A36—Lancaster FarminCr Saturday, March 27,1982
It takes a continuing conservation commitment
BY DICK ANGLESTEIN
MANHEIM - Seated at the
kitchen table of the stately, brick
farmhouse at R 2 Manheim, Albert
Breneman has a panoramic view
of the surrounding countryside.
Off to the right, traffic scoots
along Rt. 283, some slowing to exit
off the Mt. Joy-Manheunramp.
Off to the left, farm fields, still
brown and awaiting the true ag
arrival of spring, stretch nearly to
the horizon.
It’s a great view. But that
elevated pastoral perch, that falls
away to sloping fields that once
again will be checkered with
alternate strips of com and alfalfa,
requires a continuing commitment
of man and machine to modem soil
conservation practices.
And it’s for such a conservation
commitment, that extends back
over the past decade or more and
will continue on into the future,
that Breneman and his wife, Mary
Jane, were honored this week by
the Lancaster Conservation
District.
Albert Breneman, R 2 Manheim, pauses
amidst morning chores involving Holstein herd
on family farm near the Mount Joy-Manheim
exit off Rt. 283.
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Pointing out the window,
Breneman recalls.
“The low area down below used
to be a pasture. I can remember
chasing cows down there everyday
as a kid.”
Now, the lower section of the
large field contributes its fair
share of com to the feed ration for
the Breneman Holstein herd.
“We always had a problem with
washing,” he contmued.
“I can remember one time that it
was so bad after a hard ram that I
got a bulldozer to haul some of the
ground back up to the higher
ground.
“But that got pretty expensive
quickly.
“It was nothing to have gullies
about a foot - plow depth - deep
washed out by the running water.”
Today, instead of gullies and
rushing torrents of surface water
every now and then, a network of
waterways, sod diversion terrace
and six crop terraces are laced
across the sloping, 40-acre hillside.
The approximate two-mile
This sloping hillside field features sod - crop terraces on jrt .eneman
diversion terrace, in foreground, and a series R 2 Manheim, shown in background.
terracing-system, not only saves
the life-blood topsoil of the farm.
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cropping practices and produc-
tivity of the face-lifted land.
The system, that includes a pipe
drain area in the final terrace, had
to be tied into an old tile and stone
drain section - remnant of con
servation efforts of the past.
“We found the old tile line and
stone drams when the new pipe
dram was installed,” Breneman
explained.
“With some 40 acres on that
slope, a lot of water runs off that
large an area.
“Now, there’s very little erosion
and the crop population is much
better.
“Before, the grades would wash
out and the bottom would fill m.”
Breneman also updated the
farm’s' manure management
practices m keepmg with the
modernized soil conservation
program.
“We also had a problem in the
past with manure runoff,” he said.
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“We used to spread daily and"
utilized a liquid tank. But, it had to
be hauled every 30 days, too. {
“Once, I remember we had to
haul on top of the snow.
“Well, it turned warm and the
manure started to move out of the
field.”
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management system features a
Slurrystore, which permits
spreading only every six months.
The Breneman commitment to.
conservation is not ending with the
terrace and waterway system on
the mam home farm with its 75-
cow milking herd.
A second farm, located about a
mile or so away, was recently
acquired for young stock. It has
slopes even greater than the home
farm. -
Specific planning will begin soon
on a conservation program that
will likely include about eight
terraces in three different fields.
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