10—Lancaster Farming,
Saturday. March 1.1969
i Crops & Soils
(Continued from Page 1)
win a contest not trying to make
the most piofit
Othci figmcs given were
total cost per acie fiom .$7B to
5196 and laboi and management
ietui ns fiom 594 to Sl9l
“These figuios don’t tell you
much about yourself in your
own opeiation” he said "The
majoi expenses are not the
same foi each farmei.”
In figunng costs, Cooper list
ed fixed costs such as - land,
labor and management and
equipment overhead (deprecia
tion, intei est housing and insur
ance) He also said you must al
so consider variable costs such
as seed, lime, fertilizer, sprayS,
lepaus, fuel, lube and custom
work
“Generally the low yields
make the highest cost pei ton,”
he said, “but not always
Neither does the highest bushel
per acre yield produce the high
est cost corn ” Cooper recom
mended farmers to get the valu
able information needed to
figure their own production
costs
On another subject dunng the
day-long program. Joe McGa
hen, extension agianomist, said.
“I would look at a new hybnd
for a year 01 two before I went
‘hog-wild’ on it See if it has
good standability and note how
it matures ”
Speaking on the subject,
“Where Are We Headed in Corn
Growing’”, McGahen said, “The
major problem in corn produc
tion is to get a hybrid that will
stand and grow to maturity ”
On minimum tillage, the
specialist said, every trip across
the field costs money “Pro
bably the best type of seed bed
would be plowed ground level
ed off a little,” he said. “Which
way you go is up to you Even
zero tillage works well if done
right. Just think in dollars and
cents You can kill sod with
chemicals but I can kill it
cheaper with a plow.”
“The basis of a fertilizer pnf
gram is a soil test,” McGahen
said “It‘s foolish to apply a fer
tilizer item if you don’t need it
The old idea of going by a “rule
of-thumb” is old-fashioned ”
The agionomist said, “There
is no question we can improve
yields with narrow row spacing
How narrow is a machinery
pioblem To sacrifice a good
pi ice of equipment to go to nar
row rows is not good ”
“If you go to narrow rows,
you must also go to higher coin
populations I don’t like to go
beyond 24 000 plants per acre
for grain,” McGahan said “I
feel farmers may get earned
away and plant population way
way over the land productivity
Eight to nine inches apait in
the rows seems to be the best
spacing for good yields ”
Othei speakeis and subjects
included George Beiggien, ex
tension agionomist, “Weed Con
trol, 1969 Style”, C R Stud
holme, state supervisor of Wild
Life Seivices, “Nuisance Buds”
(conti oiling them now and in
the futuie) and Robeit Tet
rault, extension entomologist,
“Farm Ciop Insect Conti ol Foi
1969 ”
Arnold G Lueck, associate
county agent, was in chaige of
the piogram
Mulch Strawberry Plants Soon
Extension pomologists at The
Pennsylvania State University
i ecommend placing about three
inches of clean straw, o hay, 01
other mulch over 1 entire
strawberry bed. If a don’t
hav enough materu. ‘o cover
the entne b d. just er . .e
rows well and leave the . jb
between the rowj uncovtre*.
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