AlO-Lancastar Farming, Saturday, April 27,1985 NOW IS THE TIME To Plant Cora The dry warm weather has developed excellent conditions for planting com. So be sure your planter is ready to go when your fields are ready to plant. If you plan to change the row width, be sure to calibrate your planter to the plant population you desire. If you need new plates-pick them up and install them. Also, your pest control programs should be worked out. If you are on a no-till program and have a cover crop of rye, wheat or barley, then it should be sprayed when the vegetation is 18- 24 inches tall. Paraquat plus a surfactant does an excellent job. As far as control goes, research data collected from numerous sites over the past several years in dicates that soil insecticide treatments for com rootworm control have not significantly increased yields except in a small percentage of the fields. If root worm was not a problem in the past, treatment will not be necessary. If the field was in anything but com, there would not be a rootworm problem because they only survive on com roots. To Think Ryelage Many farmers plant rye as a forage crop for their cattle. Rye can provide a lot of much needed high quality forage-if it is handled properly. For top quality feed value, rye should be cut around the boot stage of maturity, and wilted before ensiling. After this stage, feed value drops rapidly. Some of our rye fields will be heading out soon. That means we should be thinking about cutting rye, perhaps even before we finish planting com. Grange outlines legislative priorities HARRISBURG - Grange Master Charles E. Wismer only foreign-owned operations hpIILo Pl nn^ outlined the Pennsylvania State from receiving PIDA money F en i d 1°" 3 n ° n ’ Grange’s legislative priorities and required that applicants 3 ™ at the Grange Week banquet employ at least 25 people. The This bill name Tuesday night. Grange’s objection here is that f * Turning to members of the this latter requirement ef- Agriculture as responsible for state legislature in attendance, fectively excluded small family m Wismer praised “both sides of farm operations. Agri-business ft I d H the isle” for working for concerns would still be eligible nmnuee. T . „ n . agriculture in rural Penn- for loans. Both the above bills L.,!,!, ™ sylvama. have received House Ag £ H i if” pf Here’s where the Grange will Committee approval. hif l d by S Edward be concentrating its efforts; • H. 8.976 - A bill introduced by ‘ • H. 8.236 - Introduced by Rep. Rep . John Broujos, would if™'. R , J"' Carville Foster, this bill would require payment for poultry traduced by Rep. Ruth Rudy limit foreign investors to the and eggs within 21 days unless 1 ff! ownership of not more than 10 otherwise stated m a contract. thl acres of land. The present limit Producers not being paid within hI.XpJ Jh.hnn is 100 acres. this time period could place a ederal budget t J[! e resolutl °" • H. 8.237 - Also introduced by hen on the debtor’s property. . Foster, this bill would prohibit This bill also passed the House _ ““ r J ee mp c „°' all on-site farm operations from Ag Committee. r ® quir k e .. Process ( >rs to obtaining PIDA (Pa. Industnal . H. 8.479 - Introduced by Rep. absorb the cost of inspection. 0779, DO >OO By Jay Irwin Lancaster County Agriculture Agent Phone 717-394-6851 To Evaluate Sewage Sludge Before Using Many farmers are being ap proached to have sewage sludge applied to their land. Several things must be evaluated before considering this step. First of all, many of our farms are presently producing more animal and poultry manure than they have land to apply it on, so we just don’t have the acreage. You should also be aware of potential pitfalls in sewage sludge. Sludge is a by-product of wastewater treatment and can contain many different elements and compounds from municipal and industrial sources. The wastewater goes through several stages of treatment, but the sludge that is removed from the effluent may contain heavy metals and trace elements such as copper, zinc, lead, nickel, chromium or cadmium. These elements can be toxic to plants at low levels and some represent a hazard to the food chain. To avoid heavy metal or other Farm Calendar Saturday, April 27 Cumberland Blue Genes Sale. York Sheep and Wool Field Day, York Fairgrounds, 9:30 a.m. Dairy Exposition, Penn State University, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. A Day, Delaware Valley College. Ag Day, University of Maryland Dairy Goat Seminar, Montgomery 4-H Center, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. >0 VOL) LIKE problems, sludges musi ue analyzed to determine their suitability. Ideally, your soil should also be tested. Sludge and soil testing is absolutely essential for the safe and beneficial use of sewage sludge on cropland. Costs of analyses are usually paid by the municipality involved. To Develop Safety Habits We are aware that farming is not the safest occupation. In fact the average farm worker can expect that once every four years he’ll be injured so severely that medical attention is needed. We also know that farming is even more dangerous than industrial work. Farmers have a work accident rate that’s two and a half times greater than the average for all industries. The problem is, that unlike industry, farmers work with a minimal amount of supervision and they may not be properly trained for the job. We urge far mers during this busy season to take time to be safe. The Peon State Extension Service is an affirmative action, equal opportunity educational institution. * Tour of “The Goat Works,” the largest goat cheese producing farm in the United States, Washington, NJ, 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Annual Meeting, Pa. Association of Meat Processors, The Embers, Carlisle. VOL) BET IDO, ESPECIALLY ONE FART OF /T? vStT? Sunday April 28 EMPTY NOTHINGS April 28,1985 Background Scripture Job 20 through 21 Devotional Reading: Job 23:1-13, Zophar is another of the three “friends” of Job who come to “comfort” him. But like the other two, Zophar is not much of a comfort to Job. Job sits before him in utter misery-physical, mental and spmtual-and Zophar’s idea of “comfort” is to preach Job a little sermon on how the prosperity and good fortune of the wicked is brief and always certain to be punished. Zophar has a way with words and it is a beautiful sermon: Do you not know this from of old, since man was placed npon earth, that the exulting of the wicked is short, and the joy of Mo godless but for a moment? (lob 20:4,5) THEN, MOCK ON! There’s only one problem with these noble sentiments, as far as Job is concemed-they are ab solutely wrong! Just look around, challenges Job, there are lots of wicked people who live to a ripe old age and are surrounded with prosperity. Why, even “Their bull breeds without fail”! (21:10). Some of these wicked people die with a smile on their lips—what kind of justice is that anyway? It is really God’s justice, not Monday, April 29 Pa. Sheep and Wool Growers annual meeting, Keller Building, Penn State Univer sity. Tuesday, April 30 Pa. Wool Sale, Nittany Lion Inn, Penn State University. Wednesday, May 1 Lancaster County Conservation District, monthly board meeting, Farm and Home Center, 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 3 Pa. National Arts and Crafts Show, Farm Show Complex, Harrisburg. Two-day Bio-Ag Seminar, Farm and Home Center, 10 a.m. to 9 Delaware farmers increase crop insurance coverage NEWARK, DE Delaware farmers have increased their use of crop insurance as a management tool to protect themselves against devastating income losses caused by ab normally low yields. “We anticipate .that farmers in this state will buy more than $3.5 million worth of crop insurance this year,” says University of Delaware assistant extension farm man’s that Job is questioning, “As for me, is my complaint against man?” (21:4). No, it is a complaint against God and Job’s friends are aghast at the boldness of Job to say such things in God’s presence. Yet, just as the skeptical questions of the Apostle Thomas gave Jesus the occasion to utter some of his most profound sayings, so the dogged protests of Job are obvious!" "'—er to God’s heart than the “empty nothings” of Eliphaz, who seems to keep faith by pretending that evil men always get their just deserts. When we hear Job’s complaints, we cannot help agreeing that that is often the way it is in our world, too. A brutal mobster all too often dies “in full prosperity...his body full and fat” (21:23,24). Yet, although Job is absolutely right in his judgement that justice often does not prevail in this world, he is absolutely wrong in attributing that failure to God. DOWN TO SHEOL Justice is God’s will for his children, but he does not compel us to be just, just as he does not compel us to be good. Justice and equity are not part of the “given” of human existence, they are part of that which is to be achieved. So, if the world is unjust, it is we who have to change the world. The key to Job’s frustration is found in his statement to Sheol” (21:13). In the day this book was wntten most people believed that there was no conscious life after death. Sheol was the end. Thus, God’s justice after death was too late. But if you believe in a life beyond this earth, then you can begin to understand that it is in that realm that justice and evil receive their ultimate rewards and punish ments. p,m. Saturday, May 4 Apple Blossom Festival, South Mountain Fairgrounds. Md. Sheep and Wool Festival, Howard County Fairgrounds (continues Sunday), Northeast Pa. Mountain Dairy Goat Association meeting, Madison Township Fire Hall, 1 p.m. Two-Day Bio-Ag Seminar, Farm and Home Center, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Annual Spring Sale, Pa. Shorthorn and Polled Shorthorn Breeders Association, Mercer 4-H Park. Saturday, May 11 Western Pa. Sheep and Club Lamb Sale, Mercer County 4-H Park, Mercer, 6:30 p.m. management specialist Mark Kooker. “That’s a 25 percent in crease over 1984. Looked at another way, you could say this figure shows that Delaware far mers are sharing $3.5 million of their product risks with other producers from across the nation." Multi-peril crop contracts insure against essentially all unavoidable production hazards such as drought, freezes, hail, excessive ram, wind damage, insects and diseases. The policies do not cover losses due to neglect, theft or failure to follow recognized far ming practices. if r $ Delaware farmers can find out about insuring their crops in several ways. They can contact an agent who sells crop insurance, a county ASCS office, or the county extension office in Newark (451- 2506), Dover (736-1448) or Georgetown (856-7303). They can also call Kooker directly at 451-2511. He has prepared a fact sheet, “Multi-Peril Crop Insurance; A Management Tool,” whidi is available at all county extension offices.
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