D32—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 26,1981 COLUMBIA, Mo. “Timing is everything when it domes to managing pests. J “And the weather-monitoring network we’re developing, plus the integrated pest management program, will give us juit the one two punch we need to do the job,” said Rodney Ward, University of Missouri-Columbia research en tomologist. So far, the weather network includes 34 stations across Missouri and 24 more ( stations in nine surrounding states—all gathering whether data to be fed into a computer. Ultimate goal: Use weather to hit pests, weeds and diseases when and where it hurts. Wayne Decker, chairman of the UMC Department of Atmospheric Science, and Mitchell Roof, coordinator of the UMC extension '"Sgr Afe W PERRY COUNTY 4-H AND FFA* LIVESTOCK SALE MEMBERS WISH TO THANK THESE BUYERS FOR THEIR SUPPORT AT THE ANNUAL LIVESTOCK SALE GRAND CHAMPION STEER Exhibitor: Andy Zeigler Buyer; Juniata Concrete, Newport FFA GRAND CHAMPION SWINE Exhibitor: Chris Hess Buyer: Hatfield Packing Co. Hatfield, PA COMMONWEALTH NATIONAL BANK New Bloomfield,Pa CAMPBELL S GROCERY Ickesburg, Pa JUNIATA CONCRETE Newport. Pa PAUL E. SHOVER & SONS Loysville. Pa. HATFIELD PACKING CO. Hatfield, Pa. KREIDERS MILL Loysville, Pa LYTERS AUTOPARTS New Bloomfield. Pa W&K FORD MERCURY New Bloomfield. Pa HENRY’S MEAT MARKET Duncannon, Pa COUNTRY BUTCHER Carlisle. Pa MUTZABAUGH'S SLAUGHTER HOUSE Duncannon, Pa KEISTER'S MIDDLEBURG AUCTION Middleburg, Pa NORTH MOUNTAIN BUTCHER SHOP Newville. Pa LESTER NACE Duncannon. Pa DIX HILL FARM New Bloomfield, Pa H R. GUTSHALL & SONS Loysville Pa Experts use weather to control crop pests Integrated Pest Management Program, are working with Rodney Ward and the National Weather Service to forecast when pest problems are likely and to tell farmers the best time to take action. “The computerized weather monitoring network plus pest scouting services by private consultants, agribusiness cooperatives or farm families themselves will really help us stay on top of pests,” Ward said. The network will have two completely automatic university operated weather collecting stations, one at Linneus and another outside Columbia. These two stations will record hourly and daily soil temperature at the four inch depth (bare soil), tem perature five feet above the ground, wind velocity and direc- 4-H GRAND CHAMPION SWINE Exhibitor; Staci Smith Buyer; Kreiders Mill, Loysville PA < *PL GRAND CHAMPION LAMB Exhibitor: Treva Whitmoyer Buyer: Commonwealth National Bank, New Bloomfield LESH MOTORS Newport, Pa LOCUST POINT QUARRIES Mechanicsburg, Pa FICKES SILO’S Newville. Pa DALE McGUIRE INSURANCE Duncannon Pa FIRST NATIONAL BANK Newport. Pa LANCASTER STOCKYARDS c/o WALTER M. DUNLAP Lancaster, Pa FIRST NATIONAL BANK of LOYSVILLE 1 Loysville, Pa SHEAFFER - WEARY CHEVROLET Loysville Pa HERMAN KRAFT JR. Newport Pa SMITH FEED MILLS Newport & Slain Pa SOUDERS FEEDS GRAIN Mechanicsburg Pa HELLERS MACHINE SHOP Newport Pa KENNETH CRAMER Newport Pa mcmillan bros. silos Loysville Pa SMITH LUMBER Newport Pa LESTER FLEISHER Newport Pa tion, rainfall, relative humidity, solar radiation, soil moisture, and leaf wetness. These and the other stations will be tied into a computer which will have information about the maturity and stages of insects and crop growth phenology (natural phenomena that affect plant and insect life cycles). “In a year like this one, phenology, becomes very im portant. With the mild winter and warm dry conditions turning to a cool, wet spring, this has been a fantastic year for insects,” Ward said. “In some cases where we depended on natural controls to Vonp pests in ch or> k, wpafhcr got them out of sync and Mother Nature didn’t get the job done. ” Ward said that insects, just like plants, slow or speed up biological Red Poll participation with a Kentucky National Show and Sale marks the second year the breed has been part of the internationally known NAiLE. z Machine Work I Welding & * inflHr Farm Supplies I I Hardware p ' j D.S. MACHINE SHOP DAVID E. STOLTZFUS 3816 E. 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