Livestock Notes
Sale Directory
A suggestion was made at the
annual Northumberland County
Sheep and Wool Growers Banquet
(hat cooperative extension and the
association develop a directory
hsung the addresses and phone
numbers of people who would like
to list their breeds of sheep, club
lambs, freezer lambs, or sheep
products (wool, yams, supplies,
fencing co. etc.) that they may
have available for sale.
The directory would be updated
every two years and would be dis
tributed to area businesses and
advertisers. For this first year list
ings are available for $2 each for
members of the Northumberland
County Sheep and Wool Growers
Association. Listings for others
(sheep dog breeders, sheep and
wool products, fencing busines
ses, etc. who are not members)
will be available for $5 to cover
the publication costs.
Anyone who is not a member
and wants to make a listing or
wants more information may call
Dave Bailey at the extension
office (717) 644-4455.
Accent and Beacon in 1991
Accent and Beacon are two new
sulfonylurea herbicides registered
in 1990 for use in field corn.
They are applied post
emergence and have excellent
activity on members of the sorg
hum family such as shattercane
and johnsongrass. In addition,
Accent has good activity on annu
al grasses such as foxtail and Bea
con is strong on a number of
broadleaf weeds.
Several label changes have
occurred for Beacon in 1991. Per-
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tinent changes include:
• Do not use Beacon on sweet
com or popcorn.
• Do not use Beacon and
Counter the same season.
• For other organophosphate
(OP) insecticides (AAstar, Dyfo
nate, Lorsban, or Timet) applied at
time of com planting, temporary
injury may occur following Bea
con application. Do not use a fol
iar OP 10 days before or after
Beacon. .
• Aerial applications of Beacon
are not allowed.
• Include nonionic surfactant
(NIS) or crop oil concentrate
(COC) with applications. May
include liquid fertilizer (28 per
cent or 34 percent UAN) if
desired. Do not use liquid fertiliz
er as the spray carrier.
• May tank-mix Beacon with
Banvel, Buctril, or 2,4-D to
broaden the weed control spec
trum. Use NIS, not COC or UAN
if tank-mixed.
• Do not tank-mix with any
other pesticides than listed above.
• A potentially important weed
in Pennsylvania added to the
label: Burcucumber.
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A New Product In Our Line
Farm Management Agent
Appointed
Luther B. Smith has been
appointed associate extension
agent with cooperative extension
effective December 10, 1990.
As multi-county Farm Manage
ment Agent, Luther will be housed
in Lebanon County and will work
also with the extension staff and
clientele in Dauphin and Berks
Counties.
Luther was bom and raised in
East Greenville, Montgomery
County, Pennsylvania. While
attending high school, he worked
on a 50-cow dairy farm where he
was involved in all aspects of the
farm, from animal care and milk
ing to field work. He developed an
appreciation for the many diffe
rent “hats” a farmer must wear in
operating a farm.
LUTHER graduated from lowa
State University with a B.S.
degree in farm operation. This
course of study was broad in
nature, including agronomy, ani
mal sciences, ag mechanization,
economics and farm management.
Following graduation from
lowa Stale, he moved to Missouri
and managed a farrow-to-finish
hog operation. The operation was
unique in that breeding, gestation
and farrowing was conducted in
open pastures. The nursery unit
and finishing unit were contained
housing.
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After returning to Pennsylvani
a, he worked for Pennfield Corpo
ration in the feed marketing divi
sion as a dairy feed salesman man
aging a sales territory in the State
College area, specifically Centre,
Mifflin, Clinton, Snyder and
Union counties. He later trans
ferred to a new sales territory
which included Berks, Montgom
ery, Bucks, Lehigh, western New
Jersey and the northeastern comer
of Lancaster counties. During this
time, he developed a better under
standing of the agricultural indus
try both from a farmer/producer
view and an agri-business
viewpoint
Deciding to pursue a master’s
degree in business administration
(MBS), he left full-time employ
ment in August of 1989 to finish
his master’s degree on a full-time
basis at York College of Pennsyl
vania. He was graduated in
December of 1990.
Revised Penn State Extension
Manure Analysis Program
Manure analysis has been
established as an important tool in
developing effective manure man
Research Boosts Soybean
ST. LOUIS, Mo. For years,
farmers’ demands for higher
yields have encouraged breeders
to squeeze more bushels out of
new varieties. That extra output,
however, has come partly at the
expense of reduced protein.
But this negative protein and
yield relationship may soon be a
thing of the past. Joseph Burtin, a
plant geneticist at a USDA Agri
cultural Research Service unit at
Raleigh, North Carolina, has deve
loped a bean with a 3.4 percent
higher protein level that also has
recorded good yields. This
increase, from a little over 42 per
cent protein to 46 percent trans
lates to a possible $l.OO to 51.50
per bushel in extra revenue, Bur
ton said.
“Currently there’s no soybean
meal surplus and the market can
use all the protein produced from
soybeans. There’s a real need for
this variety,” the scientist said.
Burton developed the bean
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agement programs for farms in
Pennsylvania.
Results of nine years of manure
analysis has indicated that using
book values cm - average values for
manure nutrient content may be
off by up to 100 percent on any
individual farm.
Thus, it is critical that individu
al manure samples be analyzed on
each farm if manure management
is going to be optimized for maxi
mum economic benefits for the
farmer and minimum impact on
the environment.
To help facilitate the use of
manure analysis over the last nine
years, Penn State Cooperative
Extension made arrangements
with a private lab to do the analys
is and make manure mailing con
tainers available through the coun
ty extension offices. This program
has been quite successful and
Penn State has led the way in
increasing the interest in manure
analysis.
As a result, other labs are now
in the manure analysis business
and the time has come to expand
the program.
Protein
through a technique called
restricted index selection, which
allowed him to uncouple
genlically-paired protein and yield
traits.
“The advantage of this system is
it maintains genetic diversity for
yielding ability in the offspring
and maintains a constant protein
level,” Burton said. “Offspring arc
then used in a more conventional
pedigree breeding method to deve
lop a pure line or \ anely as quick
ly as possible.”
ASA staff via; president for
research, Keith Smith, said “Dr.
Burton’s development and the
impact it could have is very excit
ing. The varieties that may result
could help us regain export mark
ets we’ve lost abroad in recent
years. That would increase soy
bean farmers profit opportunities
and that’s why we’ve strongly
supported this effort through
checkoff investments.”
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