ers Honored At Awards Banquet January 24>
Swine Club award winners are, front row from left: Ben Lazarus, Grant Lazarus,
Kristen Haas and Jack Mosser. Second row: Sheri Lazarus, Kurt Haas, Lynn Lazarus,
and Rhonda Hartman. Third row: Mark Lazarus, Seth Gruber, Todd Bennecoff, Scott
Lazarus and Daniel Hartman.
Reached The Breaking Point
With Herbicide Costs? (jet Bicep.
If you find yourself frustrated by the high cost
of corn herbicides, try Bicep.®
It’s less expensive than tank-mixing. Less ex
pensive than other pre-packs. Less expensive
than you think.
And if you like the way Bicep works in your
budget, wait till you see how
it works in the field. One 'im/m ■
application at planting gives
you season long broadleaf *1
weed and grass control.
Bicep. Cleaner corn "
fields. At a price that won’t .ffii
break you. -Sal
It Costs Less.
Grim, Shannon Wetzel, Rhonda Hartman, and Debra Krause.
Second row, from left; Gavin Grim, Brian Lazarus, Todd
Bennecoff and Daniel Hartman.
ST. LOUIS, Mo. A non
corrosive, environmentally safe
compound made from com may be
used to deice highways and
secondary roads in the future.
Recently, the National Com
Growers Association provided a
$25,000 grant to the New York State
Energy and Research Develop
ment Authority for research
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A(wa\ s read and follow label directions
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 7,1M7-E7
New Highway Deicer
designed to determine the
economic feasibility of using corn
as a feedstock to produce calcium
magnesium acetate as a road
deicer.
NCGA’s vice president of
research, Marion Hartman, a corn
farmer from Hillsboro, OH, made
the presentation to NYSERDA
officials in Albany, NY. “While
there is on-going research being
conducted around the country
using CMA as a road deicer, the
CMA being used is all petroleum
based,” says Hartman. “We feel
corn can be the feedstock of the
future for making CMA, and the
$25,000 investment of corn checkoff
funds allows researchers to
determine the cost effectiveness of
using corn to produce CMA.”
Hartman says 100 tons of CMA,
produced through this research
grant, will be made available to
the state corn checkoff boards in
the fall of 1987, for distribution to
state departments of tran
sportation to conduct tests with the
product.
Research continues to grow in
the" use of CMA by the U.S.
Department of Transportation
(DOT) and transportation
departments in several states and
Canada.
According to NCGA Research
Director Dan Ragsdale, the U.S.
Department of Transportation has
contracted for 200 tons of CMA and
an additional 200 tons of CMA
coated sand granules for testing
purposes. Testing will be done on I
-280 near Davenport, IA in 1987, in
cooperation with the lowa DOT’S
Research Lab. • 1
If CMA derived from com can
replace just 10 percent of the
highly corrosive, environmentally
damaging salt currently used as a
road deicer, an additional 60
million bushels of com would be
utilized annually.
Wheat Growers
(Continued from Page E 6)
Yield production practice to
determine what components of this
new production system work on
their farm. Eleven sponsoring
industries are offering 25 percent
rebates on products used in MEY
production to encourage growers
to try this system.
Registration will be limited to
the first 2,000 growers. The cost to
enter the program is $45.
The second program is the
National Wheat Research Con
ference to be held in Kansas City,
Mo. from Feb. 24-26, 1987. This
grower-oriented conference will
highlight talks from leading
national experts on maximizing
wheat production and farm
management efficiency. There is
probably no better way to learn the
latest in competitive growing
systems. Registration packets for
both events can be obtained by
calling 800-543-1500 and asking for
the NAWG TEST-20 and NWRC