A2O-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 7, 2002
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Hamilton Equipment Returns
To Farm Show
EPHRATA (Lancaster Co.)
“Our state legislators have com
mitted significant state funds to
build the new exhibitor hall. The
enthusiasm of the Farm Show
commission and their employees
is contagious,” said David Rupp,
sales manager of Hamilton
Equipment, Inc.
“It seems like a total renewed
commitment by the state,” he
said. “I really don’t know of any
other state in our area that has
new facilities like these.”
The Farm Show, Rupp be
lieves, will be worth the time and
effort of the company.
After a two-year hiatus from
exhibiting at the Farm Show, the
business will return to the event,
partly because of the financial
commitment which shows re
newed effor&J)gJbe state, said
Rupp.
Hamilton Equipment has been
exhibiting at the Pennsylvania
Farm Show since 1940.
The business will have 5,600
square feet at the Farm Show.
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“Farmer Days” will be important
to the business, the week ends are
also critical, said Rupp.
“We have quite a bit of busi
ness from weekend and hobby
farmers, who also contribute a
great deal to the bottom line,” he
said. The company “is not
limited to high-horsepower trac
tors. I think Hamilton Equip
ment has products that apply to
both customers.”
Hamilton Equipment, founded
in 1938 by Bob Hamilton Sr. and
run by his son, Bob Hamilton, is
a wholesale distributor selling
farm equipment through a net
work of servicing dealers in
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Dela
ware, Maryland, Virginia, and
West Virginia.
Bob Hamilton Sr., who grew
up on the farm was the lone sales
man. The business has grown
from a main warehouse to a
4,000 square foot building in
downtown Ephrata to include
seven territory managers in a six
state area.
Products distributed by Ham
ilton Equipment include Danuser
post hole diggers, DEMCO
sprayers, Herd seeders, Kelley
backhoes and loaders, Westfield
grain augers, and Worksaver
farm products.
The company has expanded to
include Hamilton Distributing, a
paint distribution business with
more than 140 paint prod ucts
for residential customers.
Hamilton Equipment employs
70 people in their three ware
houses at Ephrata, Raphine, Va.,
and Leola. The Leola ware house
is a separate warehouse for paint
distribution and has a separate
sales force.
“The support of Pennsylva
nia's farmers is the reason we
have grown from a company with
4,000 square feet of warehouse to
our current facilities with 70,000
square feet in Ephrata and 33,000
square feet in Ra phine, Virgin
ia,” said Rupp.
For more information, their
Website is www.Hamfnc.com.
New Tool Helps Dairy Producers
Stay Posted On Animal Diseases
COLUMBUS, Ohio As part
of an industry-wide initiative to
address animal health issues,
dairy producers now have a new
tool to help spot and fight Foot
and-Mouth Disease (FMD) a
dairy industry-specific brochure
that details essential information
about the disease.
The brochure, Foot-and-Mouth
Disease and the Dairy Industry’s
Emergency Preparedness, is a
joint effort among the dairy
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A few of Hamilton Equipment’s employees include,
from left, Charlie Potteiger, warehouse manager; Jan
Reddig, parts manager; Robert Grills, shipping; Barry
Groff, parts; Edwin Stauffer, warehouse; Albert Dorrick,
parts; David Rupp, sales manager; and Floyd Heuyard,
warehouse clerk.
ternational Dairy Foods Associa
tion. As a cost-savings measure,
the brochure was mailed to all
U.S. dairy farmers with the 2001
DMI Annual Report, which pro
vides an overview of 2001 dairy
checkoff program.
Additionally, the brochure con
tains a special pullout, wall-size
poster printed in both English
and Spanish that outlines key on
farm biosecurity tips.
“The brochure and poster are
meant to inform the entire dairy
industry about how we can all
pitch in to help keep FMD out of
the United States,” says Scott
HigginS, CEO of the American
Dairy Association and Dairy
Council &lid East.
Information covered in the
brochure, which was reviewed ex
tensively by the U.S. Department
of Agriculture and the American
Association of Bovine Practition
ers, includes:
• Basic information about
FMD and how it’s spread.
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