C2-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 30,2001 Mid Atlantic Farm Credit Hires Marketing Specialist In Maryland WESTMINSTER, Md. Sandy Wieber, senior vice presi dent of marketing for Mid Atla ntic Farm Credit, has announced the hiring of Holly Richard as a marketing specialist. She will work in the association’s Mid- Maryland region, which in cludes Baltimore, Carroll, Cecil, Frederick, Harford, Howard, Montgomery, and Washington counties. Richard will assist with all as pects of advertising, tradeshow coordination, budget planning and- various other marketing tasks in her new position. She will also be involved with the company’s annual stockholders’ meetings, internal newsletter, and promotional projects in volving Farm Credit’s Country Mortgages segment. Richard comes to Mid Atlantic from a non-profit organization that worked for a government agency where she worked as a member relations coordinator. She grew up on an eastern shore farm and graduated from Mar ymount University in Arlington, Va. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communications. Land Pride Introduces 6’ Straw Crimper SALINA, Kan. Land Pride continues its strong position in the landscape and seeding market with the introduction of a six-foot Straw Crimper. After distributing a layer of hay or straw over newly worked or seeded areas, the Land Pride Straw Crimper is then used to force straw into the ground in 6‘/2-inch rows. The hairpinned straw holds a tight grip on the soil and keeps erosion to a mini mum during high winds and water runoff. The CR2S Series Crimper is New DMI nutri-till’r® 5310 Offers Numerous Improvements In Strip-till RACINE, Wis. Strip-till for corn and other row crops is one of the fastest growing trends in agriculture. “DMI has been the leader in Strip-till agro nomic research and technology for more than 10 years and has recently introduced the new nutri-till’r 5310 Strip-till System available this fall,” says Tim Nix, DMI marketing manager for Fertilizer Equipment. The DMI nutri-till’r 5310 has a number of important new fea tures designed to improve the quality of Strip-till results in several key areas: 1. Seed Bed Conditions: Be cause the Strip-till berm be comes the seed bed at planting time, soil management in the strip is critical. The exclusive DMI berm-condition’r™ baskets size clods and firm up the strips for a uniform seed bed and opti mum planter performance. “Its unique concave-shaped bars help shape and pre-settle the strip, and notched side plates enhance performance which ex pands the operating window,” says Nix. A special feature of the baskets is the ability to lock > Business * news Holly Richard Wieber states, ‘•Holly’s back ground in marketing, advertis ing and public relations will be an added asset to the marketing department of Mid Atlantic. We are excited to have her join our team.” Mid Atlantic Farm Credit is the largest ag lender on the east coast. It has 18 offices to serve its customers throughout the eastern shore of Maryland and Virginia, Delaware, eastern Pennsylvania and mid- Maryland. made to handle rough roadside conditions with a heavy-duty tu bular frame constructed of 2'/2”x2'/2”x3/16” material. The flat, notched discs are heat treated for durability, and fea ture a blunt tapered edge to hairpin the straw and not cut it. The disc hubs are greaseable, and formed from cast iron for years of dependability. Storage stands are located on all four corners for stability and ease of hook-up to the tractor. Water tanks are optional to safely and easily add up to 600 pounds of weight to the crimper. thenynto a raised position if re quired by field conditions. 2. Strip Height and Shape: The strip must contain all of the soil that is displaced by the Strip-till knife, or there will be a depression in the strip that may lead to erosion or poor planter performance. Says Nix, “Exclu sive DMI berm build’r'" double discs are specially positioned to catch all of the soil from the Strip-till knife; they are mounted independent of the shank, so they stay in contact with the ground at all times.” 3. Soil Tilth: Development of young, fast growing roots is de pendent upon the proper amounts of water and air in the soil. “While other shanks and parallel linkage assemblies often float out and result in less than desirable performance, the DMI exclusive High Clearance Shank (HCS ,N ) is the right tool for con sistent row tillage in Strip-till,” according to Nix. The HCS pro vides increased holding power of 1,150 pounds, yet has good trip clearance for rocks or buried ob jects. 4. Residue Management: Res- J-Star Industries Honors Dealers Left, Clark Brandt of Gladhill Tractor Mart, Inc., Frederick, Md., was pre sented with the Bronze MVP Award by General Sales Manager John Ryan, right, of J-Star Ag Division at a recent awards banquet held in Carlisle. White Oak To Conduct PQA Meeting ELIZABETHTOWN (Lan caster Co.) White Oak Mills Inc. is inviting area swine pro ducers, bam managers, herds men, and swine owners to a Pork Quality Assurance (PQA) meeting at White Oak Mills’ headquarters, Elizabethtown, on Tuesday, July 10 at 7 p.m. Chet Hughes, Lancaster County extension, will be lead ing the one-hour meeting to cer tify or recertify pork producers for PQA. Light refreshments will be served. To reserve a seat at this infor mal meeting, call White Oak Mills’ customer service depart ment at (800) 468-5524 by noon Monday, July 9. Lancaster Farming Classified Ads Now seaichable on the Internet. ✓ Check Out Our Web Site w w\v laiicastcrfanmng cor idue should not be mixed into the strip, but a proper amount of residue should be left on the strip to protect the loose soil from the effects of wind and rain. The heavy-duty 24-inch DMI coulter cuts residue to pro vide even flow around the shank, then the berm build’r discs and berm condition’r bas kets distribute some of the resi due on top of the strip. DMI equipment is well known for durability, and the nutri-till’r 5310 is no exception. The durable frame has diagonal bracing for added strength and has been proven over millions of acres on the DMI line of anhy drous ammonia applicators. A newly-designed row marker pro vides exceptional durability and features a spring-reset breaka way mechanism that protects the marker. Durable-type FI (F) 12-ply tires provide longer life. Numerous studies have dem onstrated the advantages of Root Zone Banding fertilizer, es pecially in conjunction with Strip-till. The nutri-tiU’r 5310 is available with optional fertilizer kits for applying anhydrous am Left to right, Nelson Stoltzfus, Jacob Lapp, and John Beyer of Lapp’s Barn Equipment, Inc. of Gap, were pre sented with the Platinum MVP Award, the Roto-Mix Top Sales Leader Award, Farmstead Equipment Top Sales Leader Award and J-Star Genuine Parts Top Sales Leader Award by General Sales Manager John Ryan, far right, of J- Star Ag Division, at a recent awards banquet held in Carli sle. The elite MVP Award (Major Volume Performer) recognizes the company’s top dealers who have achieved bronze, silver, gold or platinum levels of sales and per formance objectives during 2000. The Top Sales Leader Award recognizes the Top Sales Leaders for J-Star’s main product lines. J-Star Industries of Fort Atkinson, Wis., markets a com plete line of Oswalt® and Roto-Mix® feed mixers; Waste Handler™ liquid manure pumps and liquid manure spreader tanks, Jamesway®, Van Dale® and Starline® silo unloaders, cattle feeders, conveyors, barn cleaners and roller mills and Digi-Star® electronics scale systems for the dairy and beef producers of North America. Left to right, Mike Brendle, Ken Mansfield and Randy Cayman of Soilenberger Silos Corporation, Chambers burg, were presented with the Platinum MVP Award, Gen uine J-Star Parts Award and Farmstead Top Sales Leader Awards by General Sales Manager John Ryan, far right, of J-Star Ag Division at a recent awards banquet held in Car lisle. Left to right, Homer Stamm, Danny Rovenoit and Brenda Rovenolt of Rovendale Ag and Barn Equipment, Watson town, was presented with the Silver MVP Award, 2 Million Dollar Winners’ Circle Award and Farmstead Equipment Top Sales Leader Award by General Sales Manager John Ryan, right, of J-Star Ag Division at a recent awards ban quet held in Carlisle. monia, liquid, and/or granular fertilizers. An optional rear hitch, for use when applying fer tilizer in a single pass, offers the convenience of constant height plus a wide hook-up pattern.
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