Good Field (ContiniMd from Pago 6) soil conditions." he said. The Maximucks planted the Solebury field on May 11, 1993, in 30-inch rows at a population of 25,300 plants. The seed used was Dekalb DK623. The field was harvested on Nov. 8. Maximuck said that they use a wide range of maturity dates with Dekalb seed. They don’t do any sidedress ing. The only other time they spend in the field is scouting for insects and weed pressure and spraying. The weed pressure they experienced was morning glory, hemp dogbane, bur The Maximucks have been Inspecting at m\ igup <9 menl. Here, Matthew sprays lubricant on a chain to his no-till soybean planter. ROOTWORIMS BEWARE. YOUR TOUGHEST ENEMY JUST GOT TOUGHER NOW LABELED FOR USB WITH ACCENT* HERBICIDE MORE HERBICIDE OPTIONS. Applied banded, COUNTER 20CR is labeled for use with ACCENT 1 and virtually any other herbicide. So you don’t have to sacrifice rootworm control for weed control. LOWEST DUST. COUNTER 20CR is formulated with soybean oil, and the pellets don’t crumble during handling and shipping. So there’s virtually NO dust. For information about COUNTER 20CR. see us. A I ( , , i, ' , V|, i (ii } tl i , , i ~ Or For More Information Call Your Cyanamld Rep. ' 4'ilflf ' ,I I j.lj h H ■ 'W n :r Conditions cucumber, panicum, and Cana da thistle. Because of the com residue from last year, there is a problem with slugs one of the reasons why Matthew said they are considering using some foim of zone-tillage on this year’s crop. The crop was not irrigated. He and his father have been using 30-inch row spacing for the past 20 years. They believe it is important to boost the plant population and place the stalks closer together, with anywhere from 6-inch to B'/i -inch seed placing, depending on variety. One farm that Matthew clas sifies as “wet” has a small window of opportunity. When COUNTER* 20CR* systemic insecticide-nematicide gives com growers all the most desirable insecticide features in one outstanding product. UNIQUE PELLET. COUNTER 20CR has the active ingredient evenly distributed throughout each pellet. The pellets break down gradually, providing controlled release for longer term effectiveness. OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE. No other com insecticide can match the performance and broad-spectrum control of COUNTER. Cora treated with COUNTER has bigger, stronger roots, for healthier plants and higher yields. See The Dealer Nearest You •iii r ! lf I' l ''! 'll ' 'll' ■' , il !'• ' ' the conditions are right, that Com Talk, Lancaater Farming, Saturday, Mich 19,1994—Page 7 farm has the priority and is done. “Because if you miss that window, then it will be wet until the middle of July,” he said One of the problems they experienced this year was a lack of rain after the anhydrous ammonia application. ‘‘lf it’s another dry year and we put anhydrous down and we don’t get any rain on top of.it, we definitely want to run some type of tillage piece over it so we get better seed-to-soil con tact” he said. For weed control, they use Bicep and Gramoxone for bum down and Furadan for insects. They will be using liquid Fura dan this year. For additional insect control, they use Banvel Wew 0D)1N TMM NIWO PENNSYLVANIA MASTER CORN GROWERS ASSOC., INC. . u\ jg com grown on the farm, is packaged In containers, such as this one held by Matthew, for sale. and Accent, “Every field is different,’’ he said. “We won’t just mix up and just go spray everything. “We do a lot of scouting. Dad does a lot of that,” he said. What has helped the past year’s com crop has been the Am*: !'V 1 ' timely rains. “Most of our com this year had just enough rain to keep it going, which I think really helped,” said Maximuck. “We were drying up a few different times. But then we’d get a quarter-inch or something, just enough to keep the com going.” This is the third year that the Recently, because of the heavy snow and Ice In the area, a roof over a grain drier collapsed. The Maxlmucks have spent a lot of time taking care of the farm’s older structures because of bad weather. (Turn to Pago 8)
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