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New Fertilizer Coulter Recently
Introduced By Great Plains Mfg.
SALINA, Kan. Great
Plains Mfg. Inc. recently intro
duced an all-new fertilizer
coulter to add to its line of preci
sion planting components and
attachments. The Vantage 111
fertilizer coulter uses a specially
designed “foot” to apply liquid
starter fertilizer under the
ground.
Research shows that starter
fertilizer will increase corn
yields on average of 7 to 10
bushel per acre. If conditions are
right and placement is more
precise, yields can be increased
by as much as 25 to 30 bushel!
Rick Hanson, marketing
manager for Great Plains Mfg.
Inc. said “The trick get opti
mum placement with your
starter. The industry standard
has been 2 inches over and 2
inches down (2x2). In furrow
placement can ‘burn’ and
reduce stand counts and yields.
The 2”x2” method is safe, but
our research shows it is too far
WARNERS, N.Y. Agway
Farm Seed, formerly a business
unit of Agway, Inc., has an
nounced the change of the busi
ness name to FS Seeds.
The change to FS Seeds is
part of a renewed focus on qual
ity products, customer service,
and stability enhanced by the or
ganization’s new parent com
pany, Growmark, Inc.
“The added resources ol our
parent company, coupled with
Williams Joins Chesapeake
CHESTERTOWN, Md.
Chesapeake Fields Institute
(CFI) has announced the ap
pointment of S. Lansing Wil
liams, CPA, as Director of
Administration/Accounting.
CFI is a local non-profit organi
zation seeking to increase the
profitability of mid-Atlantic
area family farmers.
Williams will oversee the ad
ministration of grant funds, pro
vide leadership with strategic
planning and oversee organiza
tional and project budgeting. He
brings an extensive array of ex
perience in all aspects of finan
cial and administrative
management including a broad
knowledge of financial informa
tion systems and spread sheet
analytical tools.
As a self-employed financial
consultant, Williams has
worked with a number of start
up companies, as well as having
served as controller for several
Washington area companies. He
has worked as an instructor/
lecturer for the USD A Graduate
School in Washington, D.C.,
and is currently a volunteer fi
nancial advisor for Common
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The all-new Vantage 111
fertilizer coulter added to
Great Plains Manufacturing
line of attachments.
away for quick response. Both of
these problems are solved with
Vantage 111.
Vantage 111 puts the starter
'/a-inch to Vi-inch below and Vi
inch on both sides of the seed.
You not only get optimum ferti
lizer placement, it also vastly
improves your seedbed condi
tions as well. Vantage 111 lifts
the soil slightly as it goes
through the soil to create a
‘tilthy’ seed zone environment.”
Agway Farm Seed FS Seeds
the experience and dedication ot
the FS Seeds employees, will
enable us to better serve North
east and Mid-Atlantic growers,”
said FS Seeds director, Martin
Dunton.
FS Seeds will offer a compre
hensive product line Of seed
corn, alfalfa, forage grasses, and
soybeans, complete with a wide
range of technology traits and
genetics adapted to the North
east and Mid-Atlantic regions.
Fields Institute
S. Lansing Williams
Ground on the Hill in Westmin
ster.
He holds a bachelors degree
from the University of Mary
land, College Park, and is a
graduate of the MBA executive
program at Loyola College in
Baltimore.
ATLANTA, Ga. A new
field report has just been re
leased that covers the big picture
and benefits growers are achiev
ing by using the tools of Preci
sion Agriculture.
Titled “Precision Agriculture,
Today and Tomorrow,” the 8-
page report also goes in-depth
on a North Dakota multi-crop
farm operation showing step-by
step details of how a producer
manages his acres for wider
profit margins with this technol
ogy.
“Precision Agriculture is
moving from a specialty area to
a maintream management prac
tice,” said Jerry Schmitt, gen
eral marketing manager for
FIELDSTAR, with the AGCO
Corporation. “Growers have
been gathering more detailed in
formation on their fields, ana
lyzing their maps and working
on advanced techniques like
variable rate applications of fer
tilizers and other crop inputs,”
he said. “Plus, they have more
accurate overall records of the
farming operation.”
“This report captures some of
this and shows in-depth how one
producer does it successfully on
a number of crops,” said
Schmitt.
The report includes field
FS Seeds maintains ware
house and office locations in
Warners, N.Y. and York.
Farm Workforce Management Issues Topic Of Proceedings
ITHACA, N.Y. Owners
and managers of farms, horti
cultural businesses, and agriser
vice businesses can learn to
create a work environment that
motivates employees and is pro
ductive, profitable, safe, and
worker-friendly.
The proceedings of a confer
ence entitled “Workforce Man
agement for Farms and
Horticultural Businesses: Find
ing, Training, and Keeping
Good Employees,” which took
place January 13-15, 1999, in
Camp Hill, Pa., includes papers
on various aspects of farm work
force management by experts
from the fields of human re
sources, law, business, aca
demia, and government.
Seminar To Address Feed Efficiency
LITITZ (Lancaster Co.)
Are you interested in a potential
$1 per CWT increase in profit
for your milk?
If so, producers can attend a
free seminar on feed conversion
efficiency hosted by Keenan
USA and Binkley & Hurst
Brothers.
The seminar is scheduled
Monday, July 21, from 11 a.m.-2
p.m. at the Lititz Family Cup
board Restaurant, just west of
Rt. 501 off Newport Road.
Scheduled to speak are;
• Tony Hall, senior TMR spe
cialist, Keenan USA.
• David E. Beever, professor,
Center for Dairy Research,
United Kingdom.
• Corwin Holtz, director of
£
New Report Covers Benefits
Of Precision Agriculture
maps, satellite images, and other
specific details of the Carson
Farms operation in St. Thomas,
N.D. Owner/operator Pete
Carson notes that his Precision
Agriculture program has been
built around the Fieldstar office
software installed on his desktop
computer and helps him reduce
crop inputs, especially nitrogen
fertilizer, as well as adjust other
WEST CHESTER (Chester
Co.) Farm owners interested
in preserving their farm may sell
an agricultural conservation
easement, otherwise known as
development rights, to the
County of Chester and/or Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania.
The purpose of the Agricultural
Conservation Easement Pro
gram is to preserve viable agri
cultural lands in Chester
County.
The Chester County Agricul
tural Conservation Easement
Program is a voluntary program
that financially compensates
farm owners for placing a per
petual agricultural conservation
easement on their land. The
easement allows the farmer to
continue farming, but insures
that the land will never be devel
oped.
The Chester County Agricul
tural Land Preservation Board
The proceedings Workforce
Management for Farms and
Horticultural Businesses: Find
ing, Training, and Keeping
Good Employees, NRAES-117
($l5 plus S&H/sales tax, 140
pages, January 1999), offers
fourteen papers, including dis
cussions of such key issues as the
value of employees, communi
cating the business’s mission,
and managing a multicultural
workforce.
In addition to owners and
managers of farms, horticultural
businesses, and agribusinesses
and professionals who advise
them, this publication will be of
interest to managers and owners
of businesses not big enough to
have a human resources depart
technical support at CPG Nu- Brothers to reserve your lunch,
trients, Syracuse, N.Y. Out of the area code, call toll-
Call Jim Huber or Matt free (800) 626-4705; inside the
Breneman at Binkley & Hurst 717 area code, call 626-4705.
SHIPPENSBURG (Cumber
land Co.) In a move to unify
and coordinate the company’s
overall marketing and sales ef
forts, company president David
E. Durr announced that Frank
A. Ziacik Jr. has been named
vice president of marketing and
sales for all of Agway Feed &
Nutrition.
Ziacik moved from the posi
tion of dairy marketing and
sales manager to his new role or
Jan. 24. “In the past year, Frank
has demonstrated his leadership
capabilities as the person re-
sponsible for marketing our
dairy feed business,” Durr says.
“In this expanded leadership
role, he will continue to develop
new programs that demonstrate
our technical expertise and cus
tomer commitment that sets us
apart from the competition.”
Chester Co. Accepting Farm
Preservation Applications
Ziacik Named Agway Feed &
Nutrition Vice President Of Sales
variables to increase protit mar
gins.
To get a copy of “Precision
Agriculture, Today and Tomor
row,” call (800) 767-3221, visit
www.agcocorp.com and select
North America and Request Lit
erature, or visit a local AGCO
farm equipment dealer in your
area.
has 168 farms totaling 16,600
acres under agricultural conser
vation easement.
The Commonwealth-County
program is open to all Chester
County landowners with farms
of SO acres or more located
within an Agricultural Security
Area. (Smaller farms of 10 acres
or more, are permitted to apply,
if they are adjacent to farms al
ready under easement.) Farms
applying to the program will be
ranked based on soil quality and
other factors that are addressed
in the information you may re
quest.
Contact the Chester County
Agricultural Land Preservation
office at (610) 344-6285, or 601
Westtown Road, GSC, Suite
270, P.O. Box 2747, West Ches
ter, PA 19380 for application
and program guidelines. The
deadline for applications is Sep
tember 1.
ment, public- and private-sector
farm advisors, professionals In
the service and supply industry,
agricultural educators, and gov
ernment agency staff.
Workforce Management for
Farms and Horticultural Busi
nesses: Finding, Training, and
Keeping Good Employees,
NRAES-117, is available for $l5
per copy plus shipping and han
dling from NRAES, Coopera
tive Extension, PO Box 4557,
Ithaca, NY 14852-4557.
For more information or a
free copy of our publications ca
talog, contact NRAES by phone
at (607) 255-7654, by fax at (607)
254-8770, or by e-mail at
NRAES@CORNELL.EDU.
In this new position, Ziacik is
responsible for the company’s
marketing program and sales
force, who handle bulk dairy,
equine, and specialty feed sales.
Ziacik joined Agway in July
of 1990 as a management and
sales trainee. One year later, he
became a dairy nutrition spe
cialist. In April of 1996 he was
named as the sales manager for
eastern Pennsylvania, supervis
ing 11 salespeople. Frank took
on additional duties as the dairy
marketing and sales manager in
October 2001.
Ziacik is a graduate of Penn
State University with a B.S.
degree in Agricultural Business
Management and is currently
pursuing his MBA from Ship
pensburg University of Pennsyl
vania. He lives in
Chambersburg, with his wife,
Jamie, and their two sons.