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Southwest because it is
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ulture.”
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mean farmers are the
segment of the U.S.
any which has shown
ased production ef
cy in the last decade.”
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BALTIMORE, Md. -
Baltimore county’s Hereford
high school FFA chapter
narrowly earned top honors
in Maryland’s 1979 official
com yield contest with a
mark of 187.57 bushels per
acre.
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were three entries from the
upper Eastern Shore:
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Centreville, Queen Anne
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second at 187.5 bushels per
acre;
Olan H. Simpkins, 17, of
Millington, Kent county,
placed third with 187.0
bushels per acre;
Michael C. Cohey of
Chestertown, Queen Annes
county, was fourth with
186.2.
Alan W. Baynard of Trape,
Talbot county, placed fifth at
181.15 bushels per acres. He
and the other winners have
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been honored at banquets
during the past two months
for achievements within
their respective county com
yield contests.
The official state com
yield contest has been
conducted since 1952 as part
of the crop improvement
programs of the Extension
Service at the University of
Maryland in College Park.
Yield measurements are
supervised bv Extension
agricultural agents in
participating counties, and
awards to state winners are
presented each year by the
Maryland Crop Im-
Md.
UPPER MARLBORO,
Md. Southern Maryland’s
tobacco farmers can lay
claim to the oldest exporting
tradition in the state and
figures for fiscal 1979 show
that $15,679,000 of then- prize
leaf was exported.
This represented an
almost $2 million increase
from the year before period
but did not exceed the $l7
million Maryland tobacco
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BAER’S GARAGE INC.
2407 Marsh Pike
Hagerstown, MD
(301) 733-8226
Oakland Mills, PA
(717 J 463-2735
provement Association.
An official state soybean
yield contest is operated m a
similar manner.
The 1979 state com and
soybean yield champions
will be honored during an
evening banquet on
February 26 in the
Tidewater Inn at Easton.
Those awards will be
presented m conjunction
with the seventy-third an
nual meeting of the
Maryland Crop Im
provement Association.
This is the fifth con
secutive year that a
Baltimore cou"*y
tobacco exports rise during 1979
shipments overseas
recorded in fiscal 1977.
Ronald L. Johnson,
Director of the Maryland
Department of Agriculture's
Division of Marketing
commented on the tobacco
export figures noting,
“American agriculture has
set an all time record of $32
billion m exports m fiscal
1979 resulting m a net
for the farm.
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RDI, Cogan Station, PA
(717)435-2921
Rt 31 at Church St
Flemington, NJ
(201)782-3514
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 19,1980—C25
representative has won the
annual state com yield
contest. And it is the fourth
time m those five years that
the winning entry was
produced by the no-tillage
method.
The top five producers in
the 1979 official state yield
contest achieved field
populations averaging 22,360
com plants per acre at
harvest time.
They applied an average
of 131 pounds of nitrogen per
acre to their contest fields
during the growing season,
and all used at least three
different pesticides for
agriculture trade surplus of
$15.8 billion.
“These export earnings
from the farm benefit the
entire American economy by
helpmg earn the money
needed to pay for such vital
imports as oil. Agriculture,
as exemplified by the
tobacco farms right here in
Maryland, leads the way
when it comes to positive
economic news on the world
trade front,” Johnson
■ concluded..
The quantity of Maryland
tobacco exported for the
fiscal 1979 period, according
to figures compiled by
USDA, was 3486 metric tons
which at 2200 pounds per ton,
translates into 7,669,200
pounds which is a more
familiar measurement to
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chemical control of weeds,
and soil insects.
Row widths averaged
slightly less than 33 mches,
and three of the top five
utilized 30-inch spacing
between rows.
With a cool, damp spring,
the average planting date for
the top five entries was May
The official Maryland
state corn yield record has
stood since 1965. That mark
is 207.59 bushels per acre. It
was set by an Eastern Shore
partnership which included
Edward H. Boyd of Wye
Mills.
tobacco growers on the
farm.
Maryland tobacco, known
all over the world as “Type
-32”, is the state’s oldest
exported product, having
moved in foreign trade since
the state’s founding m 1633.
Some 13 foreign countries
were listed as destinations
for the FY 79 Maryland
tobacco shipments: Swit
zerland, Ecuador, West
Germany, Belgium-Luxen
bourg and the Netherlands
being the five leading takers.
Other nations receiving
the tobacco during the
period were: Panama, the
Bahamas, the United
Kingdom, Denmark, Nor
way, France, Australia anc
New Zealand.