A2B-Uncaster Farming, Saturday, August 24,1985
COLLEGE PARK, MD. -
WESTERN MARYLAND AG
FIELD DAYS are to be held on
Sept. 4 and 5 at the University of
Maryland’s Research and
Education Center near
Keedysville. The two days of tours
and demonstrations will review the
University’s current research in
fruit and field crop production and
additional educational exhibits and
machinery demonstrations.
Beginning at 9 a.m. the
presentations on Sept. 4 will
feature alfalfa fertilizer
management for higher yields and
integrated pest management. The
UMDAIR Program, the Univer
sity’s least-cost dairy ration
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5 mod
1. Thad Will, Central City, Pa.,
Allison, FP; 2. Jeff Frantz, Wind
sor, Pa., 427 Chevy, 291.11; 3. Craig
Lukenbill, Schuylkill Haven, Pa.,
Chevy, 270.4.
58 4WD
1. Roy McCully, Davidsonville,
Md., Ford, 288.4; 2. Ed Hanslovan,
Morrisdale, Pa., Chevy, 276.6 ; 3.
Dan Fellenbaum, Lititz, Pa.,
Chevy, 260.11.
7 mod
1. Willard Will, Central City, Pa..
Maryland plans Ag Field Days
balancing computer program, wiil
also be demonstrated.
Later in the morning the use of
hay drying chemicals will be a part
of the hay mowing/conditioning
field demonstrations. The after
noon program includes field dem
onstrations on hay raking, ted
ding, baling and bagging. One of
the highlights will be the prototype
of a hay swath inverter developed
by a farmer from Garrett County,
Maryland. This simple machine
will lay down a dinrow or a swatch
of variable width, ted a thick
windrow or neatly and gently in
vert a swath of hay to allow the
underside to dry.
Demonstrations for fruit
Allison, FP, 269.4 ; 2. Thad Will,
Central City, Pa., Allison, FP; 3.
Vemon Kourey, Baldwin, Md.,
Packard, 284.4.
624WD
1. Ed Hanslovan, Morrisdale,
Pa., Chevy, 285.5; 2. Steve Conrad,
Port Deposit, Md., Ford, 275.0; 3.
Roy McCully, Davidsonville, Md.,
Ford, 261.2.
9 open
1. Thadd Will, Central City, Pa.,
Allison, 299.3 ; 2. Robert Wit
tenbrader, Lake Ariel, Pa.,
Allison, 287.7 ; 3. Williard Will,
Central City, Pa., Allison, 287.0.
growers will begin at 3:30 P.M.
with sprayer and wind generating
machinery and a computer
analysis of fruit production costs.
Evening wagon tours of research
plots will include apple/rootstock
variety interactions, summer
shearing of apples, peach training
studies and Magness pear
production. The Research Cen
ter’s new table grape plants will be
examined in addition to small
fruit breeding.
The ‘Corn Showcase’ will be open
for tours both days-displaymg 54
varieties from fourteen seed
companies.
The second day, Sept. 5, will
begin with wagon tours of the
agronomy research plots. These
will include the University’s corn
variety tests, high yield small
grain studies, in addition to
nitrogen fertilizer placement in no
till com, tillage effects on grey leaf
spot and weed control studies. The
afternoon program will be field
demonstrations of forage har
vesters, no-till drilling of soybeans
and small grain and tillage
equipment.
The research and demon
strations currently underway and
others planned for the Western
Maryland Research and Education
Center are tailored for the needs of
the diversified agriculture of the
Piedmont region. The Annual Ag
Field Days are presently one of the
University of Maryland’s major
efforts to pass current research
information on to agricultural
producers.
Charles Pitts, head of , p<. jogy at
Penn State’s College of Agriculture, really got into his subject
Wednesday afternoon at the lecture hall.
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