NEW HOLLAND (Lancaster
Co.) The annual tour and sum
mer picnic for fertilizer and chemi
cal dealers and their applicators
sponsored by joint effort of Ciba,
PMC, The Lancaster County
Extension Service and the adult
farmer program at Eastern Lancas
ter County School District was
held last Friday. Three school bus
loads of participants left the New
Holland Community Park and
traveled to the Paul Kurtz farm,
located south of town, to view pre
and post herbicide options in com
and soybeans, and to evaluate
Canada thistle, and burcumumber
trials. In addition, field trials in no
til plantings and an educational
program for com borer and root
worm control was held.
Dennis Calvin, professor, Penn State, gives a lecture on the control of corn bore at
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Ciba/FMC Hold Annual New Holland Farm Tour.
“This annual tour brings
together the companies and their
The cutworm trial plots proved interesting to the tour
visitors.
representatives to see how the
chemical and herbicide trials have
gone,” said Jeff Stoltzfus. adult
education instructor at Garden
Spot “Not only do they see the
products and learn what different
rates of application have worked,
we try to have something of special
education, as well.
“We have a lot of butcucumber
and Canada thistle here, so it
makes a good place for the scien
tist to see the products in action. In
addition, we have special trial beds
Plant, First Cut Early
(Contlnuad from Pag* A 26)
reduce net return per acre because
of additional costs compared with
seeding with no nurse crop or
herbicide.
Hall recommended that only if
at least 50-60 percent of the dry
matter is weeds after first harvest
should a herbicide be used. Also, if
the stand starts to thin down, and
weed pressure increases dramati
cally, herbicide treatments should
be used.
If weed infestation is not antici
pated (based on previous weed
problems in the field) to be severe
during alfalfa establishment, the
researchers do not recommend the
use of a nurse crop or herbicides
for weed control.
Whatever the decision is, Hall
said it is important not to “ignore
management techniques and herbi
cides and expect to get away with
it.”
Also at the field day. Dr. Greg
Roth, Penn State assistant agro
nomy professor, indicated that he
has received many reports from
around the state that there has been
“lousy stands in com.” There
have been scattered reports that
com establishment has been spot
ty. with many of those fields
planted between May 1-10. Also,
heights are irregular.
According to Roth, this could be
the result of insect and fungi dam
age to the seed. Because of the
where we released cutworms to see
how much damage is done in a
short period of time and how the
products worked.
The New Holland Ciba/FMC
tour proves to be one of the most
popular yearly tours in Lancaster
County. A noon lunch was pro
vided by the companies. Tara Sop
er, Ciba representative, and Steve
Fisher, FMC representative,
hosted the tour and lunch.
warm winter, plant pests overwin
tered and made their presence
known.
In some cases, seed germination
in fields was reduced as much as
20 percent 10 percent higher
than the standard. Germinating
seed may have been under attack
by seed corn maggots, wire
worms, and seed rot.
In the field at the research sta
tion, planted May 1, germination
was reduced from 21,000 plants to
16,000 plants per acre.
Roth recommended that grow
ers follow a standard three-way
seedbox treatment, combining var
ious seed fungicide and pesticide
treatments, to protect the seed.
He indicated more research on
the problem was needed.
Also at the Held day, those
attending had a chance to look at a
“weed screen,” to show the
effects of different herbicide treat
ments on a wide variety of weeds.
Ed Werner, research tech agro
nomist and master’s candidate at
Penn State, provided information
on an ongoing study of economic
threshold study of velvetleaf in
com. Dave Messersmith, graduate
research assistant in the depart
ment of agronomy, provided some
detail on the bur cucumber study at
Penn State.
Also, herbicide studies looked
at weed control in no-till and con
ventional till com.