BY JACK HUBLEY
With the corn crop disappearing
from the fields, many farmers
should be turning their attention to
methods of keeping their valuable
topsoil in place, during the winter
and spring months when bare
ground is particularly vulnerable
to erosion.
About 12 years ago, Herb Myer
Lancaster County farmer Herb Myer says his slit till method
is the answer to erosion problems. He'll explain why at a
demonstration on Oct. 28 at his farm.
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Lampeter Farmer To Demonstrate Slit Till System
of Lampeter began employing a
system he calls slit tillage to get
the job done. Since that time, he
claims to have reduced erosion and
improved his soil’s tilth and ability
to retain moisture without
sacrificing yields.
Myer sUt tills his fields using a
modified chisel plow with half the
teeth removed and the wide chisel
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shovels replaced with two-inch
wide teeth. The unit cuts five slits
30 inches apart and about 12 to 15
inches deep.
Following last year’s corn
harvest, Myer slit tilled about 100
acres. Prior to planting corn
during the first two weeks in May,
he disked the fields lightly, “just
enough to level the ridges and close
the sUts on top,” he says.
After checking his yields at a
number of field locations, Myer
found that his harvest varied from
172 to 191 bushels per acre for the
entire farm. “It’s really the best
crop I ever had,” he says.
Myer credits the slits with
helping him through the summer
drought by retaining more
moisture. “My corn didn’t wilt
down as quick during the dry spell
this summer,” he points out. And
even though heavy rains doused
the farm in the early spring and
later in the summer, he can find no
evidence of erosion.
In addition to controlling erosion
and maintaining soil moisture,
Myer says slit tillage is a money
saver, since it takes less hor
sepower to drag his slit plow
through the soil.
Myer isn’t the only one sold on
slit tillage. Convinced that more
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farmers should give it a try, the
Lancaster County Conservation
District is currently building a slit
till plow that will be available to
county farmers on a free trial
basis. The modified Brillion chisel
plow will be ready by Nov. 1, ac
cording district spokesman Amos
Funk. The unit can be used free of
charge on five acres or less and
can be towed with a pickup. “We
want to have as many people as
possible try it,” says Funk.
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under the New York-New Jersey
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basis of a uniform price of $12.79
per hundredweight, 27.5 cents per
quart.
Market Administrator Thomas
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was $12.46 in August 1986 and $12.37
in September 1985. The uniform
price is a marketwide weighted
average of the value of farm milk
used for fluid and manufactured
dairy products.
The seasonal incentive fund
returned a total of $4,173,880.98, or
$.457 per hundredweight, to the
dairy farmers’ uniform price for
September. This fund was
generated by reducing the uniform
price paid to producers during the
high-production spring months.
A total of 15,569 dairy farmers
supplied the New York-New Jersey
Milk Marketing Area with 913
million pounds of milk during
September 1986. This was , a
decrease of 1.9 percent, about 18
million pounds, from last year. The
gross value to dairy farmers for
milk deliveries was $ll9 million.
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Fanners interested in learning
more about slit tillage should plan
to attend a field demonstration on
Myer’s farm on Oct. 28, beginning
at 1 p.m. The farm is located one
half mile east of Lampeter on
Route 741.
For more information on using
the conservation district’s slit till
plow contact Gerald Hiestand at
the district’s office located in the
Lancaster Farm and Home
Center, phone 299-5361.
This included differentials
required to be paid to dairy far
mers but not voluntary premiums
or deductions authorized by the
farmer.
Regulated milk dealers used 398
million pounds of milk for Class I,
43.6 percent of the total. This milk
is used for fluid milk products such
as homogenized, flavored, low test,
and skim milks. For September
1986, handlers paid $13.61 per
hundredweight, 29.3 cents per
quart, for Class I milk compared
with $13.35 a year ago.
The balance, 514,949,943 pounds
or 56.4 percent, was used to
manufacture Class II products
including butter, cheese, ice
cream, and yogurt. Handlers paid
$11.61 per hundredweight for this
milk.
The uniform price is based on
milk containing 3.5 percent but
terfat. For September 1986, there
was a price differential of 17.7
cents for each one tenth of one
percent that the milk tested above
or below the 3.5 percent standard.
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tank milk received from farms in
the 201-210 mile zone from New
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