A34-Lancnt*r Vanning, Saturday, Siptombaf 2, t99;i Station Examines Wa NEW HOLLAND (Lancaster Co.) —Hundreds of visitors to the Pioneer Open House and Field Day mid-week here at the new research station were shown how Pughtown Agway Appointed Sales Representative LANDISVILLE (Lancaster Co.) Hoffman Seeds, Inc., has appointed Pughtown Agway, Spring City, as a sales representa tive for Chester County. Pughtown Agway will handle the full line of Hoffman products, including Funk’s G® Brand hybrid com. Pughtown Agway has been operating in the community for 80 years. The company carries a com plete line of livestock and horse feeds, as well as pet foods and sup plies, and recently opened a garden center. The turf tractor for people who despise non-performing investments The Steiner does the work of a dozen different single-purpose machines. Better. All it takes is a few minutes to change attachments and you’re ready to mow, move dirt and snow, edge, blow, chip, aerate and more. All as you move effortlessly across your grounds on a machine with an articulating frame and hydrostatic transmission. The Steiner. The turf tractor for people who believe in value-based investments and hard work. Test drive one for yourself at your local Stein er dealer. Financing available through Dealers Credit. Inc (800) 735-1903 See Us At The Great York Interstate Fair Sept. 8-16 Ask For A Live Demonstration At Our Display Behind Memorial Hall Along HENRY H. HARTMAN 2300 Black Rock Road, Hanover, PA 17331 717-637-3741 FAX 717-633-5051 We com research is changing. Varieties are being selected to provide com growers with a grea ter harvestable yield, reduced crop losses and lowered input costs, and increases in the value of grain and forages harvested. Research under way at the sta tion, on which construction was finished early this year, is examin ing how com varieties are bred, what genetic technology is trying to do, how varieties are produced to fight diseases, and to grow com to provide maximum yield and nutrition. Dave Whitaker, research project manager of the station, said the site is one of four silage research sta tions and one of 26 com research stations in the country that works with small plots to study new var ieties. The New Holland site is the eastern research station, providing information to growers from Illi nois to New York and south to North Carolina. This is the 11th growing season at the New Hol land site. A key area of research is the sil age demonstration sites, especially narrow row technology. Studies in New York have shown that silage harvest has improved by 10 per cent with no adverse effect on the quality of the silage, according to Whitaker. In a test plot. Pioneer 3525 was planted May 16 on one plot at a population of 30,000 THE STEINER ATURFTRACTORVSTTHAIXFFERENTTWIST Old Farm Drive troducts Made In USAI ««// iroudi s To ‘Fine-Tune’ Corn Varieties <* Com brooding demonstrations were provided by Lou Chapko, Pioneer plant breed er from Michigan, far right, at the Pioneer Field Day on Tuesday. plants per acre on 30-inch rows. On the 15-inch rows, plant popula tion reached 40,000 per acre. The results “lodf really good,” said Whitaker, Donald Specker, field sales agronomist for Pioneer in New York, said the narrow raws provided “quite a yield boost” and may prove useful for large scale operations. Some dairies in Wyoming County, N.Y. are mak- (GSI) TOP DRY SYSTEMS FLOORS SUPPORTS FLEX-FLO FEED SYSTEMS SAFETY ACCESS EQUIPMENT aFs RQI *«,v % * ing use of the narrow row technol ogy with success. Special adjustments arc neces sary for the equipment at planting and harvest, according to narrow com row experts. In the future, growers may lose generic #2 yellow hybrids, said Joe Keaschall. Pioneer com research director, southern com belt and Italy. Keaschall said that hybrids will be produced for specific use. For example, he said com is being developed that will make for a Grain Systems, Inc. PROFITABLE FARMING automatic farm systems 608 Evergreen Rd. t Lebanon, PA 17042 (717) 274-5333 FARM BINS COMMERCIAL FLAT 1 BOTTOM AND HOP PER BOTTOM TANKS BULK FEED TANKS GRAIN DRYERS GALVANIZED FANS AND HEATERS Cheek Our Low Prices Before You fty “better hog feed.” Com research is geared to produce a hybrid that has improved energy value, better resistance to mold, lower phytate, and modified protein content. Altogether, this "fine tuning” of plants, according to Keaschall, will benefit the com grower. The New Holland research building measures 10,000 square feet Research plots encompass about 61 acres at the site, planted mostly to com this year and irrigated.