—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 29, 1975
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Young
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kept busy during the growing
and harvest season. Even so,
he spent some $14,000 on
custom work last year. "I
figured that it might cost
money for custom work, but
that way I don’t have to
worry about hiring another
man and keeping him busy
the whole year,” Wright
said. “I’m on the Penn
sylvania Farmers
Association farm
management service, and
last year their computer told
me I had only 2.67 full-time
men working here. I try to
keep my labor costs as low
as I can.”
Wright figures his average
com yield last year was
about 100 bushels to the acre,
held back somewhat
perhaps, by the fact that he
didn’t get it planted as early
as he’d have liked. He has
gone as high as 186 bushels
on some of his best corn
ground. Grain bins on the
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tically all of Wright’s corn
crop. This storage capacity
can be a big plus in getting
past the price dip that
always occurs during har
vest. But some years, it Just
doesn’t pay a fellow to hold
on too long.
“This year I was too
stubborn to sell for $3.45 a
bushel, so I waited until it got
to $3.10, then I sold,” Wright
said. The corn crop is
generally sold over a four to
five month period to feed
mills in York and Get
tysburg.
The peas and beans Wright
grows are very low imput
enterprises. He supplies the
fertilizer, and he plants
them, but the cannery which
buys his output supplies the
seed and they also harvest
the crop. Wright’s contract
with the cannery guarantees
him a defmite return on each
acre. This is an especially
attractive deal, Wright feels,
because these leguminous
crops don’t need any
nitrogen fertilizer, only
phosphorus and potash.
Seed barley is grown under
a contract for another local
firm. “I like the barley crop
because I only have to hold it
for a- month, and I get 50-
cents a bushel over the
market price when I take it
in to my customer,” Wright
said.
His cropping scheme
means Wright runs the
planter through some fields
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three times a year. A typical
schedule would be planting
peas the end of March,
followed by limas in June
after the peas arc taken off,
followed by barley in Sep
tember after the limas go to
the cannery. The barley,
then, would be harvested the
following June. Besides
getting maximum use from
his ground, Wright is
getting the benefit from the
nitrogen which is left after
the peas and beans are
harvested. He figures he
saves $4O an acre by not
having to fertilize his small
grains.
Shirley Wright is a big help
in the farming business.
She’s on the road helping to
transport machinery, she
does a lot of the errands and
Pat Krall
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coordinating 4-H work in the
county, recruiting new 4-H
members and leaders along
with aiding in other farm
youth related programs.
Miss Krall attended
Susquehanna University
majoring in music and
graduated from Millersville
State College in December
1974 with a degree in
elementary education and
special education.
The Lebanon County miss
was active in 4-H work for 10
years, being a member of the
Cedar Crest Dairy Club and
the Fhntville Home
Economics Club. She at
tended National 4-H Club
Congress in 1970 as a winner
in the dairy goods program
and was active in the
Lebanon County 4-H 'Teen
Council. In addition to her 4-
H program and has coor
dinated the Lebanon Area
Fair. In 1972 she served as
the Lebanon County Dairy
Princess and will be the
chairman of that event for
this coming season.
Miss Krall graduated from
Cedar Crest High School,
where she was active in the
music program, serving as
accompanist for the choir
and various musicals. She
was a member of the
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keeps the farm records and
the tax book.
Mrs. Wright is also her
husband's biggest booster in
his favorite hobby - tractor
pulling. Wright’s souped-up
IH 1066 was a familiar sight
on tracks around Penn
sylvania this year. And he
frequently won his events.
He also competed against
some of the nation’s top
tractor pullers in
Harrisburg, Canada, In
dianapolis and Louisville.
Wright has every reason to
be optimistic about the
future. At an age when many
people are just thinking
about getting started, he has
been successful at his chosen
work. The one note of con
cern he voiced was for the
disappearing land.
“Developments keep
National Honor Society, the
yearbook staff and the
Medical Careers Club.
As a member of the Tabor
United Church of Christ,
Miss Krall also directs the
children choir and plays the
organ.
As youth extension agent.
Miss Krall will be working
with Alletta Schadler, Cheryl
Reitz, Denis Hoke and
Newton Bair in the Lebanon
Extension Service located in
the Municipal Building at 400
S. Eighth St., Lebanon.
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eating away at the available
land, and there seems to be
less of it around every year.
But we shouldn’t have too
much trouble getting land
for pretty many years to
come. And if we ever have to
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stick to just the 196 acres we
own, we could always go to
chickens or hogs.”
Or dairy, we suggested.
“No, I don’t think milking
goes too well with tractor
pulling,” Wright replied.
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