LEESPORT (Bertr Co.)'
Uncontrolled surface water runoff
can cut into your profits in any
cropped field, states Randy
McCormack, soil conservationist
with the Soil Conservation Ser
vice. The little rills channeling
water, fertilizer and lime off your
fields in the spring become larger
with each rainfall and sometimes
become deep enough to interfere
EPHRATA (Lancaster Co.)
Less than three percent of U.S.
farmers use computers for finan
cial recordkeeping while 56 per
cent use general ledgers or
notebooks.
Nearly 16 percent use some
form of financial records work
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with harvesting in the fall. One
remedy for this problem is to faim
the field in contour strips, alternat
ing a hay strip or small grain strip
with a strip of row crop. On a
steeper sloping field, eight to fif
teen percent, a diversion may also
be needed. A diversion is a ridge
built across the slope and is
designed to divert and carry
excess surface runoff to a safe out-
book. That leaves 25 percent using
“other methods” of recordkeep
ing, including 14 percent who use
the proverbial “shoebox” or some
similar informal system of keep
ing receipts, invoices and bills of
sale.
This information was gathered
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let, usually a waterway. By divert
ing the excess runoff away from
your fields, you are shortening the
length of the field and protecting
the lower slopes from an accumu
lation of rainfall runoff. This will
prevent any small gullies from
forming and will keep your top
soil, fertilizer and lime where it
belongs, on the field. A stripcrop
ping system will further control
in the annual Farm Costs and
Returns Survey covering opera
tions of calendar year 1987.
The survey is conducted each
year by USDA’s National Agri
cultural Statistics Service and its
state offices.
Another finding in the survey
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any runoff rainfall that begins to
accumulate below the diversion.
The diversion, once con
structed, is seeded to a grass hay
mixture. The sod on the diversion
protects the channel from erosion
and provides cover for the berm.
The diversion seeding may be
managed for hay or green chop. A
diversion will easily last 30 years
or more, with proper maintenance.
was that less than 12 percent of
farmers subscribe to farm finan
cial recordkeeping services.
About two-thirds of such services
are provided by accountants, the
participants in the survey
indicated.
Computer usage is not uniform
throughout the farm sector. Nearly
15 percent of the operators of
“large” farms (those with annual
commodity sales of at least
$250,000) used computers in 1987
and nearly 40 percent of that
category used recordkeeping
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The initial investment in construc
tion of a diversion will be repaid
in reduced soil losses, reduced fer
tilizer, lime and pesticide losses
and in improved crop yields.
For more information concern
ing diversions and other soil ero
sion control measures contact the
U.S. Soil Conservation Service at
the Berks County Agricultural
Center in Bern Township.
services.
Large farms accounted for 55
percent of all commodity receipts
in 1987, according to economist
Jim Johnson of USDA’s Econom
ic Research Service. Thus the
three percent figure (the propor
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ters) is not indicative of the
amount of U.S. farm production
coming from farms that use
computers.
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