A36—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 9,1982 Pa. No-till (Continued from Page Al) which must be initiated by the farm sector. “If we let the public force their opinions on us, we probably won’t like what we get,” noted Bauer. However, the NACD president did have words of hope and promise. “We face a future that will test our skills and ingenuity, but I am confident,” he stated. “American farmers are among the most adaptable segments of our country.” J.R. Miller, chairman of the Agronomy Department at the University of Maryland expanded grown continuously as compared reaches a height of 30 inches on the conference’s theme of crop to soybeans grown in a three-year “Letting the rye grow too tall rotation and no-till. rotation of corn, soybeans and may rob the soil of moisture that is “Crop rotations are not old- wheat. needed for the corn crop,” he said, fashioned and are a sound According to Miller, research No-till corn is often planted into agronomic practice that should and farm experience have shown alfalfa, red clover or perennial receive top priority in fanning that under continuous cropping grass sods and many mid-Atlantic operations in the mid-Atlantic with one crop that weeds are much livestock tarms retied this type ot area,” Miller said. more difficult to control than when cropping system. The agronomist listed several a cropping system is followed with “There is no doubt that the no benifits derived from effective the production of different crops. tillage system has brought about a crop rotation: better distribution In the Piedmont and Mountain revolution in the production of of workload; spread weather risk; Regions of Maryland, triazine crops,’’Millerannounced, improved-soil structure; improved resistant redroot pigweed has With no-tili; only % the amount weed control; improved crop become a serious problem on a of labor and 1/6 the amount of fuel yields; greater dollar return per number ot farms producing corn, are required for the production of a acre. The use ot a rotation which in- corn crop. In addition, there is less “Time is money and it is im- eludes more than one crop along soil erosion with no-till and more portant to have crop rotations in with a good herbicide program, acres of land have been made your farming operation that will said Miller, will help to eliminate available for the production of result in better distribution of your this serious weed problem. com, soybeans and forage, said workload,” Miller explained. Miller recommended a cover Miller. Miller also pointed out that a crop in cases where continuous no- “The question now arises as to one-crop system with unfavorable tillage com is to be grown. Rye is what we can do to improve no weather conditions can spell the best small grain cover crop due tillage crop production in the disasterinjustoneyear. to its winter hardiness and future,” he noted. Continuous cropping with a one- tolerance of triazine carryover. In The developement of multi crop system such as soybeans will addition, rye produces an excellent cropping and crop rotations offers result in a very poor soil structure mulch for no-tillage com, Miller great potential for improved weed and low yields. Miller reported on said. control, improved soil structure, research trials at the University of When using rye for a cover crop, unproved used of nitrogen fer- Maryland which resulted in a 14.9 Miller stressed the importance for tilizer, higher crop yields and percent reduction of soybeans in a killing the rye with a recom- increased profit from each acre, three to six-year time period when mended herbicide by the time it concluded Miller. EARLY ORDER SALE ON BALER TWINE & BINDER TWINE. 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