Ag Showcase Day Provides
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Managing Editor
FAIR HILL, Md. —For the
15th consecutive year, one of the
major farm events at the Cecil
County Fair was the Ag Showcase
Day at Fair Hill Farm Tuesday.
Once again, farmers had the
opportunity to see competing
brands of equipment working side
by side in the field.
‘This is better than other field
days or fairs where you only get to
see the equipment on display,” said
Dave Wilson, Cecil County exten
sion agent “Here the equipment is
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tor around the field at Ag Showcase Day.
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working, and if you are interested,
you can even drive the piece of
machinery yourself.”
A full schedule of events and
educational demonstrations were
held. Gary Cottman, John Deere
Product Rep., spoke on Global
Positioning Systems, and Dr.
Wesley Musser, extension eco
nomist University of Maryland,
gave guidelines for selecting the
proper size of equipment on your
farm.
The manure spreader calibration
demonstration showed fanners
how to figure the rate of applica-
tion with the equipment on their
own farm. Hughy Salfner, Cecil
County nutrient management
agent, demonstrated with a sheet of
plastic laid in the path of the
spreading manure. You take two
10’ x 10* square sheets of plastic at
two different locations in the field.
Weigh the manure caught on the
sheets, and get the average number
of pounds per sheet. Then take the
number of pounds times 21.78 and
divide by the square feet in the
plastic sheet (100). This gives you
the rate of application per acre.
“This is a very simple equation
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To find the rate of application by your manure spreader,
you first weigh the pounds spread on a 10’ x 10’ plastic
sheet. Demonstrating are. from left, John Purdue, Hartford
County nutrient management consultant; Dave Wilson,
Cecil County agent; and Hughy Salfner, Cecil County nutri
ent management consultant.
to obtain a very important answer,”
Salfner said. “If you know the soil
test, the nutrients in the manure,
and the crop you want to grow, you
can figure how much manure you
need to apply.”
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Salfner also showed that often
more than half the nutrients are lost
if the manure is not incorporated
into the soj.l immediately after
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Some of the other demonstra
tions included: round bailers; TMR
mixer, bale chopper; conservation
tillage; compact tractor, and deer
fencing.
Participating equipment dealers
were listed as: Ag Industrial. Ris
ing Sun; Biggs Inc., Rising Sun;
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