Goad Conservation Can Mean More Efficiency , Scientist Explains
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New Techniques to Increase Farm Output on Reduced Acreage
Frank Viets Jr, chief soil
scientist for the United States
Department of Agriculture re
gional soil and water conserva
tion laboratory at Fort Collins,
Colorado, is worried about the
attacks on fertilizer as a pollu
tant of streams, lakes and water
supplies.
Restricting fertilizer use so
we_would have to expand our
intensive cropland base would
be a national disaster, he warns.
However, Viets doesn’t give
nitrogen and phosphate ferti
lizers a completely clean bill
of health as non-polluters.
Proper Land Use
Rather, his theme is that soil
erosion and uncontrolled rain
runoff are the real villains
when it comes to agriculture
related pollution. He feels farm
ers, generally speaking, should
aim for top yields and use more,
not less, fertilizer, on their
best fields. Then, they can con
centrate production on land
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1. Fed to sows daily, starting one week
before farrowing until Mo weeks
that is least subject to erosion
and retire poorer land to less
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Hie great strides made in
erosion control and in increas
ed agricultural productivity
during the past 20 years have
let us retire more than 50 mil
lion acres to grass and less in
tensive use where the hazards
of erosion and pollution are
less, he reminds. He predicts by
further intensifying agriculture,
we can retire another 20 mil
lion acres.
This last, he believes, will re
quire more use of technical
know-how by farmers, larger
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probably a continuing trend
toward consolidating smaller
farm units into larger ones.
Thomas Beaver, vice presi
dent and general manager of
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Sperry Rand’s New Holland
farm equipment division, locat
ed here in one of the nation’s
after, Furox helps break the sow-to
pigs infection cycle.
2. Included in the starter rations dur
ing the first five weeks, Furox helps
prevent scours outbreaks triggered
by E. coli.
Norwich. Agricultural Products
Division of Morton-Norwich Products, Inc. Norwich, NY. 13815
finest agricultural areas, says
that throughout the nation,
farmers anod teams of agricul
tural scientists are working out
the shape of things to come in
conservation and better land
use.
Their efforts are directed
toward new and different ways
to “harvest” more of the rain
that falls, and to tillage and
management systems that im
prove soil structure and reduce
erosion.
They are studying the uses of
chemicals to directly and in
directly promote the cause of
conservation.
The Soil Conservation Ser
vice has high hopes that no-till,
minimum-till and modified till
age systems for row crops will
make a great contribution to
ward protecting soil and water
resources and increasing farm
productivity during 1970’5.
An SCS spokesman reports
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Harvest The Rain
3. When you bring in feeders, start
them immediately on feed medi
cated with Furox to combat stress
triggered infections.
4. If scours should break out, feed
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baby pigs with Furox Suspension.
Furox works because it is a specif
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bacteria do not appear to build up re
sistance to the nitrofurans, as they do
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about 7 million acres were
planted under the no-till
mefthod last year, compared
with less than 10,000 acres just
five years ago. And no-till can
cut soil erosion 65 to 95 per
cent.
In Oregon, agronomists are
building a herbicide safety
zone for weed-free grass seed
plantings by applying bands of
activated charcoal directly over
'the seed rows at planting time.
And, a Beltsville, Maryland,
USDA research center biolo
gists and soil scientists have
found chemical additives for
herbicides that may lead to
more effectiv weed control with
fewer applications at lower her
bicide rates.
Air pollution and soil losses
from wind erosion are still with
us in the 1970’5. But tests in
humid Ohio and in dryland sec
tions of Nebraska show mini
mum tillage of such row crops
as corn, along with a sod or crop
> residue cover on the field, can
prevent wind erosion and bring
higher yields, even on highly
blowable soils.
In the Nebraska Sandhills, 150
bushels of corh to the acre, and
more, have been grown recently
under irrigation on soils that
wouldn’t support a corn crop
before.
The secret is not irrigation
alone. Sod planting of corn to
control blowing on these light
soils is what makes the irriga
tion workable.
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