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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
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LANDISVILLE (Lancaster
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appointed Pughtown Agway,
Spring City, as a sales representa
tive for Chester County.
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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
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center.
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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
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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-
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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
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“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.