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PENNSYLVANIA MASTER CORN GROWERS ASSOC., INC.
Kreider
Bushels
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in soybeans, of which about 50
acres arc double-cropped with
wheat. He also maintains some
pasture ground.
Most of the acreage is in
minimum tillage, using a disc
and field cultivator, with some
no-till ground. The soil is a
Hagerstown-Duffield clay
loam, which drains well and
readily holds soil nutrients.
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He rotates from soybeans to
com. ‘ ‘ I usually pick a field that
I had soybeans in previously,”
said Kreider. “For three years,
it’s never been the same field.”
Kreider believes he has
“some good dirt here,” he said.
“Our fertility levels arc good
and it’s good soil.”
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Richard Krelder farms about 250 acres on two farms, including his father,
Joseph’s, land north of Schaefferstown. Richard grows about 125 acres of
corn altogether, which he raises to feed his 150 head of beef cattle. The rest
Krelder sells to a local farmer.
steer manure down, but aims
for about 50-70 units of nitro
gen per acre for his com.
At planting time (on April
28, 1994), Kreider used a six
row com planter. He uses a
4-18-4 fertilizer on the row. At
sidedressing, when the com is
about a foot high, Kreider uses
a special six-row cultivator
with large fertilizer boxes con
taining dry urea.
Kreider said that using the
right kind of seed com helped,
used in conjunction with proper
fertility. He soils tests regular
ly. He aims to place down
roughly a unit of nitrogen per
bushel of com as his yield goal.
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“I believe that my cultiva
tion and sidedressing is a
help,” said Kreider. “I think
that really loosens the ground
and I get the nitrogen down a
little closer to the time it needs
it.”
But the combination of prop
er fertility levels, proper seed
com, proper field population
per acre, and ultimately “time
ly rains” go into raising a ban
ner, contest-winning crop.
He thinks harvesting 210
bushels per acre of com on his
farm is possible. “The hybrids
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20 years ago 150 bushels per
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