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22—Uinc«»tir Farming, Saturday. Oct 19,1974
Close to 800 samples shelled corn will go
through a weighing and moisture testing
procedure before this crew moves their equipment
to another part of the country. Bob Weaver, left,
Francis Goring, center, and Randy Keown, in dark
jacket, are researchers from Windfall, Indiana, who
Traveling Corn Researchers
Visit Lancaster County Farm
A trio of wayfaring com Trojan Seed Company, hail Missouri and gradually work
researchers pulled into the from Windfall, Indiana, their way east and North,
Charles Cassel Farm at home of Trojan’s Eastern until they’re in Canada. Then
Lititz RD2 this week with a Research Division. The job they pay another visit to
trailer load of buckets, of Bob Weaver, Randy each plot, to thin the
meters, scales and one of the Keown and Francis Goring is population from the original
world’s tightest one - row to travel to the company’s planting density of 33,000
com pickers. research plots East of the plants to the acre back to
The three men, all Mississippi. Starting in early - 26,000.
research assistants with the spring, they plant com in Finally, they visit each
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plot at harvest time to record
the yields. That’s what they
were doing this week on the
Cassel farm. The one-row
picker-sheller used in this
operation is a standard
production model, but
modified so that it cleans out
as completely as possible
after each variety is har
vested. “We could dump 50
pounds of com into one end
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Accuracy, Goring pointed
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Although Trojan has only
two-and-a-half acres of com
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research site, there are 252
varieties planted there. Most
of these varieties are ex
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research team is also run
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varieties. Some competitive
varieties are also checked.
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the three researchers also
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stalk quality, ear retention
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