A26-Lucastor Faming, Saturday, January 31,1957
BYGINGER SECRIST MYERS
Adams County Correspondent
YORK SPRINGS - Over 100
people ventured out on snow
packed roads to the York Springs
Firehall, Jan. 26, for the 1987
Adams County Com Day Program.
The day featured a varied
program of presentations on
economical corn production,
marketing options, an opportunity
to browse through the 22 agri
business displays on hand, and the
presentation of the county’s 5-Acre
Com Club and Silage Club awards.
Capturing a blue ribbon in the
State Silage Club competition was
Mason-Dixon Farms, Gettysburg,
with a yield of 23.1 tons per acre at
70 percent moisture. Farm Crops
Manager, Thomas Johnson, ex
plained that Eastland variety 62SX
was double-cropped in after
barley. Mason-Dixon Farms then
irrigated their com with manure
water.
Others in the county par
ticipating in the 5-Acre Corn Club
programs were David Reinecker,
York springs, and Ronald and
William Harrison, Littlestown.
This meeting served as a two
credit session under the new
pesticide re-certification
requirements with those in at
tendance receiving one credit for
Joey Mayer’s, Cumberland County
Extension Agent, presentation on
“Chemical Weed Control
Recommendations’’ and Penn
State Ag Safety Specialist Dennis
Murphy’s detailed explanation of
the PA Right-to-Know Law and
Pesticide Update Training.
Doug Beegle, Penn State
agronomist, addressed the topics
of “Secondary Elements and New
Trends in Com Fertilization”.
Beegle stressed that the pH of the
soil will determine how you
manage sulfur and the
micronutrients. He noted that
sulfur deficiencies are rare in
Pennsylvania, in large part due to
the amount of acid rain the state
receives. Still, he feels sulfur
deficiencies may be our next
problem area. Field tests for
deficiencies in both sulfur and zinc
have been inconsistent, but tests
are continuing.
Beegle outlined the need for
better nutrient management for
both com and alfalfa yields.
Highlighting the value of manure
for soil nutrients. Beegle stated
that three-quarters of the nutrients
produced on a dairy farm stays on
the farm. It is contained in the
manure to be spread back on the
Adams Co . Corn
fields from which the crops were
harvested to feed the cows. The
other quarter of the nutrients leave
the farm in the form of milk and
cull cows.
To take full advantage of those
nutrients available in the manure,
Beegle recommends saving the
liquid fraction of manure since it
contains large amounts of
nitrogen, incorporating manure
immediately after spreading to
prevent loss of nitrogen through
oxidation, and soil testing and
manure analysis to match soil
needs with manure nutrient
content.
Roland Freund, Penn State area
farm management agent, looked
at ways to increase, profit margins
by reducing costs rather than by
increasing corn production.
Freund likened past production
strategies to a double-barreled
HARRISBURG - Farmers will Reserve Program from February
have another opportunity to enter 9to 27. Eugene Thompson, director
their highly erodible land in of the USDA Agricultural
USDA’s 10-year Conservation Stabilization and Conservation
Cochranville Dairyman Elected Director
SOUTHAMPTON - Elvin M.
Rohrer Jr. has been named a
director of Inter-State Milk
Producers’ Cooperative, according
to Robert B. McSparran,
president.
Rohrer, Cochranville, was
Delmarva Dairy Day Set
NEWARK, Del. - New.trends in
milking equipment and electronic
feeding will be featured at the
annual Delmarva Dairy Day Feb.
2 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the
Hartly Fire Hall, Hartly.
The theme of this year’s
meeting, which is cosponsored by
the Delaware and Maryland
Cooperative Extension systems, is
“Daipdng in the 19905.” The
meeting is free and open to the
public; however, pre-registration
at county extension offices for an
industry-sponsored lunch is
required by Jan. 25.
Prior to the first morning
session, exhibits will be open from
9 a.m. to 10 a.m., and coffee and
donuts will be served.
Dr. George Haenlein, University
of Delaware extension dairy
specialist, will be moderator of the
Day Stresses Profits Over Yields
shotgun approach; producing
more corn regardless of the costs.
He suggests instead that corn
producers attempt to, “get the
buck with the barrel.”
He recommends, “Take the time
and patience to use a sharp pencil.
Figure out all your costs and
calculate likely sales. Put your
inputs on your best fields first and
consider rotating unprofitable
acreage out of com... if it doesn’t
work out on paper, it sure won’t
work out in the field.”
Area marketing specialist Larry
Yeager and J. Glen Miller, Adams
County ASCS, highlighted possible
marketing options and the 1987
ASCS program provisions. Stated
Yeager, “While some of you may
be hesitant to consider the
government programs for a
variety of reasons; they’re still the
best game in town.”
Conservation Reserve
elected by Inter-State’s District 11
members. He replaces H. Lee
Brown, Oxford, who served as a
director for two years.
Rohrer, 53, and his family have
been farming for over 200 years.
They currently own 153 acres and
first session on milking equipment.
Products such as Delaval,
Boumatic and Westfailia will be
discussed.
The use of fiber in dairy cow
rations will be considered by Dr.
Kim Cassel, University of
Maryland extension dairy
specialist. Chip Dougherty, animal
nutritionist from Eastman Kodak,
and Roger McKnight, president of
Romac Nutrition, will then speak
on the use of acids in ration for
mulation.
Fly control will be the topic of
Dr. Ed Schmidtmann, research
entomologist with the USDA, in
Beltsville, Md.
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Penn State Extension agronomist Doug Beegle (left)
congratulates Thomas Johnson and Horace Waybright,
Mason-Dixon Farms, Gettysburg, on their 5-Acre Corn Club
yield. Presentation was part of Adams Co. Corn Day program.
Signup Set For Feb.
Service, reported a change in
eligibility for this signup.
Alfalfa and other legumes and
grasses in a crop rotation system
are now considered agricultural
milk 55 Holsteins at their Elver
Valley Farm.
An active Inter-State member,
Rohrer served as his district
president, vice president and
delegate. He has been a
cooperative member for 20 years.
Rohrer is a member of the
Pennsylvania Farmers
Association, Dairy Herd Im
provement Association, the
Chester County Agricultural
Conservation Service and the
Chester County Dairy Promotion
Committee.
In addition, he is an active
member of the Mt. Vernon Men
nonite Church and is a former
member of the West Fallowfield
Christian School Board.
Rohrer and his wife, Vera, are
members of the Pennsylvania
Farm Vacation Association and
welcome the county’s tourists.
They are the parents of five
children Judy, Linda, Charlene,
Jay and Gerald.
commodities in determining land
eligible for the Conservation
Reserve Program (CRP), reports
Thompson.
Land must be in an agricultural
commodity crop for at least two of
the five years, 198-85 as one con
dition of eligibility. “This is land
that is not causing an erosion
problem while in grass, but would
when it is put in grain crops
without conservation practices,’’
reports James Olson, state con
servationist for the USDA Soil
Conservation Service.
Another condition is that soil
erosion is occurring at three times
the allowable rate on land classes
II through V or at two times the
allowable rate with a serious
gulley erosion problem. Land in
classes VI-VIII does not need to
meet the soil loss requirements.
Farmers in the CRP receive
payments for ten years for taking
erosive cropland out of production
and putting it into perennial grass,
wildlife plantings or trees.
Additional information on the
Conservation Reserve Program or
other provisions of the 1985 Farm
Bill is available from Soil Con
servation Service or Agricultural
Stabilization and Conservation
Offices.
Authorized
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