Page 6—Corn Talk, Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October iOj 1998
30,000 Could Be Corn’s Optimum Population Rate
At a nearby farm, the young farmers are looking at a
grain plot Involving 14 different companies. Ed Her*
rmann checks out the plots.
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that will provide the best yields
at the best price.
Solanco Young Farmers
think the found that optimum
rate.
In several planting demon
strations involving grain and
silage com, the optimum popu
lation rate could be 30,000
seeds per acre. Hie best stands
were planted this year at that
rate, according to Ed Her
rmann, adviser to the Solanco
Young Farmer Association.
At a com silage test plot at
the Ed Zug farm in Peach Bot
tom, 12 companies provided
seed on three acres of land.
Zug, who has been doing test
plots at his farm for about eight
years, places about 10 tons of
dairy manure to the acre.
Hie soil is conventionally
tilled. Planting of the 23 variet
ies was done on April 30 this
year in 36-inch row spacing at a
seed rate of 30,000 per acre.
Zug said that heibicide and a
20-20-0 starter (150 pounds per
acre of nitrogen) is banded in at
planting. When com is a foot
height, he cultivates. At 16
inches of height, another herbi
cide application is applied with
drop nozzles. Also, about a
pound per acre of atrazine is
used. Herbicides on the plot
included six pounds per acre of
Counter and VA quart per acre
of Prowl (banded in row).
Last year, according to Her
rmann, Zug harvested about 23
tons of silage per acre. During a
field day in July this year, Her
rmann noted the field test could
yield 27-28 tons per acre.
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At a nearby farm, the young
farmers are looking at a grain
plot involving 14 different
companies. The com results,
including efficacy of herbicides
and harvest, are evaluated at a
special meeting this month.
At the Victor Brinton farm
nearby, the test plot was planted
no-till on April 30 this year.
Spacing was at 30-inch rows at
a seed rate of 29,000 per acre.
At the Eldora Station farm,
Aztec insecticide was used at
7.6 pounds per acre. In addi
tion, one 'quart of Prowl and
VA quart of Atrazine per acre
was used. A cleanup spray for
burcucumber was applied,
which included A pint of Ban
vil and 2,4-D as needed.
Also, ISO pounds per acre of
30-0-0 fertilizer was used. The
Grower Named State Winner
In National Corn Contest
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corn grower has been named
a state winner in the 1997
National Corn Yield Contest
9NCYC), sponsored by the
National Corn Growers
Association (NCGA).
Matthew Maximuck of
Doylestown placed second in
the state in the a no-til non
irrigated class with a yield of
202.19 bushels per acre. The
hybrid planted in the winning
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Along Rt
between >
of the PA
ground receives 3,000 gallons
of hog manure per acre.
Herrmann noted that some
times cultivation pays off in
terms of better standability. The
conventionally tilled and culti
vated silage com at the Zug
farm looked better than the no
tilled com for grain at the Brin
ton farm, according to
Herrmann.
This is the first time ever for
a grain plot and the first time a
no-till approach to com was
under test by the young far
mers, noted Herrmann.
The results of the com test
plots will be evaluated during
the fall and will help plan addi
tional testing.
The plots were open all sum
mer long for inspections by
'members of the association.
The local operations was
one of 490 winners named out
of a total of 3,318 entrants in
nine classes in the 1997 con
test. The 490 winners pro
duced an average yield of
203/1 bushels per acre, or 17
bushels per acre higher than
the 186-bushel average for all
contest entrants, the average
yield of all winners was 76
bushels per acre higher than
the 1997 overall U.S. average
corn yield of 127 bushels per
acre.
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