Lebanon Manure Program To Spread Nutrient 4 Wealth 9
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Conservation District manager,
Doug Goodlander. In areas where
manure production is high, fields
tend to get an overdose, while in
areas where little manure is
produced farmers may not have
the equipment to haul the manure
and spread it, or the money to have
someone else do it.
According to 1983-statistics, says
Goodlander, Lebanon County is
producing just about the right
amount of manure for its crop
acres, but the manure isn’t getting
to all the places it’s needed.
With the help of a financial boost
from the Chesapeake Bay
Program, the conservation district
directed the construction of a
truck-mounted spreader to help
remedy the problem. The project
was a team effort involving
Evergreen Tractor Company of
Lebanon and Osterlund Truck
Services of Harrisburg.
The unit employs a John Deere
Hydro-Push spreader capable of
distributing any type of solid
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Mounting the unit on a truck
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der, pointing out that the truck can
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Goodlander said the district is
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to sell manure. “We have people
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district office, 272-3377.
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Before manure is applied to any
field, though, farmers need to be
aware of its nutrient levels, said
Russ Wagner of the Department of
Environmental Resources’ Bureau
of Soil and Water Conservation. “I
would encourage all farmers to get
a manure test done,” said Wagner,
cautioning farmers against relying
on “book” nutrient values on their
particular farm. “Yours can be
tremendously different than the
average,” he said.
To illustrate his point, Wagner
noted that in tests done in Lan
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nitrogen content in a ton of manure
went from a low of .88 pounds per
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Wagner stressed that manure
testing should be repeated if
manure handling methods or feed
content are changed.
Wagner came to the field day to
introduce the Mobile Nutrient Lab
to Lebanon-area farmers. A joint
project of DER and Penn State
University, the lab conducts on
farm soil, water and manure tests,
and can develop a computerized
nutrient management program for
a given farm when the above data,
along with crop information, is
provided. Turn-around time for the
test results is 24 hours.
The mobile lab’s mission is to
encourage manure analysis and
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Crop Residue Saves Soil
Crop residue is more than dead
plant material which some farm
ers call trash It is the key
ingredient of a conservation tillage
program, says John Akers, district
conservationist with the Cham
bersburg office of the USDA Soil
Conservation Service.
Crop residue has saved millions
of tons of topsoil on the nation’s
farmlands. The dead plant
materials protect the soil from the
impact of the ram drop and holds
the soil m place so it will not run
off.
Agronomists state that each
bushel of corn results m 56 pounds
of residue. With a 100-bushel-per
acre corn crop, there is 5600
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soil testing, said Wagner. The lab
is available to all fanners within
the Susquehanna River basin, and
farmers interested in having the
lab visit their area should contact
their local conservation district
office.
Farmers attending the field day
also had the opportunity to view
manure management research
being conducted on the Hoover
farm by the conservation district
and the county extension service.
Test plots of corn were planted
employing various tillage and
nutrient treatments.
Field day visitors also had the
opportunity to tour the Hoover
dairy and beef operations.
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Additional information can be
obtained from the Department’s
Bureau of Plant Industry at 717-
787-4843 or through a County Ex
tension Office.
pounds of residue produced per
acre. If this residue is distributed
over the field surface and remains
until after the next year’s corn
crop is planted, soil erosion can be
reduced up to 90 percent.
Although crop residue is ef
fective in reducing surface
erosion, there may still be a
problem m managing surface
water runoff, states Akers. On
shorter slopes of 300 feet and a 6
percent slope, contour strip
cropping is usually effective in
controlling surface water. When
slopes are larger and steeper, then
diversions and terraces may be
needed to reduce surface water
runoff.
Protect Soils
This Winter
“Don’t get caught
with bare soil in your
com fields this winter,”
states Stanley E.
Palmer, Soil Con
servation Technician
with the Chambersburg
office of the USDA Soil
Conservation Service.
Bare or unprotected
soil will erode or wash
off the fields and fill up
road ditches and nearby
stream channels during
the fall and winter ram
storms. During the
erosion process, organic
matter, chemical fer
tilizers, and pesticides
also run into the stream
channels. These are a
dollar loss to the farmer
as well as a dollar cost
to the public who have to
pay to clean up the
water in the Chesapeake
Bay.
Farmers can protect
their bare corn fields by
planting a cover crop
this fall, states Palmer
Annual ryegrass at 20
pounds per acre, winter
wheat to 120 pounds per
acre, or winter rye at
112 pounds per acre are
the most common
grasses planted for
winter cover crop on the
bare corn fields.