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
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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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John Moser, background, left and John Bray, standing next to him in the white shirt,
spoke to more than 100 producers and agri-industry representatives about narrow
row com at the Agway Crop Day on Wednesday.
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