COLLEGE PARK, Md. - Essex and Union soybeans, planted in narrow rows, came through a generally hot, dry summer to make top yields for many Eastern Shore farmers in the 1983 official Maryland soybean yield contest. Top producers in the statewide soybean yield contest were honored Feb. 28 during the seventy-seventh annual meeting of the Maryland Crop Improvement Association. Their achievements compared well with those of the previous year, when growing conditions were more favorable in most locations. For the fourth time in the last five years, the championship plaque went to a Talbot county farming operation, S & G Farms, operated by J. Raymond Shortall and William Gambrill in the Miles River Neck area northwest of Easton. Their winning yield of 68.2 bushels per acre was achieved with double-cropped Essex soybeans planted in 15-inch rows. It was 23 bushels per acre better than their recorded yield for the 1982 contest and only slightly below last year’s winning state yield of 69.4 set by George C. Towers of Denton on his Talbot county far ming operation. Besides being over-all Maryland soybean champion for 1983, the S & G Farms entry was named state winner in the non-irrigated and no tillage categories. The farm operators are brothers-in-law. The rootworm insecticide built tough enough to last all season long. Now there’s BROOT™ from Union Carbide. It’s the corn soil insecticide specially formulated to deliver the full-season rootworm control you need for higher corn yields. Down deep, no other rootworm insecticide looks like BROOT™... Unlike conventional soil insecticides, new BROOT is formulated into unique roll compacted granules. Together with finely ground gypsum, the active ingredient in BROOT, trimethacarb, is blended evenly throughout each and every granule. Or works like BROOT™... Because of this unique formulation, each granule of BROOT gradually releases its active ingredient throughout the rootworm season. Top Md. soybean yield tops 68 bu. About 12 miles north, J. Tilgh man Bishop of Carmichael (Queen Aimes county) also had a good year for soybeans. He planted the Jacques J-13 variety in 19-inch rows to achieve 66.89 bushels per acre. This mark qualified for runnerup honors in the over-all state soybean yield contest. At the lower end of the Eastern Shore, some Somerset county soybean growers were having a good year, too. Ted Smith of Princess Anne placed third over-all with a yield of 66.4 bushels per acre. He had planted full-season Union soybeans in 7-inch rows. Incidentally, Smith -won the state contest for 1981 with an almost identical yield of 66.5 bushels per acre. That mark was set with full-season Essex soybeans in the non-irrigated category. Fourth-place honors for the 1983 contest went to James G. Saathoff of Ridgely (Caroline county) with a yield of 64.4 bushels of Essex soybeans per acre. Saathoff was honored as state winner in both the irrigated and irrigated no-till categories. He was also the 1982 state winner for irrigated no-till soybeans. Back in Talbot county, Paul L. Shortall, Jr., placed fifth in the state soybean contest with a yield of 61.6 bushels per acre. Shortall operates a grain and hog farm about two miles east of Easton. He is a brother and brother-in-law of the S & G Farms operators. Like them, he had planted double cropped Essex soybeans in 15-inch rows. Sixth through tenth placings in the official 1983 state soybean yield contest were as follows: 6. William S. Councell of Gold sboro (Caroline county), 61.4 bushels per acre with Essex soybeans, irrigated no-till, double cropped; 7. Wesley R. Brown of Easton (Talbot county), 59.9 bushels per acre with Asgrow soybeans in 18- inch rows, no-till, double-cropped; 8. Arthur W. 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In that year, the over-all state yield average for soybeans had fallen to 24 bushels per acre because of a hot, dry summer. The over-all state average for 1983 was 25 bushels per acre, ac cording to the Maryland-Delaware Crop Reporting Service. This compared with a statewide average of 29 bushels per acre in 1982. For Delaware, the situation was exactly reversed, thanks to near To control algae and waterweeds in nonflowing lakes and ponds. SAFE FOR RECREATIONAL. ORNAMENTAL. IRRIGATION AND SPRAY USES. Will not harm humant, livestock, wildlife or crops PROVEN EFFECTIVE, at Cornell Universily ERA Registered (No 33068-1) EASY TO APPLY. 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