The Rural Voice, 1985-07, Page 48FARM NEWS
Deutz (KHD)
purchases Allis-Chalmers
The recent purchase of Allis-
Chalmers by Klockner-Humboldt-
Deutz (KHD) of West Germany will
provide the newly named Deutz -Allis
dealerships with a full line of
agricultural equipment under one
name.
Deutz -Allis dealers such as Larry
Hackett of Lucknow, in business with
his father, Allen, and brother,
Steven, are pleased with the new
alliance, which eliminates the need to
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have a number of short lines to fill
out their range of equipment.
The KHD agricultural equipment
line, known as Deutz -Fahr, includes
tractors from 25 to 190 horsepower,
haying equipment (the Fahr line),
combines, and self -unloading
wagons. As well as continuing many
of the Deutz -Fahr and Allis-Chalmers
lines, Deutz -Allis plans a new line of
specialty tractors starting in 1986.
The Model 385 series, a new planter
line adaptable to conventional plan-
ting and conservation tillage, was
recently launched by Deutz -Allis.
KHD of Cologne, West Germany,
is one of the largest industrial firms in
Europe, with about $2.5 billion in
volume and operations in 75 coun-
tries. In addition to agricultural
equipment, about one-third of sales,
the company manufactures mining
equipment and is the world's largest
producer of air-cooled engines.
Deutz -Allis expects that restructur-
ing and a reduced cost of production
will help the company to avoid the
problems encountered by North
American farm equipment businesses
in recent years. ❑
No more subsidized trees
available to municipalities
When members of Huron County
Council were informed that they
would be paying considerably more
for the nursery stock used in the road-
side planting program, David
Bert Visscher, a farmer in the Exeter
area and past winner of the Norman
Alexander Conservation A ward,
checks seed depth in his 1985 tillage
plots. Visscher hosted a press day
recently to familiarize the media with
conservation practices.
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Johnston, Bayfield reeve, suggested
that the county raise its own stock on
its own land. Robert Dempsey, coun-
ty engineer, says that his department
doesn't have the expertise for raising
trees, but also points out that he and
the road committee have considered
this possibility, among others.
The trees in question, known as
"whips," have been supplied by the
Ministry of Natural Resources
(MNR) at a very low price. The MNR
will no longer be supplying such trees,•
and the cost for planting will increase
1,000 per cent, predicts Dempsey.
The change in supply is part of the
government's new tendency toward
privatization, Dempsey says.
The trees used to supply the MNR
program were grown at St. Williams
Nursery where plantings of such trees
are being phased out. These trees
were available only to conservation
authorities and municipalities.
Murray Hall, a forest manager
technician with the MNR in
Wingham, reassures farmers that the
inexpensive seedlings available to
them for planting windbreaks will
still be available. "At the nursery, the
phasing out of larger trees should
even free up some seedbeds for more
seedlings," Hall says.
But the county is forced to find a
new source of trees. Council intends
to encourage tenders from local
nurseries. The MNR itself will be far-
ming out more requests for trees to
private nurseries.
Studies have shown that green and
white ash are the most hearty trees to
plant along the roadside because they
are resistant to salt. The county buys
1,200 whips and between 2,000 and
4,000 seedlings (of ash and other trees
which are most resistant to salt condi-
tions) annually, Dempsey says. ❑
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