(Continued from Pago 015)
bushels per acre; Group S- 124.0
bushels per acre.
Average Yield by Cultivation
Group: No cultivation- 140.4
bushels per acre; One cultivation
-139.1 bushels per acre.
Average Yield by Weed Con
trol Group: Good weed control
-141.6 bushels per acre; Average
weed control- 124.6 bushels per
acre; Poor weed control- 92.5
bushels per acre.
Average Yield by Row Spacing
Group: 30 inch rows- 146.7
bushels per acre; 32 inch rows
-125.3 bushels per acre; 34 inch
rows- 120.0 bushels per acre; 36
inch rows-131.0 bushels per acre;
38 inch rows- 132.0 bushels per
acre; 40 inch rows-113.0 bushels
per acre.
Average Yield by Fertilization
Group: Fertilizer plus manure
-140.8 bushels per acre; Fertilizer
only- 139.6 bushels per acre.
Average Application of Plant
Nutrients: Nitrogen-178.4 pounds
per acre; Phosphorus- 102.3
pounds per acre; Potassium- 90.0
pounds per acre.
9.5 percent cultivated at least
once.
49.4 percent did not use a soil
insecticide and averaged 134.2
bushels per acre.
50.6 percent used a soil insecti
cide and averaged
Some Corn Planting Reminders
per acre.
92.1 percent used atrazine or a
pre-packaged mix containing
atrazine.
43.4 percent used conventional
tillage and averaged 134.6 bushels
per acre.
17.2 percent used no-till plant
ing and averaged 151.4 bushels
per acre.
11.9 percent used chisel tillage
and averaged 142.9 bushels per
acre.
23.2 percent used chisel and
disk tillage and averaged 147.0
bushels per acre. .
For the 96 growers who submit
ted most-of-production data, the
average yield was 140.1 bushels
per acre. Their average total cost
was $261.20 per acre of $1.92 per
bushel.
Farmstead Planting
Bob Graves, Penn State agricul
tural engineer, offers the follow
ing observations to help anyone
planning to change a farmstead;
• We build buildings too close
- too close to each other, too close
to roads, streams, and property
lines and even too close to the
ground to allow good drainage of
water away from the building.
• We limit access. Access is
limited for milk trucks, fire trucks,
delivery vehicles, silo filling, and
even fresh summer breezes.
• Farmsteads are not static. We
are always adding things like
silos, grain tanks, buildings, roads,
and yards. Have you left enough
room?
• Everything is getting bigger.
Trucks and farm machinery keep
getting longer, wider, and heavier.
Docs your farmstead plan accom
modate this?
As the 1990 building season
starts to rev up, think about these
points whenever you are involved
in changing farmstead facilities.
Drinking Water For Pigs
To design or evaluate the water
supply for a swine facility, flow
rate (quantity per minute) is more
important than quantity per animal
when nipple waterers are used.
Use the following flow rates for
nipple waterers, based on manage
ment groupings:
• 10- to 2S-pound pigs - 1 cup
per minute.
• 25- to SO-pound pigs - 2 cups
per minute.
• grower pigs - 3 cups per
minute.
• finishing hogs - 1 quart per
minute.
■ sows and boars -1 to 2 quarts
per minute.
■ lactating sows - 'A gallon per
minute.
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