El4-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 9,1991
COLLEGE PARK, Md
What’s new?
The promise of answers to that
perennial question is what usually
entices farmers to attend winter
time educational meetings and
trade expositions such as the
eleventh annual Delmarva Com
and Soybean Technology Confer
ence, scheduled Feb. 13 at the
Wicomico Youth and Civic Cen
ter in Salisbury.
Sponsors include agribusiness
firms and the cooperative exten
sion service at land-grant universi
ties in Delaware, Maryland, and
Virginia.
Program highlights will include
identifying weed problems in
cornfields, a leadoff inspirational
talk, and presentation of the annu
al Delmarva Com apd Soybean
Technology Conference scholar
ship to outstanding undergraduate
students majoring in agriculture
—one each from the University of
Delaware and the University of
Maryland System.
This year’s speaker on com
production problems is Dr. Mars
hal D. McGlamery, an agronomy
specialist for the cooperative
1991 Md.
Tobacco
Auctions
Begin
In April
ANNAPOLIS, Md. The
1991 Maryland Tobacco auction
season will begin on April 3 and
will last over a four-week session,
closing on April 25, according to
Maryland Secretary of Agricul
ture Wayne A. Cawley, Jr.
His announcement follows
recommendations of the State
Tobacco Authority, which earlier
proposed the sales dates after con
sulting with tobacco buyers, ware
housemen, and growers.
Running over a four week per
iod, the 1991 sales will be held on
14 days as follows; April 3-4 for
the first week, April 8-11 the sec-
ond week, April 15-18 the third
week, and April 22-25 for the final
week.
Sales will be held at the six
public tobacco warehouses
located at Wayson’s Comer, Wal
dorf, Upper Marlboro (2) and
Hughesville (2).
The tobacco to be sold is the
1990 Maryland crop which was
harvested on an estimated 7,100
acres, the lowest harvested
acreage ever in Maryland in more
than 200 years.
The 1990 crop of Maryland
grown tobacco is estimated to be
about 9.4 million pounds, up 16
percent from the 8.1 million
pounds grown in 1989.
Growers report a quality crop,
with a high proportion of the leaf
of good color and very thin char
acteristics which are favored by
buyers, particularly those repre
senting foreign tobacco
companies.
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extension service at the University
of Illinois.
An agronomy faculty member
there since 1965, Dr. McGlamery
has served as a weed control con
sultant for INTSOY, an interna
tional soybean program based at
the University of Illinois. This
research, education, and develop
ment endeavor is designed to
encourage the use of soybeans to
help alleviate world hunger.
McGlamery also has served as a
consultant with the Consortium
for International Crop Protection,
headquartered at the University of
Maryland College Park.
McGlamery holds B.S. and
M.S. degrees from Oklahoma
State University and a Ph.D. from
the University of Illinois.
His presentation at the Delmar
va Com and Soybean Technology
Conference is expected to deal
with the role of integrated weed
management systems in corn
production.
Wayne Humphreys, an Eastern
lowa crop and livestock farmer,
will start off the Feb. 13 program
at 10 a.m. with a mixture of humor
and inspiration in a talk titled
“Lead With Your Aces.” Hum
phreys lives on a family “century”
farm. He is an lowa State graduate
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and served as a national FFA vice
president for the central region in
1970-71.
Other speakers and topics will
include:
• “New Uses for Com and Com
Products” David R. Drennan,
field services director for the
National Com Growers Associa
tion, headquartered at St. Louis,
Mo.
• “Regulations for Storage,
National Alfalfa Variety Review Board
(NAVRB) from 1986 through 1989.
Fact Only three of these varieties were
classified as winterhardy by the NAVRB.
FclCfc All three of these varieties are from Pioneer.
In 1986, the National Alfalfa Variety
Review Board (NAVRB) began requir
ing winter survival data before any
alfalfa variety could be classified as
winterhardy. Since 1986, Successful
winter survival data has been
accepted for only three varieties—
-5472, 5373 and 5262 —all from
Pioneer. Prior to 1986. 5432 and 526
from Pioneer had also successfully
met the
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Transportation and Handling of
Pesticides” Jay J. Vroom, pres
ident of the National Agricultural
Chemicals Association, based in
Washington, D.C.
• “The Quick Soil Nitrate Test
—' Can It Be Used on the Eastern
Shore?” Mitchell D. Wood
ward, nutrient management con
sultant for the cooperative exten
sion service, University of Mary
land system.
• “New Problems With the
Soybean Cyst Nematode”
Robert P. Mulrooney, plant
pathology specialist for the
cooperative extension service at
the University of Delaware.
• “What’s New in High-
Management Wheat?” F.
Ronald Mulford and Dr. Daniel E.
Brann. Mulford is farm manager
at the Poplar Hill facility of the
University of Maryland’s Lower
Eastern Shore Research and Edu
cation Center. Brann is an exten
sion grain crops specialist at Vir
ginia Tech.
Activities at the Delmarva Com
and Soybean Technology Confer
ence will get under way at 8:30
a.m. with free coffee and fresh
doughnuts made from soybean
flour. Visitors also will have an
opportunity to visit 49 commercial
Th e other 118 varieties reviewed by
the National Alfalfa Variety Review
Board from 1986 through 1989 carry
only a dormancy classification —such
as dormant, moderately dormant or
non-dormant —but do not carry any
type of wlnterhardy classification.
Before gaining any type of
wlnterhardy claim, the company or
Institution submitting the variety
r al data.
exhibits and five educational
displays.
The formal program will run
from 9:50 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the
Midway room at the Wicomico
Youth and Civic Center, with
lunch available from noon to 1:15
p.m.
Noon lunch tickets at $3 each
should be purchased by Feb. 6
from offices of the cooperative
extension service throughout the
Delmarva area in order to guaran
tee that a meal will be available.
Admission is free for the program
sessions. Fast-food restaurants are
available within easy walking dis
tance of the conference site.
S. Derby Walker, Jr., a Sussex
County agricultural agent for the
cooperative extension service at
the University of Delaware, is
planning committee chairman for
this year’s conference. Gerald B.
Truitt, Jr., of Salisbury will be
master of ceremonies. Truitt is
executive secretary of Delmarva
Poultry Industry, Inc., a trade
organization.
The Wicomico Youth and Civic
Center is located behind the Salis
bury Shopping Mall, off U.S.
Highway 50, in southeast Salis
bury. Plenty of free parking is
available.
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