Plan Now For 9 87 Planting Season DEKALB, 111. - It’s hard to believe that farmers will be planting their 1987 crops in a few months. Now is the time for far mers to review their notes and observations from this past year to begin planning for next year’s crop, says Bob Streit, regional agronomist for Dekalb-Pfizer Genetics. Tillage “If a piece of worn-out equip ment must be replaced, now may be the time to switch to reduced tillage,” says the agronomist. “Much of the projected savings in reduced tillage occurs from lower equipment inventory and equip ment costs.” Last year’s alfalfa set-aside acres that will be planted to corn next year will provide the perfect base for trying slot planting, Streit suggests. Or, that new herbicide program you’ve worked up, coupled with the availability of a high trash soybean drill, appear to make no-tilling a field of soybeans feasible and profitable. 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PA DIHKLE ( GRKB 717-726-3115 CLUGSTON FARM EOUMENT 717-573-2250 Martmtburi, PA BURCHFIELD'S INC. 814-793-2194 often explored, but remember, the most expensive herbicide program is one that does not control weeds, the DeKalb-Pfizer official cautions. “If you’ve taken notes from the tractor or the combine during the season, review those notes and treat each field in dividually, based on the seventy of weed infestation.” Blanket ap plicatipns at high herbicide rates are both expensive and inefficient, Streit adds. Seed Picking the best corn or soybean variety goes a long way towards getting top yields in 1987. “You’ll want to plant your best varieties and eliminate the worst one or two,” the agronomist suggests. Replace them with the best new varieties from your seed supplier. Every new variety should have lots of performance data justifying its release, Streit states. Select varieties based on what has happened over the last three or four years rather than only the most recent year. 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Talbert, executive director of the Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation. “The acquisition cost per acre, which was already the lowest for any program of its kind in the nation, actually decreased in FY’B6 while ip-Up Guard Meets HOPS tt FOPS lUUements For SAE Radiator Protection Ipark: Arrestor Muffler .3-Qallon Fuel Ti Maintenance Battery Slatmfton PA 5 $ SCAT ENTERPRISES INC. I I 215-767-1711 I £ Palm PA Towanda PA S.P.E. INC. 717-265-4440 Tunfchannock PA s J BARTRON FARM SUPPLY 11 717-836-3740 | | Lancaster Farming Saturday, December 20,19864)21 Maryland Preserves Record Amount Of Farmland Sf r For your good friendship throughout the year, we offer our most festive wishes for a season filled with lots of cheer. Have a wonderful time! Isolated Hydraulic Reservoir Keeps Oil Clean Dursbli [luges j/8 Inert Steel Doi if ° # 4 {^rbi-br} other state’s program costs in creased.” “As most farmers are painfully aware, 1986 was a bad year for Maryland field crops and it was also a bad year for the amount of farmland lost to development pressure,” said Maryland Secretary of Agriculture Wayne A. Cawley, Jr. “Fortunately, more farmers than ever before are able to overcome these and other ob stacles by the sale of their development rights to the Foun dation, sustaining themselves and their families and insuring that more agricultural land will be preserved for the future.” The Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation Program achieved its most productive year m the establishment of new agricultural preservation districts in FY’B6 by approving 140 petitions protecting 19,982 acres. As of June 30, 1986, 841 agricultural preser vation districts preserving 124,172 acres were enrolled in the program. The FY’B6 totals provided a 19-percent increase in the district acreage base. Agricultural preservation districts now exist in 22 of the state’s 23 counties. • « New Holland, PA (717) 272-9732
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