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Lancaster Farming
LITITZ (Lancaster Co.)
With construction of a new ex
hibitor hall slated for completion
in time for the 2003 Farm Show
in Harrisburg, many farm equip
ment dealers throughout the re
gion will be returning to the show
with large floor exhibits.
One of those dealers is Binkley
& Hurst Bros. Inc., Lititz. While
the company has remained on
hand in recent years to represent
a cross-section of ag production
equipment at the Farm Show,
this year it will be back in force
with a 5,000 square-foot display.
Returning as a major exhibitor
to the Farm Show marks “a com
pletely different approach,” to
the event, said Don Hoover,
salesman at Binkey & Hurst for
19 years.
“This year, we’re seeing it
much more as a commercial op
portunity because the new exhibit
hall will be full of ag equipment
and supporting service compa
nies,” he said.
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Hoover said that the broad na
ture of the Farm Show, including
its youth livestock events and
many family-oriented activities,
makes it an appealing venue.
“We’re looking forward to put-
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forward to putting
our efforts into
Harrisburg. The
Farm Show has a
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Don Hoover
Binkley & Hurst Bros. Inc.
ting our efforts into Harrisburg,”
he said. “The Farm Show has a
great tradition behind it.,”
The roots of Binkley & Hurst
Bros, Inc. go back to 1939, when
Walter Binkley began selling
Huber tractors and livestock
feeds in the Lititz area. In 1975,
his son David Binkley teamed up
with brothers Leonard and Amos
Hurst Jr. to launch Binkley &
Hurst Bros.
The company has evolved into
a dealer of seven major brands of
farm equipment throughout the
Mid-Atlantic region today, with
50 employees and a strong focus
on service.
“We built the business on serv
ice,” Hoover said. He noted that
the company provides follow-up
service on every machine it sells,
as well as repair work on other
“brand X” equipment.
Included in the company’s
lineup are Case-IH and McCor
mick tractors, Kinze planters,
Sunflower tillage equipment,
Keenan mixers, and Gehl forage
and manure-handling equipment.
U.S. Farm Bill, Dairy Options
Focus Of Satellite Downlink
UNIVERSITY PARK (Centre
Co.) Dairy farmers and pro
ducers can learn about their op
tions under the 2002 federal farm
bill during a special satellite
workshop hosted by Penn State
in cooperation with Cornell Uni
versity, the Pennsylvania Farm
Bureau, and the USDA.
The satellite broadcast will be
offered from 9 a.m. to 3:30
p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 6 and
will be available nationwide
on the KU and C bands.
Program Coordinator Ken
Bailey, Penn State associate
professor of dairy markets
and policy, said the program
will focus on the dairy and
grain provisions of the Farm
Bill and how they will affect
dairy producers in the north
east U.S. and nationally.
“The new farm bill is pret
ty broad,” Bailey said. “It
has new dairy provisions,
new grain programs, and ex
panded funding under the
Environmental Quality In
centives Program (EQIP),
which is a cost-sharing pro
gram for livestock producers
to develop waste manage
ment systems.
“We want to make pro
ducers aware of provisions
that can affect their agricul
tural operations. For exam
ple, many producers don’t
know anything about the
new dairy deficiency pay
ment program.”
Bailey said the satellite
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Don Hoover, salesman for Binkley & Hurst Bros. Inc., is
looking forward to exhibiting farm machinery at the 2003
Pennsylvania Farm Show.
program will be targeted for
dairy operations in the northeast
ern U.S., but will address dairy
issues that affect the entire na
tion.
“For instance, the Farm Bill’s
new dairy deficiency payment
program is targeted to assist
smaller farm operations with 133
cows or less, which predominate
in Pennsylvania and several
northeastern states,” Bailey said.
“The grain provisions of the
Farm Bill are for anyone who
produces grain in the United
States, but we’re not really going
to delve into cotton and rice be
cause those aren’t big commodi
ties in the Northeast.”
The satellite program will un
fold in two parts. “Part I 2002
Farm Bill” starts at 9 a.m. and
ends at 10:50 a.m. It begins with
a welcome by Bailey, followed by
an introduction to the dairy title
to the Farm Bill by Mark Ste
phenson, extension professor at
Cornell University. Charles Ab
dalla, associate professor of agri
cultural economics at Penn State,
then will review the EQIP pro
gram and its potential effect on
livestock producers.
Joel Rotz of the Pennsylvania
Farm Bureau will discuss the leg
islative deliberations surrounding
the dairy provisions. Bailey, Ste
phenson, Abdal
la, and Rotz
then will ad-
dress questions
called in from
the audience.
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15-minute intermission, Bailey
will return with introductory re
marks followed by a discussion of
the Farm Bill’s grain provisions
by Lou Moore, Penn State profes
sor of agricultural economics.
Jayson Harper, professor of ag
economics, will explain crop in
surance provisions and join Bai
ley and Moore in answering audi
ence questions.
Part II of the program, cover
ing round IV of the Dairy Op
tions Pilot Program (DOPP IV),
will start at 11 a.m. and end at
3:30 p.m. Panelists from USDA’s
Risk Management Agency will
cover the basics of dairy risk
management, including an intro
duction to dairy options. The
afternoon portion of the program
then will focus on the rules of the
DOPP program.
Information for tuning satellite
receivers to access the program
will be available through local
county cooperative extension of
fices, which will have receiver in
formation and a list of counties
hosting this satellite downlink.
Not all counties will host the pro
gram. Satellite coordinate in
formation also will be available
on the Penn State Farm Bill 2002
Website at http://
farmbill2oo2.aers.psu.edu.
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