'IK3B-Uncaster Farming, Saturday, February 21,1998 (Continued from Pago A 37) Also at the Crops Conference, awards were selected for the Pen nsylvania Soybean Yield Contest, sponsored by the Pennsylvania Soybean Promotion Board. The contest is managed by John Yocum, manager of the Penn State Extension Service Southeast Pen nsylvania Laboratory in Landisville. First place and two tickets to the Commodity Classic in Long Beach this month*went to Jon E. Stutz man from Berks County. He harvested 67.79 bushels per acre using Gutwein 7410. Second place and a paid weekend at die Hershey Resort went to Nelson Beam, Chester County. Beam harvested 67.32 Mmier Itsumce kim ''We're Here To Serve" H FARMERS - We write multi-peril crop insurance. If you had coverage through your local FSA office last summer, we will be glad to help you with crop insurance in 1998. Ycu can choose your agent! 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Fifty-three percent had plants per acre of 200,000 or more and 94 percent had good weed control. • High Quality Milk Premiums • Sensible Haulin' •A Local, Family-owned Dairy - Large enough to Serve your Milk Marketing Needs - Small enough to Know You! Corn Awards Com winners from the 5-Acrc Com Club contest are, first place, shelled grain class, three-year average award, regular harvest size, Jeff Mitchell, Reinholds, for an average of 197.5 bushels per acre. Second went to Matthew Maximuck, Doyles town, for an average of 191.5 bushels and third to Larry E. Moyer, Mertztown, for an average of 187.4 bushels. In the 3 acre plus harvest size, first place went to Clarence A. Keener, Jr., Manheim, for an aver age of 210.5 bushels, second to Floyd Kurtz, Fleetwood, for an average of 194.5 bushels and third to Lee Spangler, Mifflinburg, for an average of 189.8 bushels. 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Second went to Joseph Matejik, Mechanicsville. for 211.9 bushels per acre and third to Jeff Mitchell. Reinholds, for 206 bushels per acre. In the three-acre plus harvest size, first place went to Stanley and Richard Crone, Danville, for 213.3 bushels per acre, second to Lee Spangler, Mif flinburg, for 208.5 bushels per 0k rm m Qfh 'rr (mm CUSTOM MADE MGERS He^OU.Cons— yuur neeai _f?\ Galvanized • Carbon • Stainless . nn Avai\att e ' n F " 9h fSiaies AUGER INSTALLATIONS ✓ In feedlots ✓ In drying systems ✓ Commercial applications ✓ At feedmills or elevators ✓ Around poultry & dairy barns ✓ At your gram bins or bulk tanks ✓ Replacement Augers for feed farm Call Us For Custom Specifications mixers am acre, and third to James Hershey, Elizabethtown, for 199.3 bushels per acre. In the ear com class, hand harvest, first place went to David Schantz, Alburtis, for 225 bushels per acre, second to Joseph Albright, Landisburg, for 198.6 bushels per acre, and third to Ken neth L. 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