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tour from New Holland In Lancaster County, Tuesday morning.
field comparisons of product effec- “While we will not likely see a rogen levels. ‘The layman who
tiveness and weed identification total employment of all the princi- reads the newspapers would think
plots were all part of the FMC/ pies of low imput farming in this that every manured field would
Ciba-Geigy summer tour to the D. area, we will need to justify what have soil tests that would go off the
Martin Zimmerman family farm we do in the way of nitrogen and charts,” Roth said. “This just isn’t
Tuesday morning. More than 200 nutrient management,” said Bob so. A lot of the manured fields we
dealer representatives, custom Anderson, Lancaster County tested are low in nitrogen. In fact,
operators, extension agents, extension agent Anderson demon- out of about 1500 fields, only about
researchers, FFA advisors, and strated a fast soil test to check for 35 to 40 percent of them were
industry personnel filled four nitrogen that can be done in the above the critical level. This means
buses dial transported the group field. 60 percent of manured fields need
from the park to the Zimmerman According to Dr. Greg Roth, nitrogen.”
farm located along Route 23 just Penn State agronomist, manured Roth also demonstrated the
east of Blue Ball. fields show a great variation in nit- (T Urn to Page A 34)
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