@psu.edu