BlO—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 19,1080
HUNT VALLEY, Md. -
No-tillage farming can be
successful on any nor
theastern dairy farm where
the chief crops are com,
oats, and alfalfa, declared
Penn State Agronomist BiU
Maryland
ag week
ANNAPOLIS, Md. -
“Maryland Agriculture:
Food and Energy for
People” has been selected as
the slogan for the 1980
Maryland Agricultural
Week.
The slogan, suggested by
Kendra Buckel, was chosen
from approximately 100
entries submitted. Miss
Buckel is with the Mon
tgomery County Extension
Service.
This year’s “Ag Week”
will begin Monday,
February 4 at Salisbury Mall
in Wicomico County.
Traveling agricultural
displays mil be set up m the
local malls of five additional
Maryland counties on the
following dates:
Prince Georges County at
Laurel Centre - Feb. 11-16.
Baltimore County at
Westview Mall - Feb. 18-23.
Washington County at
Valley Mall - Feb. 25 -
March 1.
Frederick County at
Fredencktowne Mall -
March 3-8.
Montgomery County at
Montgomery Mall - March
10-15.
The public is invited to
view the displays free of
charge. The purpose of the
six-week tour is to pass in-
Corny fuel
COLUMBIA, Mo. One of
those cold, wmtery evenings,
picture yourself snuggled
around a stove fueled with
corncobs.
Corncobs’!
“Well, they’re inex
pensive, renewable, require
no sawing or splitting,
produce fewer ashes and
provide a cleaner fire than
wood does,” claims James
Pastoret, wood utilization
specialist at the University ‘
of Missouri.
How no-till farming keeps plantings timely
McClellan. He addressed known about a complete no
nearly 1000 farmers at- tillage system.” No-till
tending the Sixth Annual farming replaces plowing
Mid-Atlantic No-Till Con- with planters having soil
ference. cutting disks or coulters
He urged farmers to “take which prepare a narrow
advantage of what is already strip for placing the seed.
McClellan reported the
chief advantages of no-till
UJ.CS farming are control of
erosion, the ability to plant
instead of using time for
tillage, and minimum labor
and fuel.
Eastern farmers have
proved, he said, that they
can grow no-Ullage com,
soybeans, forage crops, and
small grams.
Timeliness of no-tillage
planting can be of utmost
benefit to farmers, he
pointed out.
No-tiU planting prevents
delays in seeding fields. In
conventional planting,
however, delays due to
weather and soil conditions
can disrupt the entire
planting operation.
Moreover, soil conditions
in no-till fields often allow
harvesting when con
ventionally tilled fields will
not support heavy har
vesting equipment, Mc-
Clellan noted.
Farmers attended from
Pennsylvania, Maryland,
Delaware, New Jersey,
Virginia, and West Virginia.
The Mid-Atlantic No-Till
Conference is sponsored
annually by the Extension
Services of the land-grant
universities in the six Mid-
Atlantic states.
Co-sponsorship and
financial support come from
related agribusiness firms
serving the Mid-Atlantic
area.
activities
formation from food
producers to consumers
about the role agriculture
plays m today’s world.
Chairwoman for the 1980
Ag Week program is Connie
Pams of Delmarva Poultry
Industry Inc. Committee
chairmen include Robert E.
Blades of Bayshore Foods in
Easton, finance; Jack I.
Matthews of the Maryland
Farm Bureau, dinner; Roy
D. Porter of the Maryland
Extension Service, exhibits;
and Susie J. Richburg of
Maryland Cooperative Milk
Producers in Baltimore,
publicity.
The 11-year-old activity is
sponsored by the members
of Maryland’s agriculture
industry. In addition to the
small exhibits, the
traditional legislative
banquet will be conducted
the second week of
February.
Those wishing to offer
ideas for or assistance
during Ag Week should
direct correspondence to
Maryland Ag Week Com
mittee, c/o Maryland
Agricultural Commission,
Parole Plaza Office
Building, Annapolis, Md.,
21401 or contact local Ex
tension agents in the par
ticipating counties.
this winter
“Of course, they produce a
fire that requires more
frequent attention because
they bum more rapidly. And
since fuel supply is not as
dense, storage can be a
problem.
“Corncobs bum unevenly
and very hot if you chuck the
box full,” he said. “That
could mean a chimney fire
“But there is no reason
you can’t use corncobs as
fuel. Just be careful ”
In no-till farming, only
herbicides are needed for
weed control, McClellan
stated. A com crop can be
followed with no-tillage oats
the succeeding year. Her
bicides with short-term
residues must be used on the
com field to prevent injury
to oats.
After removing oats for
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gram and harvesting the
straw, the farmer can put in
a no-till alfalfa seeding in the
oats stubble. Yields from a
com-oats-alfalfa rotation in
a no-till system are equal to
yields with conventional
tillage, it was pomted out.
John H. Koons, R 2
Waynesboro, described his
experiences with no-tillage
on a dairy farm. He said the
time and labor saved in
growing no-tillage com has
made it possible for him to
increase his acreage con
siderably and has provided
much added income without
creating any more work.
“All com on our farm is
planted no-till and we have
been planting no-till for eight
years,” he claimed. “The
biggest advantage no-tillage
has given us is the ability to
add 300 acres of rented
ground for producing com
and 400 acres of custom
planting.
“This provides added
income without greatly
increasing our time and
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eight years ago to plant 100
acres in the conventional
way,” Koons said.
He said 90 per cent of his
manure is handled as liquid.
He belives that liquid
manure and no-tillage com
“go hand in hand.” The 100-
acre home farm is grown to
silage com and these fields
get the manure.
All of Koon’s silage com
fields are seeded to rye
cover crops after the com is
harvested and removed. The
rye is killed m the spring
with herbicides and then
com is planted.
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“It is important that corn
planter soil-cutting disks or
coulters cut through the
manure crust to allow air
and sunlight to penetrate
down to the soil where the
corn is germinating. If this is
done properly, germination
and a good stand of seedlings
are assured,” he stated.
He also adds a ton or more
of lime per acre to all corn
ground each year, as long as
time and weather conditions
permit. This prevents the
soil from becoming acid and
allows herbicides to control
weeds effectively.
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