A22—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 19,1981
Conservation tillage adapts
HARRISBURG - “Con
servation tillage is rapidly
becoming an accepted
management technique tor winter
planting,” according to a Soil
Conservation Service spokesman.
“Because conservation tillage
leaves residue from previous crops
on the field, it involves less tillage
than conventional farming and
thus is an obvious advantage
because no-till requires no tillage
at all.”
GETTYSBURG A young farm
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For the wheat grower, this can
mean the early spring winds won’t
damage the wheat before it gets
well rooted. It can also mean the
soil surface holds more moisture in
a dry year for good crop growth,
greatly reducing soil erosion and
lowering cost for fuel and other
production inputs.
Conservation tillage also calls
for careful, flexible management,
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Adams Farm-Gty tour coining Oct. 7
manufacturer ot farm buildings
will be the feature stops on this
year’s Adams County Farm-City
Tour.
Sponsored by the Adams County
Agriculture Council and Get
tysburg Chamber of Commerce,
the tone .io m acquaint
business and agricultural leaders
with the county’s growing
agricultural industry. This year’s
tour will be held Wednesday,
October 7 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Tickets, which cost $12.00 per
person and include bus tran
sportation and lunch at Schottie’s
Restaurant, Littlestown, are
available at the Gettysburg
Chamber ot Commerce Office and
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to winter wheat planting
relatively easy to hookup a plow
and get rid of weeds. It is much
harder to select the right her
bicides and insecticides, and
decide when and how much to
apply.
Should a farmer, for example,
wait for rain to activate chemicals
or should he go ahead and in
corporate them in the tillage? Such
decisions have to be made on a
day-to-day and year-round basis.
Adams County Extension Service
Office. Buses will leave King’s
Parking Lot, Gettysburg at 10 a.m.
and return at 4 p.m.
Mark Widerman is a young
fanner raising sheep and laying
hens on a family farm near New
Chester. This operation utilizes
only family labor. In cooperation
with the USDA Soil Conservation
Service and Penn State Extension
Service, Mark has converted his
crop acreage to grass to solve
manure handling concerns. Sheep
have been added to diversify
sources of income while utilizing
grass fertilizer by the poultry
manure.
Hound Hill Foods, New Oxford,
features one of the most modern
One persistent problem with
conservation tillage is John
songrass. To keep Johnsongrass
out of fields, fanners use wick
applicators, carefully selected
herbicides, and other techniques to
overcome the weed. These and
other methods are helping con
servation tillage become more
widely adapted and adopted.
The types of soil in a field also
can make a difference in the tillage
turkey processing plants in the
United States. Tour participants
will see advances in turther
processing of turkey which has
lead to new turkey products. As a
result ot this business, Adams
County ranked first in Penn
sylvania and in the top 25 counties
in the nation in turkey production.
The final tour stop will be Morton
Buildings, Gettysburg. This
manufacturing plant opened this
summer in Adams County.
Buildings made by Morton are
used for livestock housing and
storage facilities.
Additional information on the
Adams County Farm-City Tour is
available by contacting the Adams
County Extension Service Office.
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The Challenger system is controlled by
neck-worn transponders which store feeding
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25 cows. May we show the surprising figures?
system needed, particularly if the
soils are high in clay content and
slow to warm up in the spring.
However, careful planting and
management can overcome this
limiting factor on most soils
suitable for cultivation. .
Weed stubble and other residue
left oh the ground also increase the
potential for plant, disease and
insects, so farmers need to monitor
their crops closely.
“The advantages of con
servation tillage are there are
many more farmers,” “If they are
willing to put in the management
effort needed.
By changing from full till to no
till, a farmer can cut fuel con
sumption by 50 percent or more
thereby reducing outlays for labor
and machinery.”
Another advantage lies in a
chance to boost a farmer’s
production by at least two ways.
First, erosion is reduced so much
that the farmer can grow crops
safely on land too sloping to be
cultivated conventionally. Second,
because of the time saved in
planting, conservation tillage
enables more farmers to begin
multi-cropping.
More than 55 million acres in the
United States were under con
servation tillage systems in 1980—
an average increase of about 5
percent a year for the last decade.