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NEWARK. Del - To get
through the next crop year with a
profit, grain tanners must make
some top-notch management
decisions in the months ahead.
This means fine-tuning every
aspect of their operations.
‘We’re trying to show growers
how they can get the most out of
their production dollars, no matter
what cropping system they use,”
says University of Delaware
Extension agricultural agent Dave
Woodward. He’s on the planning
committee for the upcoming
Delmarva Com and Soybean
Conference, which takes place
Thursday, Feb. 3, at the Wicomico
Youth and Civic Center in
Salisbury, Md. Theme of this
years’s conference is ‘‘Back to
Basics.”
Close attention to detail will
improve growers’ chances for
success in 1963, Woodward says,
for example, in the area of soil
fertility, he advises taking careful;
samples, getting these tested and
then following recommendations
based on test results.
“University of Delaware fer
tilizer recommendations are based
on years of research and it pays to
follow them,” the Kent County
agent says. “If tests show you have
abundant potassium or
phosphorus, this is the year to
draw on these reserves, just as you
would money in a bank account If
you do need fertilizer, we suggest
you follow the university’s
placement recommendations-es
pecially with starter fertilizer.” In
other words, fine-tune your fer
tility program.
“For people with poultry and
livestock, we think this is the year
to have the manure tested and
calibrate your spreader,”
Woodward says. Pew farmers arp
doing this now, but it can pay off in
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considerable savings. ‘‘When the
manure is analyzed, you may find
that only four tons of wet cow
manure an acre, for example, will
supply the recommended
nutrients, instead of the 20 tons you
were planning to apply.” It may
also mean you don't have to buy
any extra fertilizer.
The first part of the program at
next month's Com and Soybean
Conference will deal with just such
economies, as a panel of experts
from Delaware, Maryland and
Virginia talk about “How to Get
the Most Out of Your Fertility
Dollar.”
Integrated pest management is
another way of cutting costs. This
approach to insect, disease and
week control is based on the
concept that you don’t apply
pesticides unless the problem is
already present at a letfel likely to
affect yield. “This permits you to
save money by not using materials
that aren’t needed to produce a
good crop,” Woodward says.
“Again, it boils down to doing a
better job of managing inputs -
getting back to.tbe basics.”
During the conference, two
Vienna, Md. farmers will tell how
they use pest management in their
farming operations. (
When it comes to selling their
grain, many growers could do a
much better job. “I think a lot of
people will spend time comparing
bids on their fertilizer and
pesticides to save a few bucks,”
Woodward says. They may be able
to save |S or so an acre doing this,
but when it comes to selling their
crops, they do a lot less shopping
around. “By knowing what it costs
to grow a bushel of com or
soybeans and then forward pricing
bawd on this, a farmer may be
able to make a much trigger
profit,” be says. “For example, if
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you can make 2S cents more on a
bushel of com by forward pricing,
at 100 bushels an acre you’ve made
•25 additional income.”
Two of the major speakers at the
conference will talk about grain
market decision'making. One of
them, Carl J. Heinisch, is vice
president of agri-finance at a bank
in DeKalf, 01. The other, W. Glenn
Tussey, assistant director of
national affairs for the American
Farm Bureau Federation, is an
authority on foreign trade.
COLLEGE FAKK, Md. - No
. tillage cultivation method* are
gaining popularity on Maryland'
farms, but research agronomists
are still writing the book there on
agriculture’s state-of-the-art
planting technique.
V. Allan Bandel, agronomist for
the University of Maryland
Agricultural Experiment Station
has received a $3,000 grant to
compare fertilizer application
methods in his three-year study of
-no-till versus conventional-till
cultivation in Maryland.
Although, researchers generally
agree no-till can outstrip con
ventional-till com yields under the
right conditions, they are still
experimenting with methods to
determine exactly what those
“right conditions’’ are, said
Bandel.
No-till is less labor-intensive
than conventional-till and involves
planting a crop directly into the
unplotved stubble of a previously
harvested crop. However, a no-till
crop generally requires some
additional nitrogen fertilizer and
herbicides to push yields above
those for conventional-till.
In this year’s test plots at MAGS’
Wye Research Center, Bandel said
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Planning will be critical this
year in all Ureas of production and
marketing, Woodward says. He
urges area fanners to attend the
conference so they can pick up
more ideas on how to make far
ming pay for them in 1963.
The meeting is sponsored by
Delmarva agribusinesses and the
Cooperative Extension Services of
Delaware, Maryland and Virginia.
It is open to everyone regardless of
race, color, sex, handicap, age or
national origin. Lunch tickets are
he will compare nitrogen fertilizer
application methods across both
methods of cultivation.
“We know that, under most
circumstances, dribbling nitrogen
fertilizer solution is better than
broadcast spraying,” said Bandel.
“And we know that injecting
nitrogen fertilizer solution is better
than broadcasting.
“But we don’t know how in
jection compares with dribbling,”
he said.
The comparison for Maryland
fanners, could be important, ac
cording to Bandel.
Supplies of fertilizer, especially
nitrogen, are becoming in
creasingly expensive.
Injecting nitrogen fertilizer is a
highly efficient method of ap
plication, according to Bandel.
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Doors will open at 8:30 a.m. for
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As an indication that this may be
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However, injection disturbs the
soil around crop roots and may
produce some adverse effects such
as topsoil erosion.
Dribbling fertilizer, on the other
hand, does not disturb precious
topsoil. And it places the nitrogen
solution closer to the plant roots
than broadcasting.
But, as its name implies, drib
bling takes time to “dribble” down
to the crop’s root system.
“What we have here is a series of
trade offs,” said Bandel.
“Our research this year may
help us determine which method
works better and costs the farmer
less,” he said.
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grant comes from the Delmarva
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