Ephrata Young Farmers install new officers
Ephrata Area Young Farmers will install new officers during the chapter's annual
banquet Feb. 1 at the Mt. Airy-Durlach Fire Hall at 6:45 p.m. The officers are, from left,
Leonard Martin, treasurer; Mike Pfautz, vice president; Anthony Eberly, president;
Richard Bollinger, secretary; and Steve Graybill, public relations director.
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New grass hybrid removes
sodium from western soil
WASHINGTON - A grass grown
for livestock feed also acts as a soil
cleanser that could give crops a
chance to grow on millions of acres
of salt-laden soil in the West, ac
cording to a U.S. Department of
Agriculture researcher.
Salt, or sodium, that ac
cumulates in soil can stunt crops
and seal the soil surface so crops
struggle to survive. But a hybrid
grass of sorghum and sudangrass
may solve that problem.
USDA’s Charles W. Robbins said
that the grass releases a high level
of carbon dioxide in the soil which
frees the sodium so rainfall or
irrigation water can leach out
sodium normally bound up in the
soil. The cleansing takes at least
two growing seasons.
Bobbins, a soil scientist for
USDA’s Agricultural Research
Service, said his studies indicate
that the grass could be used to
reclaim millions of acres of salt
bound soils in arid western states,
parts of the Northern Great Plains,
western Canada and similar areas
in the world.
“Saline or high-sodium soils
limit one’s choice of crops,”
Robbins said. “When sodium
builds up because rainfall is ab
sent, there isn’t enough rain to
flush out the salts, soil collapses,
seals up, and becomes im
permeable to air and water. ”
He found that crops having little
or no chance of growing in these
soils can survive where the grass
has been planted. The sorghum
sudangrass hybrid reaches a
height of 11 or 12 feet and produces
about 25 tons of grass an acre. It is
drought resistant and is used for
livestock feed and silage in low
rainfall areas.
Robbins discovered the grass’s
cleansing action in studies at the
agency’s Snake River Con
servation Research Center,
Kimberly, Idaho, while checking
the amount of carbon dioxide
released by roots of plants.
To test his finding, Robbins
selected a rancher’s field with a
sodium level so high that no crop of
any value could be grown there.
For the first planting of the
sorghum-sudangrass cross, he
said, the field averaged 20 tons of
grass an acre-enough for th>-
rancher to harvest and feed to
livestock as silage.
The grass also may help cut
costs of applying gypsum to
reclaim soil, according to Robbins.
Farmers in irrigated regions have
had to apply 10 to 20 tons of gypsum
an acre at $65 to $7O a ton.
“We are getting surprisingly
better results by planting the
hybrid grass than we got by ap
plying gypsum,’’ he said. Robbins
said he will continue laboratory
and field tests to de ermine if
planting the grass improves yields
of other crops.
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