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Soil Penetration, Loosening Help Improve Corn Standability
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day at tha farm ahowtd vlaltora tha Importance of Ullage and how to allmlnata
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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
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