Crop Day Draws More Than 100 HERSHEY (Dauphin Co.) “With the amount of moisture we’ve seen this year, you could plant com in 10-inch rows and gel good yield response.” said John Bray, sales representative for Reading Bone Agway in Millards ville, Lebanon County. Bray, along with many other Agway representatives, spoke Wednesday during a tour of the Agway Research Center at the Milton Hershey School Farm. While hot, dry weather kept many on the fifclds cutting hay, of the 200 who registered by phone, more than 100 producers and agri industry representatives attended the annual crop day at Hershey School. Along with Bray, John Moser, also a sales representative for Reading Bone Agway in Millards ville, spoke about some of the con ventional com compared to narrow row com trials. Comparisons between minimum till versus no till were also made. On the conventional plots, com was planted April 24 in 30- inch rows at 27,000 plants per acre into soybean stubble. In comparison, the same day, on 15-inch rows, com was planted at 29,000 per acre, with good standability because of good growing condi tions. Both crops have com stalks measuring 10 feet tall. Regarding narrow row com uses, according to Moser, “I can see using it for silage there’s a little bit of advantage,” he said. “But I don’t see it for grain com.” The narrow-row com had about 140 units of nitrogen applied on soil that is “terrific,” according to Bray. Response to soil additives such as sulphur has also been good on the Hershey School soils that test high for phosphorous and potassium. Overall growing conditions for most crops has been good in the fields compared to last year, when A LESSON WELL LEARNED... LANCASTER FARMING'S CLASSIFIED ADS GET RESULTS! “Wood Master” Outdoor Wood Furnace Hot Air Hot Water Rosenberry Stoves fields were “bone dry, like every where else,” Moser said. The no-till narrow com was Agway 657, a 109-day variety. Soybean trials woe also a major portion of the crop day tours. Agway APK 403 beans were planted May 19, drilled into 14-inch rows. Early beans were planted at 200,000 plants per acre. “Beans need their space,” said Matt Grajewski, territorial seed manager for Agway southeast reg ion. Grajewski said earlier variety beans don’t do well under higher populations at 7-inch rows. In variety comparison trials, APK 401 had better standability than 403. In the coming years, new varieties APK 392 and 395 will replace the old. In addition, a bush variety of bean, APK 364 with good standability, continues to be Agway’s best-selling bean, according to Grajewski. Also, growers examined APK 386 STS varieties, in addition to the short-season APK 364 and long-season APK 399 Roundup Ready varieties. Grajewski cau tioned growers to know where their beans are, because Roundup spread on beans not Roundup Ready is deadly. Growers also looked to “the queen of forages” in Agway’s Excaliber n variety alfalfa. In addition, seed depth, weed screen, and insecticide and inoculant use by a variety of manufacturers in addition to a global positioning system (GPS) demonstration, for age varieties and preservatives, and a Messicks Farm Equipment Demo rounded out the day. “The focus of the day is on applied technology what the research stations can do with the material in commercial plots to help customers with the selection process,” said Roy Aber, sales manager for Agway Agricultural Products. This is the third year for the crop day. 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