2'i l.iinrnMor Forming. Saturdny. Mnrcli 7.1070
Ortho Official Sees Exciting Decade
(Cou'imied from I’.ue 17)
i: mimlu is ot polit'i .iin "not
100 I .mill.it with tin- facts" :no
on the oiu u oiunent
• 'i.miiw .mon "
\> .1 ii'iilt. ho pi edicts 1 some
I.ISI mu* io lotions on
toii.o ol tho pesticides wo to us
i". It may not bo moutod in
oc \ o.i ». but we li.no to be
11. ih-t 10
One lO'iiU will probablv be tho
ii-i of “moio selective" and “less
j s i sistont" chemicals th.it will be
no o co-tlv and ha\o to be used
mo e frequently.
Risk Benefit
Noting that somet.mes ‘a m
t. n, a mount of ovei leading is
noedid to conect a situation,”
be staled the “risk-benefit equa
tion can't be ovei looked”
Bai low said Oitho is pnmnuly
iisc.uch ouenled and spends
millions of dollais on icscarch
Em development of a new com
pound is ‘ veiy expensive and
takes a Ion? long time” to put
on the maikel Fiom discoveiy
to maikct may take seven yeais
and cost $4 to $6 million
Some pioducts such as Oitho
cidc. on the maiket 20 to
25 veais, aie tiemendously suc
cessful money makeis, but many
p oducts last two oi thiee yeais
and don’t begin to letuin the in
vestment in them
The company is woikmg on
‘•some exciting new concepts”
including no-tillage fanning,
w hich basically involves elimina
tion of the age old concept of
plowing A piimary advantage is
that the giound maintains more
mo.stme with no-tillage
No-Tillage Problems
But Bailow acknowledge “not
all the problems” have been
woiked out with no-lillage Ques
tions of the approximately 75
fanners and fertilizer dealers
present indicated one problem
centers around how to apply fei
tilizei with no-tillage Adequate
equipment still hasn’t been de
veloped foi this phase of no-till
age, it was lepoited
His him is leading the way on
“the massive dose of insecticides
01 tungicides,” a one spray con
cept to last thiough the giowmg
stason This would leduce ma
tenal and labor costs
Reseaich is undeiway on seed
tieatment with compounds that
would be absoibed by the new
plant’s loots and piotect the
plant fiom geimmation to hai
vest
Bailow teimed this innovation
“woikmg our way out business,
in a sense You can see what a
ievolution that could cieate I be-
CROP GROWING
U S aguculture of the 70’s
will ieffect little change in the
puncipal ci ops giown but many
will be alteied 01 icclesigned to
fu highly efficient, business- 01-
itn'ed faiming systems, piedict
ecl a U S Depaitment of Agucul
tuie scientist iccently at the 22nd
Annual Midwest Feitilizei Con
iciencc
Di Mai tin G Weiss, -\gncul
tuial Reseat ch Seivicc. Washing
ton DC told the confeience of
innoi ations in cicp b'ending
aimed at facilitating laboi saving
pioduction
Small giains, tomatoes, cotton,
coin oats and tntical (wheat-ije
c,oss) aie some of the ciops he
mentioned that aie undei going
cunent ledesign leseaich Bleed
ing 40 pei cent moie piotein in
to'oats, loi example, could altei
considei ably its impoitance as a
comma cial ciop, he said
Di Weiss =aid additional mech
animation will be an impoitam
component of the cystems ap
p.oach to fanning m the 70s
Ru 1 innovations will be made
only it they contnbute to the
oni all efficiency of the system
hue at least some modified foim on increasing profits thiough use
will be developed " ol fertihzel
His Ihin is among lho«e woik- Maichclo p.uticulaily uigod
mg on spiavs that would cause fall plowing and feitilumg as a
insects to icmam in the juvenile "fine oppoitumty to get some of
stage and theieby pi event icpio the woik out of the way and get
(Juction "With the cuiienl atti- an early start next ycai.” Eaily
tude on pesieides. this is gel- spung planting, he emphasized,
ting a lot of attention ” is necessary to maximize yields
Fall Seeding
Woik is also underway on a
chemical that would allow plant
mg of seed m the fall The chem
ical would protect the seed din
ing the winter and allow gemin
ation in the spring This already
has been done successful with
wheat in some aieas of Canada,
he said
Teiming agucultuie “moie of
a lesearch ouented industiy than
evei befoie,” Bailovv said, “Theic
aie changes coming and theie
aie big changes coming in the
next decade
"NoTillage is one we pietty
well piomoted from its infancy
Massive dosage, if it goes, is one
we’ve done most of the woik on ”
Maxwell Maichele, OUho agro
nomist, gave a slide piesentation
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He repoited a mle of thumb
that for eveiy day after May 1
that coin is planted, the farmei
loses a bushel of production
In iespouse to a question, he
agieed there will be a five to
eight pci cent loss of nitrogen
fiom fall fertilizing, but this
loss will be “easily off-set by the
benefits ”
Bailow noted he was paiticu
laily happy to see a huge pio
portion of young fameis at the
banquet.
Willis Rohrer, piesident and
geneial manager of P L Rohier,
was master of ceiemomes
Among those piesent was Charles
Lupsha, regional sales managei
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