A22—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 10,1981
Some of the speakers of the 7th Annual Mid-Atlantic No-Till Conference in
cluded: from left Shirley Phillips, University of Kentucky; William Hinton, Berks
County; G.B. Triplett, Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center:
Donald Daum, Penn State Extension Engineer; and Willis McClellan, Penn State
Extension Agronomist.
No-till conference
(Continued from Page Al)
till to super-till, using crude
planting and cultivator
implements powered by man
and horse.
Several other experts on
no-till farming shared their
thoughts and advice with the
group
G B Triplett, Professor ot
Agronomy at the Ohio
Agricultural Research and
Development Center,
Wooster, Ohio discussed
tillage practices over the
years and the challenges of
the future A native of
Mississippi, Triplett has
been with the Ohio Ag Center
smce 1959 During those
years, hus research has been
in the area of crop
management, with emphasis
on developing the no-tillage
system for crop production
Shirley H Phillips, the
Assistant Director of Ex
tension for Agriculture at the
University of Kentucky,
reviewed the progress no-till
farming has made in the
past decade and some
promising practices of the
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And, V Allan Bandel,
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till farmers wrapped up the
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Cumberland County, Bruce
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Lancaster Farming will
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no-till from the conference
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