A2B—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 26,1980
Newest farm ideas shown
on Kent Connty farm tour
HARRINGTON, Del. -
Eighty local farmers had a
first-hand look at some of the
new practices being used on
agronomic and vegetable
crops in the area.
lliey took part in the
recent Kent County Crops
Tour, sponsored by the
University of Delaware
Cooperative Extension
Service and the agribusiness
community.
First stop on the tour was
Lake Forest High School,
where the FFA chapter,
working with the Extension
Service, had prepared
replicated plots featuring
various treatments on no-till
and conventional com and
soybeans.
At the Winkler Brothers
Farm near Harrington,
which features no-till com
and soybeans and irrigation,
growers paid special at
tention to the no-till planter
equipped with a squeeze
pump.
It is used to apply a dnbble
application of Poly-N starter
fertilizer along the sides of
rows.
At his farm near
Williamsville, Robert
Mmner uses dnp irrigation
with cantaloupes. He also
uses the drip system to apply
nitrogen fertilizer.
Moving on to the Kent
County Water Treatment
Plant, county agricultural
SSgnl, Dave -Woodward
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project in which sludge from
the plant is used as a
nitrogen source in com
production.
Earlier research on this
sludge by University of
Delaware Agricultural
Experiment Station
researcher William
Liebhardt has shown it to be
safe and effective on field
crops as long as it’s applied
at reasonable rates and the
soil pHjs not allowed to drop
too low.
Now Kent County has been
spreading or injecting the
sludge on interested far
mers’ land.
But since many farmers
have expressed interest in
using the sludge for
vegetable rather than field
crop production, Liebhardt
is now researching the ef
fects of sludge on vegetable
crops at the University’s
Georgetown Substation.
The last farm on the tour
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Delaware extension crops specialist Frank Webb descril
School FFA corn demonstration project to an audience of
personnel during the recent Kent County crops tour.
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county uses to inject sewage sludge into farmland. He described the project
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belongs to Charles Pasties,
Milford. There the group
looked at drop irrigation
under plastic for peppers,
cantaloupes, and honeydew
melons.
About half the group ended
the day by joining fanner
Vance Moms and his sons on
their boat, the Tradewinds,
for a trout fishing ex
pedition.
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