Page 22-Com Talk, Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 8,1994 rv a m » t ww-,. , Dupont Teams Up With PMCGA For New Members €®]M fMM mm PENNSYLVANIA MASTER COHN GROWERS ASSOC., INC. « Pennsylvania Master Corn Growers Association National Corn Growers Association 194 Membership Application Name Farm Name Address ite/Zii Count Phone Farm Acres Corn Acres New Member PMCGA and NCQA dues for 1994: $3O Special! Three years for s7si Make checks payable to; PMCGA Send to: PMCGA P. O. Box 304 State College, PA 16804' Try Something Newll Growers who harvest more than 5 acres of com each year and sign up for a least three year membership' qualify to recieve a free unit of seed com of their choice from the participating seed company listed Mow: Please indicate your choice if you qualify: Seedway Doebler’s Chemgro Hyperformer Funk's G Agway Dekalb NC+ Pioneer □ Check here if your eliglible for the Accent new member program (ggb Grain Systems, THE #1 CHOICE IN • QUALITY GRAIN BINS • AIRSTREAM DRYING EQUIPMENT •HOPPER TANKS • DRYING FLOORS • PLUS MUCH MORE! or Renewal From the People who bring you only the best in QUALITY FARM BINS - COMMERCIAL BINS - GALVANIZED FANS - FLOORS - SUPPORTS - TOP DRY SYSTEMS - FLEX-FLO FEED SYSTEMS - SONES GRAIN SYSTEMS Muncy, PA (717) 584-2282 ROCKSPRING (Centre Co.) —The PMCG A board of direc tors recently announced at its August board meeting a new membership program in coop eration with Dupont. This prog ram is targeted at recruiting new members of PMCGA. Any Pennsylvania corn grower who joins PMCGA for three years for the first time is eligible to recieve a free four acre sample of Accent herbi cide ($lOO retail value). Selecting hybrids is probably the most important decision that a com producer makes each year. It is not unusual for one hybrid to out yield another by 30 bushels or more. The difference in profi tability between the high yield ing varieties and low yielding varieties in the Pennsylvania Yield test may be as much as $lOO/acre. At 80,000 kernels/ bag, and 20,000 plants/acrc, a bag will plant four acres. When comparing the best varieties with poorest varieties, that bag of seed com that plants four acres is worth about $4OO more than the bag of poor seed com. Numerous tests have shown that choosing the right variety is probably the most important decision that a com grower can make. You can buy seed for $5O to $BO a bag. Seed with a fancy price tag isn’t necessari ly a good indication of the kind of net profit that it will pro duce. One must always figure net return. When there is a pos- LIVESTOCK EQUIPMENT Corn Hybrid Selection DEL VOIGHT Lebanon County Extension Agent Hybrid Selection Dupont representative Duane Hobbs, who was instru mental in developing the prog ram, said, “We are really inter ested in seeing com growers belonging to organizations like PMCGA and NCGA to face the issues that challenge com pro ducers in today’s world.” The offer is available to any one who grows more than five acres of com and has not been a member of PMCGA before and who has not received a Accent sible $lOO an acre difference, that $lO to $2O extra per bag of seed is actually a very minor consideration. How To Figure Profitability Farmers traditionally choose hybrids according to yield, with secondary consideration given to standability and third ly to dry down for and early harvest. But now, with the ris ing cost of energy, the rate of dry down is becoming more important. More farmers are looking for hybrids that dry down more rapidly in the field. Full season hybrids generally yield more. However, some earlier hybrids approach full season hybrids in yield and may be several points lower in moisture. Com starts to lose moisture in the field as it approaches physiological maturity. Phys iological maturity is the time at which the plant adds no more diy weight to the kernel. At this point a “black layer” forms just under the kernel tip. Once this point is reached it is only a matter of drying it down to harvestable condition. P. L. ROHRER & PRO.. INC. sample in the past. There is a limit of one sample per fanning operation. In addi tion new, three-year members can elect to participate in our Membership Incentive Prog ram and elect to try a free unit of seed com from one of the parti cipating companies on the membership application. If you’ve been thinking about joining PMCGA, now’s the time! Clip the form from Com Talk and send it in. Important What’s The Tradeoff In Yield Versus Dry Down? A hybrid harvested at 28-percent moisture must yield about five bushel more than a hybrid harvested at 22-percent moisture to pay for drying costs. It all depends on yield, grain market price, grain mois ture, and your expenses in dry ing. If you dry your own com it will likely cost you $l2-$l5 an acre to dry com from 28-per cent to 22-percent moisture. With com from 2.75 to 3.00 a bushel, one would have to have a five bushel increase in yield for the wetter com in order to cover the price of drying. If you take your com to the elevator to be dried, it will cost you 5-6 cents per point of moisture. So if die price was $3.00 a bushel and the differ ence in moisture was 6 points you would receive 30 cents per bushel LESS for the wetter com. If your yield level was at 100 bu/acre, then the cost of drying the wet variety down to the level of the drier variety would be approximately $3O/acrc and the yield differ ence would have to be 10 (Turn to Pag* 24)
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