A3o—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 16,1980
NEWARK, Del. - In less
than a month harvest of
early com will begin. It may
seem like pushing the season
a bit, but it’s tune to think
about cover crops and how
they’ll fit into your tillage
plans for next year.
Will you use covers in all
your fields, or just following
early harvested com? Will
you plant a legume cover to
capture some low cost
nitrogen during the fall and
SHERWOOD, Md. - The
Honorable Peter J. Nixon,
Minister of Primary In
dustries! Australia, was a
guest of Langdon Farms,
Sherwood, Maryland during
his recent visit to the United
States
Accompanied by his wife,
Sally, the Nixons toured the
Simmental breeding farm
and departed admittedly
enthusiastic about the
Simmental, breed and the
accomplishments of the
foundation cows and their
offspring which comprise
the Langdon herd.
Discussions have begun
regarding the Nixon’s
purchase of a Langdon Farm
two-year-old bull.
A knowledgeable cat- Tu u . , _ . , ...
tleman, Nixon maintains 1 Honorable Peter J. Nixon, Minister of Primary Industries of Australia (left)
both dairy and beef breeding visits with William Miller, owner of Langdon Farms.
herds in his native Australia.
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It’s time to plan cover
spring months?
These are just a few of the
questions farmers should be
asking themselves now. savs
University of Delaware ex
tension agronomist Bill
Mitchell.
Diesel fuel will cost more
next year, so no-tillage may
be in your future as you try
to conserve energy, he notes.
“If you’re thinking no
bllage, my experience would
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suggest that you can’t im
prove on hauy vetch as a
cover crop.’’
He bases his opinion on the
excellent results some
Delaware farmers have
achieved with this program.
Stands and weed control
have been outstanding
where com was planted into
a heavy crop of hairy vetch
last spring.
The leaf color on plants
testifies too that the fact thev
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have an abundant supply of
slow release nitrogen
working for them in this
cover.
"I wish there was a fool
proof method of obtaining a
stand of hairy vetch,” says
Mitchell.
Sometimes it appears as
easy as throwing seed at the
ground. Many have had good
results with aerial seedmgs,
with and without disking the
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crops
stalk ground following
harvest. But occasionally
these methods don’t work so
well.
The best stands he’s seen
have resulted from use of a
gram drill at seeding rates of
20 to 23 pounds per acre.
However you plant vetch,
most of its growth will be
made next spring. To allow
maximum time for spring
growth, though, this cover
needs to be planted following
the first harvested com in
the fall on ground that will be
last planted to corn in the
spring.
The optimum time for
planting no-tillage com in a
vetch cover is May 1 to 10.
Vetch seed is currently
priced at about 65 cents a
pound. This has encouraged
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possibility of producing seed
locally.
He has grown small fields
of the legume at Georgetown
and Newark with yields of up
to 500 pounds per acre,
cleaned seed. At Newark the
vetch was wmdrowed when
dew was on plants to avoid
shattering. When direct
harvest was made at
Georgetown without taking
this precaution, shattering
losses were high.
If Paraquat is used to kill
it, vetch harvest can be
started about July 1 and the
area double cropped with
soybeans. This could be an
attractive cropping system
for someone interested in the
local production of vetch
seed, notes the agronomist.
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