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MANHEIM (Lancaster
Co.) To develop hybrid com
and soybeans for die mid-Atlantic
slates, the DeKalb Plant Genetics
farm is ideally situated because of
the unique plant environment of
the local area. A field day at the
farm was held Thursday, and Brent
Godshalk, plant breeder and farm
manager, said they wanted to show
their customers die new hybrids in
com, soybeans and sorghum. In
addition, new bt com resistant to
com bore and hybrids resistant to
herbicide were shown.
Correction
At last week’s Elizabethtown
Fair Sale of Champions, some
facts were incorrectly reported.
Brandon Ziegler, Lititz, sold his
grand champion selling lamb to
John Ebersole of Speedwell Con-
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Corn Harvest Said Ahead
The stadon is one of 25 com
breeding stations and three soy
bean stations in the U.S. Godshalk
has a large breeding program on
the farm and alsodoes a lot of work
with silage com.
Greg Roth, agronomist, Penn
State, said the crops in Lancaster
County look much better than
many other areas but thought may
be the yields would not be quite as
good as they looked.
In many other areas of the state
Roth said the season has been a
struction, Manheim. The supreme
champion sheep was shown by
Zimmerman, Akron.
In the story of the current state
FFA president Daria Herr’s name
was inadvertedly interchanged
with Tonya. We apologize for
these errors.
roller coaster. Plant populations
were reduced in some fields from
seedling diseases. Later the rains
came and caused the stalks to grow
so rapidly that storms caused green
snap problems.
Gray leaf spot then became a
problem, but the dry weather
caused that disease to diminish in
intensity.
Now, rapid advancing crop
Brent Godshalk, DeKalb research farm manager, explains the com breeding pro
cess to one of the tour groups at the field day.
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maturity has given given some
drought stress on shallow soils.
While the weather has been dry,
nitrate problems have not surfaced
because rains have not followed
the drought.
Roth estimated that the com
harvest is two weeks ahead of
schedule, and some silage has
become dry faster than farmers
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With an early harvest comes the
opportunity for fall tillage and the
planting of cover crops.
'This has been a frustrating year
for com growers,” Roth said. “But
I think we will do reasonably well
on a state-wide basis. In terms of
yield, nationally USDA is report
ing some rather good yields, but
many com farmers do not believe
those yields will materialize.”
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