Vol. 41 No. 36 Weather in the region finally gave farmersa chance to do some serious harvesting. After fields and crops dried out from showers early in the week, combines and hay making equipment could be seen almost anywhere you looked. Combihes in wheat began in earnest in Lancaster County late Wed nesday afternoon. In Northampton County, one farmer reported on Thurs day that grain moisture was quite varied from field to field and even in the same field where ridges and valleys were drying out at different times. In Berks and Lehigh counties, combining was well under way late Thursday afternoon. According to the Pennsylvania Agricultural Statistics Service, based on State Budget Maintains Funding For Agriculture VERNON ACHENBACH JR. Lancaster Fanning Staff HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.) The Pennsylvania Gener al Assembly recently approved 100 Turn Out For Weed Day ANDY ANDREWS Lancaster Farming Staff LANDISVILLE (Lancaster Co.) —“We’ve had decent rainfall here at the station. The com crop looks better than it’s looked in the sue years that I’ve been here.” Dr. Bill Curran, Penn State weed specialist,- was assessing some of the results of Roundup Ready narrow-row com trials when he realized how good a year it has been for com and weed growth. Curran and other specialists spoke on Monday at the Penn State-sponsored annual weed field day at the Southeast Research and Extension Center. About 100 far mers and agri-industry representa tives spent the day looking at com and soybean herbicide trials con ducted during the growing season at the center. 604 Per Copy and the governor signed a $16,375 million 1996-97 budget for state government which included resto ration of funds for the University of Pennsylvania School of Veter- For Curran, the year has brought mixed blessings. While moisture and temperature has been mote than adequate for plant growth, too much moisture has left little resi duals to handle later weed flushes. Overall, though, when visitors have come to the field day in the past (over the last six years there have been about three droughts in the region), “usually it’s sort of a desert. But it looks pretty good this year,” Curran said. Penn State has been conducting several trials with Roundup Ready com. The com variety, which has a projected release date of some quantities in the 1997-1998 grow ing season, will allow a broad based application of Roundup her bicide pqst-emergence. The trials are also looking at the use of Roundup on the com in IS- inch Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 13,-4996 inary Medicine, and increases of $2 million each for Penn State Uni versity Extension and agricultural research. State Secretary of Agriculture versus 30-inch rows. “One of the limitations with com and post-emergence weed control has been the lack of residu- (Turn to Pag* A3O) Boyd Appointed To Preservation Board HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.) On Tuesday, Pennsylvania Agriculture Secretary Charles C. Brosius appointed Darvin E. Boyd, Akron, to the state Agriculture Land Preservation Board. Boyd, senior vice president and director of the agrifinance depart ment for CorcStales Bank, fills the ag lender position on the board vacated by Bill Hughes, Berks County. Boyd is the second Lancaster county resident to serve on the board, joining farmer Ken Rutt of the acreage planted, the Keystone state’s farmers will harvest 190,000 acres of winter wheat this year. That’s up three percent from last year. The 75,000 acres of barley are already harvested, the same as last year. Corn acreage to be harvested as grain is estimated at 1,050,000 acres, up seven percent. And soybean acreage for harvest Is estimated at 285,000, down 10 percent from last year. The harvesting scene above was captured along Rhoads Road looking east across the valley of corn and wheat strips between Krumnsville and Steins Corner in Berks County just south of the Lehigh County line. Photo by Everett Newewenger, meneglng editor. Charles Brosius, said he was “delighted” with the support for his department for market deve lopment and research, and also for the Penn State funding increase. Others have also issued state ments of satisfaction with the budget, as many continued an almost decade-long description of the state budget as “austere.” The overall budget was close to that which Gov. Tom Ridge prop osed as of early June. That propos al, however, eliminated specific Quarryvillc. Boyd was appointed to a four-year term. Created in 1989, the board is responsible for the oversight of the state farmland protection program. “Mr. Boyd’s long record of ser vice and leadership in the agricul tural community, experience in state government, and demon strated commitment to the preser vation of our farmland will be val uable assets as he begins his ser vice on the board,” said Brosius, who chain the board. Boyd has served as president of Four Sections line item funding for University of Pennsylvania’s New Bolton Ani mal Center and for its School of Veterinary Medicine. In Gov. Tom Ridge’s proposal, Penn State Extension was targeted to receive a slight increase in funding. In response to the governor’s proposal (which called for reduc tions in state spending generally except for the prison system which got all but $ 10 million of the prop- (Turn to Page A 22) me Lancaster Farmland Trust from 1992-1995, where he is now an honorary trustee. He received the Trust’s distinguished service award in November 1995. He also served as treasurer of the Lancaster County Vote Yes To Save Farm land Committee. Boyd has a master’s degree in public administration from Penn State. He served on the board of the Farm and Home Foundation of Lancaster County. He is chairman of the Lancaster County Human Relations Commission. $27.50 Per Year
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