A3o—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 18,1983 Ciba-Geigy research tour Can wheat yield barrier be broken? LANDISVILLE - Wheat research - more or less one of the forgotten crops in the yield sweepstakes - was featured in the Ciba-Geigy Keystone Farm Tour in Lancaster County on Wed nesday. Wheat research plots featured use of a new Ciba-Geigy fungicide, Tilt, which may play a major role in a few years in providing healthier plants to increase yields. In comparisons of the use of Bayleton and the new Tilt, Ciba- Geigy researcher Frank Tremmel, showed the healthier stands of wheat with the latter fungicide. The new Tilt does a much better job on Septona, according to Tremmel, and had a 50 percent better control than the Bayleton. While on the Bayleton plots, only the flag leaf of the plants showed vigor, the Tilt plots show ed healthy second leaves and even vigor in the third leaf. “You can hardly see the ground in the Tilt plots with the fuller, healthier plants,” Tremmel ex plained. “But the Bayleton plants are thinner and you can see right to the ground.” Tremmel explained that in a total wheat management program, in which Tilt could play a part, wheat yields could be boosted anywhere from 30 to 60 bushels. Jack Beideman, of Ciba-Geigy, outlined advantages of some of the newer products on the market. Corn plots with Evik, a short residual tnazine, were shown. It EXCAVATING BACKHOES • FRONT END LOADERS DYNAMIC MASONRY CONTRACTORS SPECIAL FARM PRICES •Fill & Topsoil GORDONVILLE .Grading mike fisher a LARRY herr .Septic Tanks & Drain Fields jd^7 687-6801 *Snow Removal free estimates Pits Electric Fence Repair We offer fast reliable service. mi w i VMjt r 'tW PO Box 284 45 E. Lemon St. Lititz. PA 17543 717-627-2628 has been used as a potato vine killer up in Lehigh County and its short residual permits coming back in small grains. Kidomil wettable powder MZSU controls mildew in such crops as cucumbers, melons and onions and late blight in potatoes and tomatoes. Prime Plus as a tobacco sucker control has only a two-hour drying time and no leaf discoloring or MH3O residuals. Ralph Hall, district manager of Ciba-Geigy, led the tour groups through the corn plots on the Leroy Esbenshade farm. In addition to various combination herbicide controls, the plots also compared no-till, pre-plant and pre-emerge. Incorporation comparisons showed that the Jess incorporation in a wet year was the best. Spring tooth showed up best, with very shallow roller harrow second and the disc as the worst. Also speaking was Dave Cote, of Chevron, who explained that in no till there must be a year-to-year adaptation with no two years the same due to changes in conditions. Evik was pointed out par ticularly as a product for PIK acres to control grasses. With its short residual tnazine charac teristics, it can be put on in June or July and you can come back with small grains in the fall or spring with no carry-over. Other Ciba-Geigy personnel participating in the Keystone Farm tour were Neil Orr and John Flanagan. d&t Electronics Authorized Eiectroline and Hold-em and Parmark Warranty Station ' f !r Neil Orr, of Ciba-Geigy, explains Farm-Pak Systems to part of tour group. ‘» / f 9* f ¥ Herbicide comparisons are examined by participants in Ciba-Gei Tour in corn field of Leroy Esbenshade. STILL # I Putdiman- Big Dutchman cage systems are the "standard” by which all others are measured. So why not start your cage shopping with the No. 1 company in the field. We can provide “all” the components that make up a complete cage system and therefore are able to guarantee reliability, control, cost savings and one-source service. And remember, once your Big Dutchman system is completed, the competently trained staff of Hershey Equipment Company will continue to service it and provide spare parts at DISCOUNTED prices as it has been for over fifteen years. HERSHEY EQUIPMENT COMPANY , "WE SELL THE BEST & SERVICE THE BEST 1 Route 30 West at The Centerville Exit Designers of Quality Systems for Poultry, Stfine and Grain Handling ■% x" *•- * tut HERSHEYEQUIPMENT IT! I COMPANY, INC. o o the Original SYCAMORE IND. PARK 255 PLANE TREE DRIVE LANCASTER, PA. 17603 (717)393-5807 ? * -s'