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corn, Croyle warns this type of
cultivation lends itself to an acid
soil crust m the upper 3 to 4 inches
This acidity impacts on seed
germination and affects the
beneficial action of herbicides,
especially atrazme which is
inactivated by low pH levels
Croyle recommends farmers
have at least a buffer pH test done
on their fields, for which he
charges $2.50 A complete soil test,
with nitrogen, phosphorus,
potassium, calcium, magnesium,
pH and buffer pH (used for
determining liming requirements)
costs $5
Croyle says he keeps his prices
reasonable by not hiring any
employees and by working 25
hours a day
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limited amount of capital, you
need to build up the size of the
business by offering the service at
a fair cost ”
Once established and with some
hired help, Croyle projects he may
get into some toxicology work and
will possibly investigate the
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"But right now I don’t want to
get too big and spread myself too
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When he does take a break from
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‘ The time is coming for the
dairyman,” Bucher said
‘‘And the other members of the
farming community are not going
to have a lot of compassion for
him ”
Bucher looked back on his, 17
years in ag lending and said the
past year brought the first farm
bankruptcy he’s ever seen
“This is something you’re going
to see more of in the future, too,”
he said
‘lt’s so easy for the young
farmer to go that way Often, he
pan walk away with more money
than he had in the beginning ”
The ag banker explained that
$15,000 is exempt off the top for a
husband and wife, along with items
as a personal car and household
furnishings
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In reply to a question, Bucher
said he did not expect wholesale
farm bankruptcies
Bucher explained that Com
monwealth has $65 million in
vested in farmers and has the
highest loan to deposit ratio in the
history of the bank
' problem is getting enough
money to keep these guys going,”
Bucher said
“We’re not looking for any new
customers ”
The Lancaster banking
executive pointed to one aspect of
the farm fiscal situation which has
held up There hasn’t been a
decrease in land prices
“As ag lenders try to keep far
mers in business, he said, ” we’re
going to be telling a lot more that
they’re going to have to sell off
part of that land ”
A number of the attending fer
tilizer dealers echoed the gloomy
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f'scal situation. They cited in
stances where farmers still owe for
last year’s fertilizer and are
coming back in for this year’s
needs
Bucher told the dealers that
farmers are probably going to be
leaning on suppliers as hard as
they can
In response to another question,
Bucher said that he expects the
Farmers Home Administration
will likely get out of direct farm
financing and be working more in
the future with the Farm Credit
system and banks
Bucher summed up the farm
fiscal situation
“I’ve gone through similar
periods before,” he said
“But then it used to be separate
segments, hogs one year and cattle
another year
“But it wasn’t the
whole farm economy, as
it is with livestock and
poultry tins tune ”
Several represen
tatives of Allied
Chemicals addressed
the dealers on such
topics as starter fer
tilizers, foliar fertilizer,
research and
development and the
outlook for the coming
year.
Concerning fertilizer
supplies and prices,
John Korman, District
Sales Manager, said
that he expects that the
phosphate situation has
peaked out and prices
should remain firm and
supplies adequate.
But it was a different
story for nitrogen.
“Supplies should be
adequate,” he said,
“but I guarantee
nothing concerning
prices ”
Manor
tobacco
talk
MILLERSVILLE -
The Penn Manor Young
Farmers presented a
Tobacco Rap Session
last week that proved to
be a large success
Guest speakers, John
Yocum of the Southern
Field Research Lab and
Steve Fisher of FMC
Corporation relayed
current and valuable
tobacco knowledge to all
of those attending
A topic of great in
terest was fungus
diseases, Blue Mold and
Anthracnose
John Yocum highly
recommended the use of
the preventitive spray
Ridomil (2*2 teaspoons
per every 300 square
feet) for Blue Mold, and
Furban, Lineb and
Maneb for Anthracnose
Yield-per-acre prod
uction was later
discussed during the
session A planting of
7500 to 8000 plants per
acre proves to be the
most effective If shed
space is a problem
farmers should
maintain 6000 plants per
acre
Of interest to all
tobacco producers was
the danger of applying
L)i-byston tor oohid
control and transfer
plus various othei
diseases Ureal caution
should be exercised
when handling Ui
bvslon 6kui contact
with Oi-Jjyslon can
i oiisc sev ei'e illness