Livestock market and auction news
Pa. Auction
Summary
November 23,1979
CATTLE 3124. Compared
to 4490 head last week and
3733 head a year ago.
Compared with last uneven
market, slaughter steers
Choice & Prune mostly $1
higher. Standard & Good
unevenly steady. SI. heifers
uneven. SI. cows mostly
steady, spots $1 lower on
Utility & Commercial. SI.
bullocks sl-$2 higher SI
bulls steady to $1 higher
High Choice & Prune si.
steers YG 3-4 69.00-72.00;
Choice YG 2-4 66.00-70.00
Good 60.00-67.00 Standard
57.00- Choice si. heifers
63.00- Good 55.0062.00.
Standard 50.00-56.00. Utility
& Commercial si. cows 47.00
52.50, Cutters 46.00-50.50.
Canner & L. Cutter 42.00
47.00. Shells down to 33.00.
Choice si. bullocks 66.00
73.00. Good 62.00-67.00, few
Standard 57.00-62 00. Utility
Yield Grade #l,lOOO-2100 lbs.
58.00- Yield Grade #2,
900-1575 lbs. 52.00-64.00.
FEEDER CATTLE
Choice Medium & Large
Frame No. 1 300500 lbs.
steers 65.00-89.00, few down
to 55.00. Medium Frame No.
1 500-800 lbs. 52.00-67.00.
Good heifers Medium Frame
No. 1 & 2 500-750 lbs. 48.00
57.00. Medium & Large
Frame No. 1 300600 lbs
58.00- Good bulls, few
Medium & Large Frame 500
800 lbs. 52.00-68.00
CALVES 2508. Compared
to 3169 head last week and
2663 head a year ago.
Vealers steady to $3 higher.
Few Prime vealers 105.00-
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Lots of good Northern Feeders and Stockers.
SALE EVERY FRIDAY
Bulls, Steers, Slaughter Cows,
Lambs and Veal Calves
11:00 A.M. - Beef Sale Stockers & Feeders
200 to 250 each week.
12:30 P.M.- Dairy Cows
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farm or at our barn or other market information
call: Office 717-733-2444.
WALTER H. RISSER, Proprietor
121.00, Choice 100.00115.00,
Good 90.00105.00; Standard
& Good 90120 lbs. 85.0095.00,
7090 lbs. 70.0089.00, Utility
50100 lbs. 50.0075.00
FARM CALVES: Steady
to weak. Hoi. Bulls 90120 lbs.
100.00128.00, few down to
85.00, Hoi. Heifers 85-150 lbs.
100.00200.00, few down to 85.
HOGS 6307. Compared to
5504 head last week and 5884
head a year ago. Barrows
and gilts mostly $1,002.50
higher US No. 1-2 200240
lbs. barrows & gilts 39.50
41.50, few 42.85, No 1-3 200-
250 lbs. 38.5040.50; No. 2-3
190260 lbs 37.0038.50, few
No. 1-3 140190 lbs. 30.00
35 00. SOWS uneven. US No.
1-3 300575 lbs. sows 27 OO
34.00, No. 2-3 300650 lbs.
25.0030.00, BOARS 23.00
28.75.
FEEDER PIGS 1428
Compared to 1832 head last
How to use
garden mulch
MEDIA - Mulches can be
apphed anytime, but the best
tune to mulch is from late
summer on through the
autumn months, advises
James J. McKeehen,
Delaware County Extension
Agricultural Agent.
The use of mulches dates
back to the beginning of
agncluture. They’ve helped
soil in a number of ways
they reduce and slow down
runoff and erosion, conserve
moisture through reducing
evaporation, maintain soil
structure and modify soil
temperature, add plant
nutrients and increase
week and 1247 head a year
ago. Most $l-1.50 lower. US
No. 1-3 20-35 lbs. feeder pigs
5.00-15.00 per head, No. 1-3
35-59 lbs 15 00-30.50, No. 1-3
50-75 lbs 30.00-39.00.
GRADED FEEDER PIGS
2764. ALL SALES '
Compared with 207 a neaa
last week, and 3455 head a
year ago. Feeder pigs
mostly $2-9 higher. US No. 1-
2 30-40 lbs. 64.00-75.00, 40-50
lbs 62.00-73.00, 50-60 lbs.
55.00- 60-80 lbs 47.00-
59.00; US No 2-3 25-40 lbs.
51.00- 40-50 lbs. 41.00-
55.00,50-65 lbs 31.50-44.00.
SHEEP 299. Compared to
346 head last week and 453
head a year ago Wooled si.
lambs uneven, spot $2 higher
to $5 lower. Choice 60-110 lbs.
55.00- Good 50-100 lbs.
50.00- Slaughter ewes
13.00-
biological activities in the
soil.
Mulching materials are
easy to fmd. Crop residues,
sawdust or woodchips, tree
bark, manure, compost, and
stone or gravel can all be
used as a mulch around
shrubs and m gardens. For a
lawn mulch, such materials
as grass hay, straw or
cheesecloth are recom
mended. The fme texture
and weed/seed free nature of
salt hay is a special plus.
Mulching in gardens is
best done where you raise
vegetables or rows of
flowers. Weeds are easier to
pull out and often prevent
seeds from germinating.
To mulch a newly seeded
lawn, use salt hay at the rate
of one bale for each 2,500
square feet. Mulching
materials should be spread
evenly.
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2213 Leabrook Road, Lancaster, PA 17601
Ph; 717-898-8354 or 569-6576
Rotate tillage programs
for better weed control
JAMES V. PAROCHETTI
Science and Education
U.S. Department of
Agriculture
WASHINGTON, D.C. -
Rotating corn land from a
reduced or no-tillage to a
conventional tillage
program makes good weed
management sense. The fact
is, crop rotation is good
management even if no
plowing is done.
There are tunes when
periodic moldboard plowing
every three to five years
should be considered. It
helps to mu the soil, keep
perennial weeds m check
and bury high numbers of
weed seeds that tend to
build-up on the surface with
no-tillage and reduced
tillage.
Com growers can reduce
weed seed populations and
get better performance from
the wider variety of preplant
and preemergence her
bicides available for con
ventional tillage com.
By conventionally tilling, a
grower can use preplant
incorporated herbicides
such as Sutan-f and
Eradicane, or preemergence
herbicides such as Dual or
Lasso.
Properly incorporated
herbicides are usually more
consistent then surface
applications. Generally,
higher rates of Dual or Lasso
will be needed when in
corporating.
Problem Weeds
Some weeds, particularly
fall' pamcum, yellow nut
sedge and tnazme resistant
redroot pigweed, (common
in the Shenandoah Valley,
Western Maryland and
South Central Penn
sylvania), are becoming
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increasingly difficult to
control in no-tillage and
minimum tillage com.
Many growers have
contmued to use standard
herbicides in reduced or no
tillage programs-because
these are used successfully
in conventional com.
But weed pressures in no
tillage or reduced tillage
have become too great and
some grassy and
broadleaved perennials and
annuals have gone out of
control.
These high seed
populations, on or near the
soil surface in reduced or no
tillage com, will sprout next
year. Research at the
University of Nebraska has
shown that higher weed seed
populations will require
higher rates of herbicides for
thorough control.
To correct this costly
situation, growers should
moldboard plow, every three
to five years, to bury weed
seed below their ger
mmating zone.
Chisel plows and discs will
also bury weed seeds, but not
deep enough to stifle ger
mination and to assist
herbicide performance.
Perennial weeds continue
to mcrease m population m
reduced and no-tillage fields.
Common broadleaved
perennials mclude hemp
dogbane, milkweed,
brambles and brushy weeds;
grassy or grass-like
perennials mclude john
songrass, quackgrass,
yellow nutsedge and
bromesedge.
Moldboard plowing,
preferably in fall if erosion is
not a problem, will severely
injure these perennials by
breaking up roots and the
root-like reproductive
organs.
Fall plowing will also
make personal weeds more
vulnerable to wmterkiil
especially johnsongrass.
Furthermore, the reduced
vigor of these grasses will
make them more susceptible
to treatments from Sutan+
andEradicane.
There are no effective
preplant or preemergence
herbicides available to
control perennial
broadleaved weeds in corn.
Therefore, a postemergence
apphcation of Banvel or
Banvel with 2,4-D should be
used.
Herbicides that control
grassy perennials vary.
For quackgrass, atrazme
or Eradicane plus atrazme is
effective; for johnsongrass,
Eradicane has proven to be
the most consistent.
Nutsedge can be con
trolled with Sutan+; less
effective preemergence
nutsedge treatments mclude
Dual and Lasso.
A postemergence ap
plication of Basagran or
atrazme will also control
r HARVEY Z. MARTIN
| For More Information z
Phone: 215-445-5303 I
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 24,1979
HAY AND STRAW SALE
WILL BE DISCONTINUED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
HOWEVER, WE WILL STILL BUY HAY
& STRAW PRIVATELY AND ON ORDERS.
nuts edge; however, preplan!
and preemergence treat
ments are preferred because
unchecked competition
during early stages of crop
development will cause yield
reduction.
Mix the soil
Not only does moldboard
plowing bury a large build of
weed seeds, but plowing also
mixes the soil. In continuous
no tillage, the soil surface pH
decreases and the organic
matter increases; both have
a dramatic effect on her
bicide performance.
Maintaining optimum pH
in the surface soil is ex
tremely important m getting
the most out of the triazine
herbicides such as atrazine,
Princep and Bladex.
Where nitrogen fertilizers
are being applied to the soil
surface, sometimes for two
or more years without lime
or tillage, the pH can
decrease to 5.5 or less during
the growing season.
When the pH in the surface
soil falls below 5.5, reduced
activity from the triazines
can be expected.
Therefore, no-tillage com
growers should sample the
top two inches of soil for a pH
test and continue liming to
maintain a pH above 6.2 for
best triazine activity.
Plowing will mix the acid
soil surface with soil having
a higher pH, but lime will
still be needed.
Organic matter content of
a soil can increase either
through continuous no
tillage or manure ap
plications.
While this increase can be
advantageous, both from a
fertility and moisture
holding capacity, herbicidal
activity can be reduced.
Soil samples should be
taken from the top two in
ches of the soil and organic
matter should be determined
where a buildup might be
expected.
Many of our soils contain 2
to 2.5 percent organic matter
and most herbicide labels
recommend increased rates
when the organic matter
exceeds 3 percent.
Soil sampling and ad
justing herbicide rates based
on organic matter content
can be helpful in obtaining
good weed control m no
tillage com production.
Plowing will mix the
organic matter that might be
accumulating on the soil
surface.
Better weed control
Weed control in no-till com
requires better management
than for conventionally tilled
com. The following checklist
should help no-tillage com
growers get better weed
control.
Moldboard plow problems
fields. Plowing helps to bury
weed seeds and break up
oerenmal weeds. Do not
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