Farm Credit moves from Muncie to Hagerstown</p><p>
HAGERSTOWN, Ind. — The Dec. 21 grand opening for the newest Farm Credit Services (FCS) of Mid-America office in Hagerstown drew more than 200 members, special guests and FCS employees, including several senior managers from the corporate office in Louisville, Ky., and FCS board members Ed Yanos of Cambridge City and Matt Walther of Centerville.</p><p>
The grand opening was held in conjunction with the office’s Christmas event and included a ribbon cutting ceremony with the local Chamber of Commerce, followed by food and prizes, which included rocking chairs and Pacers and Reba McEntire tickets.
The ag lending cooperative, which has 90-year roots financing rural America, relocated from a smaller office in Muncie, Ind., to the 3,800 square-foot building in Hagerstown, located at State Road 1 and Teetor Road. The office serves more than 1,000 farmers and rural residents in Delaware, Henry, Jay, Randolph, Union and Wayne counties and accommodates nearly $150 million in loan volume.</p><p>
The Hagerstown office opened its doors earlier in December. It is part of the Farm Credit network, an agricultural cooperative serving more than 81,000 members with over $13 billion in assets throughout Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio and Tennessee.</p><p>
Its seven-person office staff, who transferred from Muncie, includes financial services officers Randy Coffman, Jeff Schmidt, Deanna Lehman and Mike Reed. The customer service representatives are Anita Gabbert, Julie McDonnell and Amy Reed.</p><p>
To contact the Hagerstown office, call 800-647-0299 or go online to www.e-farmcredit.com</p><p>

New DuPont herbicide gets EPA approval for wheat use</p><p>

WILMINGTON, Del. — DuPont has received registration approval from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for Agility SG herbicide, a new product designed to provide wheat growers with a better tool for broad spectrum weed control, including ALS resistant species.</p><p>
Agility features four active ingredients and two modes of action in a single formulation to offer convenient, broad spectrum control without the hassles of mixing multiple products.</p><p>
Agility SG herbicide harnesses two patented, proprietary technologies from DuPont: homogeneous blends and DuPont TotalSol soluble granules. The homogeneous blend technology enables DuPont to rapidly develop new herbicides with multiple active ingredients to respond to changing weed control issues. TotalSol is a new formulation that dissolves completely for more consistent weed control and improved tank cleanout.</p><p>
Agility SG controls more than 80 tough broadleaf weeds, including Russian thistle, pigweed and kochia, even ALS-resistant species. It is also is covered by the DuPont Crop Protection Plus wheat program, which provides growers who purchase qualifying herbicides with product cost replacement if their crop is destroyed by drought, flood, frost, freeze, fire or hail.</p><p>

T-L Irrigation recognizes four outstanding Midwest dealers</p><p>

HASTINGS, Neb. — T-L Irrigation Co., the exclusive manufacturer of hydrostatically powered center pivot irrigation systems, is pleased to announce dealers achieving award levels for outstanding sales performance for 2007.</p><p>
Top-performing dealers can reach three award levels – gold, silver or bronze – depending on their achievement over the year, and T-L Irrigation congratulates the recipients for their outstanding performance in pivot sales and customer satisfaction.</p><p>
In Indiana, Andy Stroop of Precision Irrigation in LaGrange achieved the bronze award level, and Terry Kelsey Equipment of Monterrey reached the silver award level. C.F.C.O., Inc. of Lawrenceville, Ill., also achieved the silver award level, as did Zirk Welding of Eau Claire, Mich.</p><p>