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ELIZABETHTOWN (Lancaster
Co.) Messick’s Farm Equipment,
a dealer for more than 200 brands
of equipment for agriculture, lawn
and garden and light industrial
areas, is returning hill-strength to
the Farm Show.
Although Jay Gainer, general
manager, is reserving final
judgment until after this year’s
Farm Show, he believes the fiiture
of the event looks bright.
“I think that the farmers would
prefer to go there (Farm Show)
rather than anywhere else,” he said,
noting that with everything from
com to livestock to quilt to FFA dis
plays, “there’s something for every
body. That’s what people want.”
4 41 think that the farmers would prefer to go
there (Farm Show) rather than anywhere
else.... There’s something for everybody.
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He is optimistic about the
changes at the Farm Show. “We
think what they’re doing is valuable
and will work,” he said.
The business part will be fully
staffed five employees in the
50-foot by 50-foot section during
the specified Farmer Days. Staff
will be available, although at small
er numbers, throughout the entire
eight-day show.
The large new exhibition hall will
hold the equipment displays. “We
got in early and told them we want
ed big,” he said of the size of the
display area.
For the past ten years, the busi
ness’ presence at the Farm Show
has been a booth display, according
to Gainer. Besides the larger area,
the employees of Messicks will also,
along with other dealers, staff a
booth for compact tractors.
“It will take quite a commit
ment,” said Gainer. Although ad
vertising and public relations are a
part of why Messick’s the business
Jay Gainer, general manager, stands with Bob Messick,
owner of Messick’s Farm Equipment.
We Salute Our Farming Industry
Farm Show
2003
Exhibitor
Spotlight
presence at the Farm Show, “most
farmers already know us. There’s a
growing segment of 15-20 acre
farmers and that’s where I think we
gain the most from a show like
this,” he said.
Besides introducing the business
to hobby farmers. Gainer is also an
ticipating displaying a new line this
year, the Newton Crouch stainless
steel lime and fertilizer spreaders.
“It’s a wonderful place to introduce
to people a new line,” he said.
Messick’s Farm Equipment, one
of the biggest New Holland dealers
in the United States, is on the verge
of celebrating its fiftieth anniversary
of business.
Two brothers, Marlin and Mer-
ville Messick, erected a building in
Elizabethtown on November 26,
1952. The business’ current 21-acre
site in Elizabethtown is joined by a
second facility in Abbottstown,
York County.
Bob and Ken Messick, sons of
Merville Messick, operate the busi
ness. Seventy-two employees in
service, parts, and sales depart
ments work in the business.
Messick’s has a large customer
base in Pennsylvania, Maryland,
New Jersey, Delaware, and Virgin
ia, but also has customers in such
states as Ohio, Connecticut, Maine,
Massachusetts, and South Carolina.
In the 25 years that Gainer has
worked at Messick’s Farm Equip
ment, the number of employees has
risen from 10 to 72 employees. Two
components to the business that
Gainer believes make the business
successful are the outside parts de
livery salesmen and the fully
equipped service trucks for on-farm
repair.
Jay Gainer
Messick’s