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—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 22, 1973
Lebanon County Growers
Tour No-till Corn Fields
Corn growers from Lebanon
and Lancaster counties had a
close look at an unconventional
method of growing corn this
week. A tour of six Lebanon
County farms, sponsored jointly
by the Lebanon County
Agricultural Extension Service,
the Lebanon Soil Conservation
District and representatives of
the Chevron Chemical company,
attracted approximately 40
farmers.
Known as “no-till” or zero
tillage corn, this novel cultural
method uses a special planter
that needs no soil preparation
other than that provided by the
planter itself. A sturdily built
machine, it opens a furrow with a
fluted coulter, plants the seed and
places the fertilizer in the row,
then firms the soil around the
seed. Herbicides and insecticides
can be applied at the same time.
Karl Hellerick, District Soil
Conservationist, sees the no-till
method of com growing as a
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prime means of controlling soil
erosion, especially in Lebanon
County where large crop areas
are plowed up and planted in corn
year after year. “With the No-till
method, the soil is not tom up
each year, a cover crop or mulch
is maintained on the surface, and
the rich topsoil remains on the
surface where it belongs”. Mr.
Hellerick pointed out several
examples of this soil saving
feature where no-till com was
planted near conventionally
planted corn. There was
noticably less erosion on the no
till field, and the soil was firmer,
even following the recent four
inch rainfall. Heavy machinery
was seen harvesting com on
these fields, while nearby plowed
fields were still too wet to support
this equipment.
Chemical herbicides are an
essential part of the no-till com
program At planting time, all
green and growing vegetation is
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killed with Paraquat, a non
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Paraquat, pointed out the im
portance of properly identifying
any weed or cover vegetation
problems so that the correct
herbicide combinations can be
used. Fall Panicum, a grassy
weed, was seen as a major weed
problem in some of the fields on
the tour. “You must have the
residual herbicides such as Lasso
or Princep in the soil before
Panicum germinates once it is
up, nothing will control it.”
Except for this grass, the no-till
com fields were relatively free of
weeds.
Penn State Agronomist Willis
McClellan noted that Penn
sylvania had 300,000 acres
planted in no-till corn this year.
He predicted that 60 percent to 65
percent of all corn planted in
Pennsylvania within five years,
would be no-till. McClellan urged
fanners to order all of their
fertilizer needs for next spring as
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Two separate tours of Lebanon
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fields were visited on the farms of
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