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Soil Organic Contents
On Chester County
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testing on the soil. Also, no
manure is applied.
With high organic content,
good CEC, and impressive
ENR, the soil was able to bold
moisture, despite the drought
Mitchell was recently hon
ored as the champion of the
3-year average awards, shelled
com tegular harvest size from a
plot that garnered 206 bushels
per acre in 1997. Average yield
for three years was 197.5
bushels per acre.
Mitchell received his 5-Acte
Com Club Contest Award at
the Pennsylvania Com and
Soybean Conference recently
at the Holiday Inn in Grantville.
Mitchell, who grew up in
Lionville, owns a 90-acte farm
near Reinbolds, Lancaster
County. At the home farm last
year he grew 45 acres of com
and some bay. This year he
plans to grow 35 acres of com
and 17 acres of wheat.
With additional leased land
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Mitchell hopes to cate for about
700 acres of com. “We used to
do more than that in Chester
County,” he said. “But the land
is lost to building and
development.”
All told, Mitchell cares for
about 520 acres of com, 260
acres of soybeans, 75 acres of
wheat, 25 in alfalfa bay mixes,
and 18 acres of barley. A large
part of the com land is in the
Exton area.
In Reinholds, Mitchell man
ages about 66,000 chickens in
two houses under contract for
Pennfield. Mitchell and his
wife Susie care for about five
flocks per year. The Lancaster
County growers also finished
about 150 hogs last fall for Hat
field. He also maintains a small
stock of finishing beef.
On the 5-acre contest plot,
part of land owned by the
Church Farm School a
single-parent boys boarding
school from sixth through 12th
In Relnholds, Mitchell manages about 66,000 chickens In two houses under
contract for Pennf leld. Mitchell and his wife Susie care for about five flocks per
year.
grade Mitchell follows a
two-year com program with
soybeans.
Using no-till, Mitchell
planted the Pioneer 3335 varie
ty at a planting depth of
114 inches on May 2,1997 at a
row width of 30 inches, for a
final plant population 0f25,265
per acre. He used a starter fertil
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No sidedress was applied.
Herbicide applied was a
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nation in a nitrogen solution.
There was no cultivation at
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Mitchell saw little economic
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cides because little or no Euro
pean com borer or com root
worm was evident. The most
difficult weed to deal with in
the area, Mitchell noted, is bur
cucumber, which is a “real nas
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handled by herbicides when the
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