Lycoming County Man Wins Third In National Corn Yield Contest
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EPHRATA (Lancaster) —Most
Pennsylvania fanners considered
themselves lucky to harvest 80
bushels per acre of com last year.
One Lycoming County farmer
fated better than most; in fact hcT
was the top com producer, on a
3-acre plot, in Pennsylvania with
198 bushels per acre!
Dick Snyder’s 198.27 yield was'
high enough to place him third in
the nation in the Class A non
irrigated division of the national
com yield contest. The contest,
sponsored by DeKalb-Pfizer
Genetics, American Cyanamid
Co., and Monsanto Co., included a
total of 2,312 com growers from
46 states.
Snyder, a Montoursville man.
has received a first-place state
award on the national level three
years out of the six that he has par
ticipated in the national contest
Blis six-year yield average for the
Pmonal contest is 187 bushels per
acre with five different hybrids.
On the state level, the 53-year
old farmer has won first place three
times in the 3+ acre category out of
the six years that the division has
been in existence. In addition, he
was won the three-year average for
3+ acre division every year since
its inception in 1984.
Snyder attributes his success “to
my two partners: Mother Nature
and Lady Luck. I consider my role
as being about 10 percent They
take care of it from there.”
Another factor to his success is
the rich soil of the 125-acre parcel
he purchased from his father. The
land is located in the Loyalsock
Creek Watershed Area where the
Loyalsock Creek flows into the
Susquehanna River. It is classified
feClass I barber river-bottom soil.
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“It’s IS to 20 feet deep and
floods occasionally but doesn’t
wash,” said Snyder. The river
water deposits silt, which enri
chens the soil.
This year Snyder prepared die
seed bed by first plowing down
100 pounds of nitrogen per acre.
Sometimes he takes apass with the
disk. He planted with a 7000 John
Deere in 30-inch rows and put
down 200 pounds of 8-32-16 com
mercial starter fertilizer. When the
com was knee deep, he knifed in
180 pounds of Super N with an
inhibitor.
Snyder also used Furadan at a
rate of eight pounds per acre and
Prozinc (combination ofProwl and
Atrazine). three pounds to the acre,
to control pests. He doesn’t often
use pesticides in his normal crop
ping program. “I don’t consider it
to be cost effective,” Snyder
explained. “But it helps to get an
extra three to four bushels (per
acre) for the contest.”
He plants as early as possible
after April IS and is done by the
last week of April.
Snyder conducts test plots of
hybrid com for himself, dying to
find what works best for his land
and management practices. When
choosing new hybrids, he studies
the test results from Ohio Univer
sity and Penn State research plots
and consults with seed salesmen.
“I make sure that I select a hybrid
that has leaf-disease resistance,
because fog rolls in during the fall
causing a favorable environment
for leaf disease,” said Snyder. Last
year he tjsed Funks 4626.
Snyder grows field and sweet
com on much of his 2SO acres; he
uses rye and oats as a cover crop on
land that isn’t in continuous com.
He sells 90 percent of his field com
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as high moisture com to dairymen
within a 60- to 90-mile radius of
his farm. The remaining 10 percent
is sold as shelled com to feed mills.
A partial list of the placings
follows.
CLASS A NON-IRRIQATEO
National Winner*
1. Pries Brothers Farm, Ml, Great Lake GL
582; 2. Larry Richter, Ml, Northnlp King S
7751; 3.0. Richard Snyder, PA, Funk's 4628
Northeast, Mid-Atlantic
State Winners
Haisdan Farm, CT, Stanford HT 650; Clif
ton C. Murray, DE, Pioneer 3378; Robert J.
Bassett, MO, OeKalb OK 636; Stewart Smith,
NJ, Pioneer 3295; Stone House Farm, NY,
Stanford HT 850 A; D. Richard Snyder. PA;
Raymond Vander, VT, Cargill 6127; Robert L.
Cochran, VA, Stanford HT 797; Kay Farms,
WV, OeKalb OK 689.
CLASS AA NON—IRRIGATED
National Winners
1. Devls Brothers, MO, Northrop King S
7759; 2. Hlnkebein Farms. MO, OeKalb OK
636; 3. Calvin Hiatt, IN, Cargill 7993
Mld-Atlanllc Winner*
Tony C. Lee, NC. OeKalb OK 689; Wesley H.
Granger, OH, OeKalb OK 636
ir agri-business people from Lancaster and Chester
counties enjoyed the Bank of Lancaster County’s Farm Appreciation Day Dinner held
at the West Fallowfield Christian Day School on Monday evening. Neal R. Buss dis
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County. Pictured (from left) are Bob Badger, vice-president of ag lending; Dawn Stolt
zfus, branch manager; John E. Stefan, president; Neal R. Buss, deputy secretary of
agriculture; John Burkholder, chairman of the board; J. Roger Moyer, Jr, senior vice
president.
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NO-TILL NON-IRRIOATED
National Winners
1. Fair Acras Stock Farm* Inc., MN. P10n
a0r3377; 2. Lin and Tim Nadar, lA, Farm Sar
vloa Qrowmark 6566; Jama* C. Juatioa 11,
WV, Stanford NT 454
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Snow Farm* Inc, OE, Pienaar 3378; William
Howard Marker, MD. DeKalb DK 636; Etach
Farm*, Hi, DaKalb DK 636; Philip Davi*, NC,
Sigeo 1703; Lynn J. Evsrhard, OH, Pionaar
3343; Vamon E. Balmar, PA, DaKalb DK 672;
Jama* C. Justice 11, VA, Stanford HT 454;
Jfinas C. Juitica 11, WV, Stanford HT 650
NO-TILL IRRIGATED
National Winners
1. AMn Harris 6 Sons, WA, Pioneer 3475;
2. Jimmy Dixon, GA, DaKalb DK 711; 3. Joan
ne Dixon, GA, DaKalb 773
Northeast, MM-Allantle
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Carlisle Brothars, OE, DeKalb 0K636; Sher
ry Councall, MO, Northrup King S 7751;
Dwight Corrihar, NC, DeKalb DK 711; M.
Lamar Millar, PA, Cargill 7877; M.R. Fulka,
VA, Pionaar 3140; Stanley Dunn Jr., WV,
Pioneer 3352
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Jim L. Valdkamp, MN, Pionaar 3569; 3. Jo
Ann Valdkamp, MN, Pionaar 3505
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J. Wllmar Drawi, NJ, Northrup King NK 7751;
Wiliam Laa Hanateon, NC, Pionaar 3165;
Tony Bod, OH, DaKalb OK 789
RIDGE-TILL IRRIGATED
National Winnara
1. Matt Wilton, NE, DaKalb DK 636; 2.
Rodney Rayburn, NE, DeKalb DK 636; 3.
Jama* Morbach, NE, Qartt 8532
Northaaat, Mid-Atlantic
Slata Winnara
Billy Gillam, NC. Pioneer 3320
IRRIGATED
National Winnara
1. Ted Johnson, AZ, Pioneer 3183; 2. John
W. Cover, TX, Gant 8388; 3. Tedd R. Haas,
AZ, Garst 4445
Northeast, Mid-Atlantic
State Winner*
DC Farm*, DE, DeKalb DK 636; Hutchinson
Brothers, MO, Pioneer 3192; Danser A
Bloom, NJ, Pioneer 3295; Sunrise Farm Inc.,
NY, Stanford HT 6SOA; Roy E. Shroyer, OH,
Pioneer 3540 8 3324; John Johnson ill, PA,
DeKalb OK 524; Robert L. Newcomb, VA,
Pioneer 3358; Island Creek Farms, WV,
DeKalb T 1100
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