LANCASTER ANIMRY advertisers PLAN NOW TO RESERVE OUR SPACE PHONE 717-626-1164 717-394-3047 deadline FRIDAY, JANUARY 22 - • ” ~*Sattaa»oo« growers assoc. orn SPECIAL SECTION IN FARMING 30 OR RANDY WELLS Indiana Co. Correspondent DAYTON (Aunsttong Co ) Despite the drv weather this summer in Armstrong County George Rumbaugh was able to walk into one of his corn fields near here on the fiist da\ of September and gaze up at the gieen stalks stretching well above his head The ears had filled out mcel> too he noted, and he predicted his crop would probably yield 80 or more bushels per acre Rumbaugh probably knows as much about grow mg corn as any farmer in his county and perhaps the state He had not only been growing corn hut studying it foi yea* - '; when he was asked in the early 1970 s to serve as the first president of the newly formed Pennsylvania Master Corn Growers Association (PMCGA) George was a student of corn He not only grew it, but 30,000 Could Be Corn’s Optimum Population Rate ANDY ANDREWS Lancaster Farming Staff PEACH BOTTOM (Lancas ter Co.) —Producers often seek age. ipt>. pc 30,000 seeds per acre. The best stands were planted this year at that rate, according to Ed Herrmann, advis er to the Solanco Young Farmer Association. • SSSIS* 9 • sta« RE INTE RVIEWS flelf & national associates news • PRESIDENT’S NEWSLETTER ORN TALK Ik, Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 10, 1998 PMCGA’s First President A *Student of Corn ? he watched it to see how it re.uted to weather and sod conditions said Hill King a retired Armstrong Penn State h' tension Service Lush, alternating contoi 360-acre Rumbaugh farm that "optimum population rate." That rate is the amount of com seeds to put down per acre (Turn to P«o* •) *A♦ * j , Keystone Farm Show Section i . Lancaster Farmli INSYLVANIA MASTER CORN GROWERS ASSOC., INC. agent Rumbaugh in os on the Wavne Township Armstrong C'ountv faun his great grand father bought in 1857 and he ur strips of corn and hay swirl across much of the in eastern Armstrong County Another growing season is coming to an end and its been a verv active spnng and summer for the PMCOA and the NCGA The ethanol battle was won once again Special thanks to all of you who took time to send a seed corn lag with your Save hthanol GfiOfiHTBLK ™ F«rm C«KHiO»r Corn Silage Management meeting, Solanco Young Fanners Association, Solan- (Turn to Pago 11) */< '•* * • , r, * hvts in a 1 il uar old buck lann house Uong with a two lam hiicktop that winds thiough the roiling I umland Eventually the farm was PENNSYLVANIA MASTER N GROWERS ASSOCIATION President’s Message Chris Krimmel 1 President, PMCGA | j_J message to vour congression al leaders Because of nur combined efforts ethanol production A harvester demonstrated to the crowd At Ag Prog reas uaea a rotating blade. See atory page 14. Saturday, January 2, 1999-Pag, divided between his gr »ndf> ther md his great uncles In those davs \ou rnuid rmst <t familv on 50 teres Kumbaugh said tnd today it age 76 Rumbaugh opt laU s part of the original farm with his son David Their IbO acre spread has about 260 acres of tillable land Rumbaugh wis taking t critical look at his turn unps even before PM PGA was started Kumbaugh along with extension agent King and Willard Knmnel another Armstrong ( ountv farmtr conducted some of the first interval corn planting tests in the state Despite the conventional wisdom of that time that corn should not bo planted before mid May the three men started planting corn as early as mid April six rows each of the same seed variety in the same field and contin aed the weeklv plantings through May The results (Turn to Pago 1$) will use more than 600 mil lion buahels of corn each \eai adding 4i cents per bushel or (Turn to Pag* 13) ie
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