The Official PubHcation l£r The PENNSYLVANIA MASTER CORN GROWERS ASSOC. SPECIAL SECTION IN LANCASTER FARMING FEBRUARY 22 advertisers plan now TO RESERVE YOUR SPACE PHONE 717-626-1164 717-394-3047 Hi * * % % % u DEADLINE FRIDAY FEBRUARY 14 OR Soil Penetration, Loosening Help Improve Corn Standability Conoorvotlon la avldant on tho Long Acraa Potato Farm, Tlonaata. A flaw day at tha farm ahowtd vlaltora tha Importance of Ullage and how to allmlnata compaction. Commodity Analyst To Speak At Conference tTVILLE GRAN' rv' - P ' _ overwinter In *Mibv c u>ihing or ANDY ANDREWS ,„ ach «*-*««« d eas.ly by i scatter Farming Stan fur cov er and cm no LANDI £ -U State weed •P«j“ 811 l Curran. Penn Xuld fall v,c ™ SSssks 3 ® “^rissr?*- SSKbSS? fIsSSS 3iSSsF (Q)IM f MM PENNSYLVANIA MASTER CORN GROWERS ASSOC., INC. Com Talk, Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 25, IM7—Paga 1 fore Than 300 Attend Croi MSljaK PENMSVI.VWM K»sia CORN eBOWERS ASSOt, WC. growers , nfobmat.oh feature interviews STATE & NATIONAL associates news . pblsidbmts newsletter Field Di At Lon Acre, ANDY ANDREWS Lancaster Farming Staff TIONESTA (Clarion Co.) — Despite rainy conditions, methods to improve water absoiption and effective use of staner fertilizer allowed a com producer here to gamer 145 bushcls/acre of shelled com this season The partners that comprise Long Acres Potato Farm know what the challenges of the past growing season brought; acool, wet spring followed by a wet summer followed by well, despite all that, the com went in on time and did well. About 350 com growers and agri-industry representatives, including a large continent of Penn Slate extension staff, were on hand to show the results of Bt com, com variety trials, and use of starter and sidedicss fer tilizers at the Crop Field Day held at Long Acres in Septem ber last year. According to one of the part ners, Clarence Beck, who helped stage the field day, tbe number one" I*— 1 *— Beck said dial the partner ship uses a four-year roiauon com, followed by soybeans or oats, followed by potatoes or wheat, then back to com The important thing to remember, noted Beck, is that the farni doesn't follow com with com "We also have learned to subsoil the ground to 18 inches deep and keep the soil real loose to benefit the root sys tem," said Beck Even in a dry year, he said, subsoilmg is "very beneficial” for a health ier, more productive crop The wet weather this year was a teal challenge It "held us back in terms of subsoiling and ullage," Beck said What farthers ate discover ing, he indicated, was that the use of a starter fertilizer in the row with a lot of urea can have detrimental effects on a crop The fertilizer can bum the root system. What Long Acres has done is make use of a monaramonlated phosphorous (MAP) and sulphur-mam*-' u u <0 SS U % % % HS IS IS % mS'W f