Dfi-Lancastef Farming, Saturday, January 2,1993 Farmers Change WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. It’s crunch time for fanners across the country who have land classified as highly credible by the federal government. The conservation compliance provisions of the 1985 and 1990 farm bills give them only (wo more years to install con servation practices that reduce soil erosion to acceptable levels. Farmers who don’t control ero sion by 1995 can be ruled ineligi ble for federal price-support prog rams, loans, insurance and many other USDA programs. “It’s crucial that fanners use the 1993 and 1994 growing seasons to get their compliance plans imple mented,” said Dan McCain, field specialist at the Conservation Technology Information Center (CTIC) in Indiana. Compliance plans which had to be filed with local Soil Conser vation Service offices by 1990 were only a first step, McCain said. “Making the actual changes in the field may be more of a chal lenge than it seemed when plan ning them on paper,” he said. Crop residues a key Farmers have many options for reducing soil erosion. For exam ple, they can change rotations in favor of crops that cover the ground better, such as small grains, com, hay or pasture. They can farm across slopes instead of up and down them, or install terraces or a strip-cropping system. But the most popular option, according to McCain, is crop residue management doing less tillage in order to leave more dead stalks or straw on the soil surface. At least three-fourths of the com pliance plans include residue man agement, he said. The most intensive form of residue management is no-till fanning, where fanners complete ly eliminate plowing, disking, and cultivating. The only disturbance of the soil occurs when the planter makes a slot, drops in the seed, and closes up the slot again. All crop residues remain on the soil surface. Mulch tillage popular However, many farmers don’t want to go all the way to no-till. So they’re learning how to do just enough tillage to help control weeds, mix fertilizer and herbi cides into the soil, and prepare a seedbed. It’s called “mulch tillage.” Farmers who practice mulch til lage don’t use implements that bury all crop residues, as the tradi tional moldboard plow does. Field tools such as chisel plows and field cultivators, that lift the soil rather than invert the residue, are more common. But mulch-tillers get many oi the benefits of tillage. Mixing fer tilizer into the soil places it where it will be available to plant roots and prevents potential losses of nitrogen fertilizers to the atmosphere. Weed control can be another benefit Loren Bode, University ol Illinois agricultural engineer, said tillage alone reduced weed pres sures by 50 to 80 percent in Uni versity studies. Thank You for your patronage in 1992 We’re looking forward to serving you in 1993! Your Custom Grain Roasters Dale L. Schnupp RD 6 Lebanon, PA 717-865-6611 ivld N. Groff Melvin Horst RD 1 Lewlstown, PA Lincoln Uni., PA (717) 568-1420 (215) 869-8834 Practices To Combat Erosion Incorporating herbicides What’s more, some highly effective herbicides require tillage to incorporate them into the soil For example, a 10-year weed control study conducted by Dr Leon Wrage at South Dakota State University showed thatEradicane a preplant incorporated (PPI) her bicide for com, had an average grass control rating of 87 to 91 percent. 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