D22—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, March 5,1983
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - Once
. again, Talbot county farmers have
established that the land between
the Choptank and Wye rivers on
Maryland’s central Eastern Shore
is a great place to grow soybeans—
even without irrigation.
For the third time in the last four
years, a Talbot county grower has
been named Maryland soybean
,yield champion. And the first four
over-all placings in the 1982 official
state yield contest went to Talbot
County farmers. Three years
earlier, Talbot county growers
captured five of the top 10 placings.
George C. Towers, Denton, is the
1982 soybean champion with a
near-record yield of 69.4 bushels
per acre. He had tied for the state
championship in 1972 with 53.7
bushels per acre.
Towers was honored at Easton
during the seventy-sixth annual
meeting of the Maryland Crop
Improvement Association. He is a
Caroline county resident with
farming operations in Talbot
county.
Gustav A. Schlag of Wittman
was runnerup in the over-all state
standings with a yield of 68.0
bushels per acre. Both Schlag and
Towers had full-season Essex
soybeans planted in 38-inch rows
with conventional tillage on non-
Irrigated land.
Wesley R. Brown of Easton
placed third over-all with 67.8
bushels per acre of York soybeans
in 18-inch rows. He was first in the
state contest category for non
irrigated, no-till soybeans.
Patricia Councell, an FFA
member at Easton senior high
school, placed fourth in the over-all
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■ SX-810; 11 Bushels Above Average
■ SX-802:13 Bushels Above Average
■ SX-650; 8 Bushels Above Average
2nd PUCE ON STANDABIUIY:
4.5* Al wee Average
■ SX-520A: 14 Bushels Above Average
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Md.’s best soybean yield tops 69 bushels
standings with a yield of 67.5
bushels per acre. She had non
irrigated, no-till Essex soybeans in
18-inch rows. Miss Co uncell is-the
reigning Talbot county Farm
Queen.
Fifth-place over-all went to
Arthur W. Lankford, Jr., of
Pocomoke City, Somerset county,
with a yield of 65.3 bushels per
acre. Lankford had planted Union
soybeans in 7-inch rows. He was
named state winner in the
category for irrigated soybeans
grown under minimum or con
ventional tillage.
Last year, .Lankford was state
winner in the irrigated, no-till
category. That also involved Union
soybeans in 7-inch rows. The yield
was 62.2 bushels per acre'.
Sixth through tenth placings in
the 1962 state soybean yield contest
were as follows:
6. John H. Brown of Goldsboro,
Caroline County, 64.1 bushels per
acre;
7. Hutchison Brothers of Cor
dova, Talbot County, 61.4;
8. J. Ronnie Steenken of Fowling
Creek Farms at Harmony,
Caroline County, 61.3
9. James G. Saathoff of Ridgeiy,
Caroline County, 61.1
10. Maurice E. Collins and son of
Easton, Talbot County, 60.8
Collins won the state soybean
contest in 1979 with a yield of 62.2
bushelsperacre.
Saathoff was 1982 state winner in
the category for irrigated, no-till
soybeans.
Average yield for the top 10
contestants in the 1982 Maryland
soybean contest was 64.7 bushels
per acre. This is more than 2.2
times last year’s average state
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