Corn-soybean field day
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“You must remember," he
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maturition days." "Some
areas need only 80 days to
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Johnson noted that the
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evaluated on an overall basis
including testing for yield
and growth.
Visiting the test plots of
soybeans was the next stop
on the tour, with Dick Cole
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leading the discussion.
Explaining the need for good
soil and moisture, Coie noted
that it had been difficult for
many farmers who raise the
commodity, to get it in
quickly enough this year.
“Because of the weather,
even getting corn in was
later this year," Cole ex
plained.
“Soybeans need to be in as
soon after May 1 as
possible."
Soybeans have become a
popular cash crop in this
Member NAL Affiliated Breeders
area with many farmora
either taking their crops to
Baltimore for export or
selling them for livestock
feed.
However, this year may
bring problems to those
farmers who raised an
oversupply, as the market
for the commodity is now
depressed. The combination
of a record oversupply from
last year (some 186 million
bushels) and the decrease in
use has become a concern
for many farmers.
Speaking on the soybean
market, Joh Yocum,
director of the research farm
commented, "yes, its true
that the soybean market has
become depressed.”
"Palm oil is becoming
cheaper to process then
soybean oil and anchovies
(small fish) are now more
popular as a source of
protein.” “Therefore, the
market has slipped.”
Asked whether or not the
depressed situation could
hurt the area farmers,
Yocum noted, “things could
very well change depending
on our exports to the Asian
countries.”
“The market may remain
low but more exports of
soybeans could really help.”
One relative of the
soybean, which received
much attention at the field
day was the mung bean plot.
Somewhat similar to the
soybean, the mung bean,
that originated in China, has
a high degree of protein.
While the mung bean crop
at the research farm did not
fair well, other plots of the
commodity planted
throughout the county did
respond to the southeastern
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used heavily by the Chinese
communities in the large
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Always a favorite topic of
either discussion or debate is
the question of whether in
secticides should be used on
a crop such as corn. Joe
McGahen, reported to the
group some of his findings,
comparing corn treated with
insecticides against non
nested entries.
McGahen noted that it was
still too soon to comment on
all the outcomes since
harvest was still sometime
away, but the Penn State
representative did disclose
that insecticides such as
furidan had helped in in
creasing the number of
viable plants in test plots.
"Whenever we talk about
using an insecticide, we’ve
got to look at a the en
vironmental impacts,”
McGahen stated.
“We’ve got to do a lot
more work with insecticides
before we reach ultimate
conclusions,” he noted.
McGahen chided farmers
for being in a haste to use
insecticides without really
looking at their crops.
“We just have gotten away
from the habit of walking our
fields and looking closely at
our crop,” McGahen noted.
“If we walked the fields
when the crops were
beginingto mature, we could
find trouble in time to really
halt it, but how many of us do
that anymore?” he
questioned.
McGahen answered
numerous questions from the
visitors on the use of in
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Dairymen enrolled in this
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insects, but using no-till
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Insects Run In
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Speaking on the problems
of insects, McGahen noted
that the flea bettle had been
of less trouble this year then
in previous years.
“Insects this season could
be worse next year.”
McGahen noted that now is
the time to locate weed
problems ir crop fields.
“Locate thoi » patches of
Johnson grass and weeds,
and try to eradicate them
before another season,” the
Penn State fieldman ex
plained.
“If they are here this year,
they’ll be back again.”
Plots of waxy com and
double-cropped soybeans
were viewed by many of the
visitors before the session
ended.
The com and soybean field
day was one in a series of
events held at the research
center this summer.
Tobacco and other crops had
been featured previously.
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