D22-Lancaster Farming Saturday, March 15,1986
Caroline County tops Maryland contest
COLLEGE PARK, Md. -
Maryland’s average corn yield fell
from a record 118 bushels per acre
in 1984 to 110 bushels per acre last
year, according to the Maryland
nelaware Crop Reporting Service.
aut the average yield for 20 top
./articipants in com improvement
programs sponsored by the
Cooperative Extension Service in
seven Maryland counties far ex
ceeded similar averages for any
previous year.
Statewide winners were honored
in several categories during last
month’s 79th annual meeting of the
Maryland Crop Improvement
Association, held Feb. 25 in the
Tidewater Inn at Easton.
For the fifth consecutive year,
the overall com yield champion
hailed from the Preston area of
Caroline County on Maryland’s
central Eastern Shore. Names and
faces this time were different,
however.
All six of the top growers in the
1985 overall Maryland yield
standings were participants in the
Extension-sponsored Caroline
County corn irrigation im
provement program. Each had
planted DeKalb hybrid corn, and
all but one utilized center pivot
irrigation.
The Taylor brothers-Claude and
Wesley-edged out their Preston
neighbor, William G. Greenage,
who had been overall state
champion corn grower in the four
previous years. The brothers have
been among the top five in overall
statewide com yield standings for
three consecutive years.
The Taylors’ winning com yield
for 1985 was 232.46 bushels per
acre. They used DeKalb TllOO
hybrid com and center pivot
irrigation, and they utilized heavy
applications of chicken manure to
help reduce the amount of com
mercial fertilizer which otherwise
would have been needed.
William G. Greenage and his
son, Billy, placed second in the
overall statewide corn yield
standings for 1985 with 230.29
bushels per acre. The Greenage
duo used DeKalb 689 hybrid com
and center pivot irrigation.
Operator of Beechwood Farms
at Preston, William Greenage
USDA ups fee
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Ef
fective March 31, the U.S.
Department of Agriculture will
adopt the requirements of the 1985
edition of the National Bureau of
Standards’ Handbook 44,
“Specifications, Tolerences, and
Other Technical Requirements for
Weighing and Measuring
Devices,” for grain weighing
equipment, Kenneth A. Gilles,
administrator of the Federal Grain
Inspection Service, said recently.
Gilles said the adoption of
Handbook 44 will provide
regulatory relief, simplify
regulations and achieve national
Pennsylvania
STATE COLLEGE - The
Pennsylvania Holstein Association
is making final preparations for
the annual Pennsylvania on
Parade Sale and Show. This will be
held at the Farm Show Complex in
Harrisburg on March 27 to March
29.
The show commences on
Thursday, March 29, at 8:30. The
judge for this event is Richard
Keene, Gilbertsville, NY. This
show is part one, of the three shows
which the AlKPennsylvania
Awards will again be based on.
The annual- sale starts the next
day. Approximately 120 calves and
100 bred heifers and young cows
will be sold.
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Or. V. Allan Bandel (right), Extension soils specialist at the
University of Maryland, congratulates the Taylor brothers-
Claude (left) and Wesley-of Preston on having the highest
yield in the 1985 Caroline County irrigation corn im
provement program.
holds the all-time official
Maryland com yield record of 244.8
bushels per acre, set in 1981.
W. Sherman Councell 111 of
Goldsboro placed third in the
overall statewide standings with a
yield of 244.0 bushels per acre.
During last month’s annual
meeting of the Maryland Crop
Improvement Association, he
received a plaque from the
Chevron Chemical Company for
the highest irrigated com yield in
the state grown under no-till
cultural methods.
In addition to their winning
yield, the Taylor brothers of
Preston had a field near Friend
ship which produced 221.1 bushels
per acre. That was good enough for
fourth place in the overall
statewide standings.
Baltimore County made a strong
showing in the non-irrigated com
yield category for 1985, with two
growers surpassing the previous
state record in this realm.
Harry Hubble of White Hall was
seventh in the overall standings
with a yield of 216.01 bushels per
acre. His Pioneer, 3358 hybrid com
was planted in alfalfa sod in 38-
mch rows on April 27 using the no-
for meat grading,
uniformity for devices used for
official weighing.
Handbook 44 requirements in
clude tolerances, classing systems
and other criteria applicable to
official grain weighing equipment.
However, FGIS excluded those
requirements for coupled-in
motion weighing because of its
relative inaccuracy. Coupled-in
motion weighing is a system used
to determine the weight of an
entire trainload of grain without
uncoupling the cars.
FGIS also revised the tolerances
for scales, near-infrared (NIR)
on Parade set for
Every top bull in the country will
be represented. Older, highly
regarded bulls, such as Ivanhoe,
Elevation, Astronaut and Monitor,
will also be represented.
Twent-five daughters of
Chairman will be offered to the
discriminating buyer. Valiant and
Morris Tony have 15 entries in
cluded in the sale. Buyers will also
be able to select from numerous
daughters of Chief Stewart,
Rotate, and Bell. Tradition, Mars
and Spirit offsprings will also be
paraded for the prospective buyer.
On the other side of the pedigree,
6ver 65 percent of these out
standing offspring are out of Very
Good and Excellent dams.
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till method. He qualified for a first
place plaque from Chevron in the
non-irrigated, no-till category.
Hubble’s yield broke the
previous state record for non
irrigated corn set only last year by
Edward Hancock of Snow Hill
(Worcester County). Hancock’s
1984 yield of 212.11 bushels per acre
broke an old record which had
stood since 1965.
Average yield for the top 20
growers in the 1985 official
Maryland com contest was 213.60
bushels per acre. This compares
with a “top 15” average of 201.32
bushels per acre in 1984; 195.91 in
1983; 198.73 in 1982; 192.6 in 1981,
and 167.11 in 1980.
Maryland’s statewide average
com yield of 110 bushels per acre
last year was second only to the
record of 118 bushels per acre set
in 1984, according to the Crop
Reporting Service. The previous
all-time high was 107 bushels per
acre in 1982.
The official state corn yield
contest has been conducted each
year since 1952 as part of the crop
improvement program of the
University of Maryland’s
Cooperative Extension Service.
certification
analyzers, and Kjeldahl analyzers
to update the regulations to reflect
current commercial standards,
and incorporated by reference
NBS Handbook 105-1,
“Specifications and Tolerances for
Field Standard Weights.” Gilles
said FGIS will continue to work
with the National Conference on
Weights and Measures to develop
moisture meter requirements.
For further information, contact
Lewis Lebakken, Jr., Information
Resources Management Staff,
Room 0667, FGIS, USDA,
Washington, D.C. Telephone (202)
382-1738.
March 27-29
The maternal side of the
pedigree also has production plus.
Well over half of the consignments
have in excess of 20,000 pounds of
milk and some as high as 30,000
pounds on the dam’s side.
This state show and sale features
consignments solely from Penn
sylvania. Buyers are expected
from-across the country however,
as in previous years.
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