—18 M 1 H ■lt M 'r. advertisers TO RESERVE OUR SPACE 717-626-1164 717-394-3047 deadline FRIDAY, JANUARY 22 SPECIAL SECTION IN LANCASTER farming ANUARY 30 PLAN NOW PHONE OR ""SSSW— Indiana Co. Correspondent DAYTON (Armstrong Co) Despite the relatively dry weather this summer in Armstrong County, George Rumbaugh was able to walk into one of his corn fields near here on the first day of September and gaze up at the green stalks stretching well above his head The ears had filled out nicely, too, he noted, and he predicted his crop would probably yield 80 or more bushels per acre Rumbaugh probably knows as much about grow ing corn as any farmer in his county and perhaps the state He had not only been growing com but studying it for years 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 ANDY ANDREWS Lancaster Farming Staff PEACH BOTTOM (Lancas ter Co.) —Producers often seek silage. . . 30,000 seed* per acre. The best stands ware planted this year at that rate, according to Ed Herrmann, advis er to the Solanco Young Farmer Association. PMCGA’s First President A ‘Student of Corn ’ RANDY WELLS he watched it to see how it agent reacted to weather and apil Rumbaugh lives on the farm house along with a two conditions * said Bill King a Wayne Township, Armstrong lane blacktop that winds retired Armstrong Penn County farm his great-grand- through the rolling farmland State Extension Service father bought m 1857, and he Eventually the farm was 30,000 Could Be Corn’s Optimum Population Rate Ihtt “optimum population rue.*’That rate is the amount of com seeds to put down per acre (Turn h •) ?"°* RRS 'FORMATION . f£f™ RE '"terviews " A loll & NATIONAL associates news • PRESIDENT’S NEWSLETTER ORHTALK INSYLVANIA MASTER CORN GROWERS ASSOC., INC. Ik, Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 10, 1999 Lush, alternating contour strips of corn and hay swirl across much of the 360-acre Rumbaugh farm in eastern Armstrong County. Another growing season is coming to an end and it's been a very active spring and summer for the PMCGA and the NCGA The ethanol battle was won once again Special thanks to all of you who took time to send a seed com tag, with your “Save Ethanol* \iyeo«imK meeting. Solanco Young Farmer, Auociatioo, Soian- A^emc^cEool^s3dvul^ PENNSYLVANIA MASTER N GROWERS ASSOCIATION President’s Message MB Chris Krimmel President, PMCGA | j_J (Turn to *•§• it) lives in a 131-year-old bnck message to your congression- will use more than 600 mil al leaders lion bushels of corn each year, Because of our combined adding 43 cents per bushel or efforts, ethanol production (j um Aharvaatordamonatiatadtathacrowd AtAgProg roos uaoo ■ rotating blade. Sat atory page 14. divided between his grandfa ther and his great-uncles “In those days you could raise a family on 50 acres,” Rumbaugh said and today at age 76 Rumbaugh operates part of the original farm with his son David Their 360-acre spread has about 260 acres of tillable land Rumbaugh was taking a critical look at his com crops even before PMCGA was started Rumbaugh, along with extension agent King and Willard Kimmel, another Armstrong County farmer, conducted some of the first interval com planting testa in the state Despite the conventional wisdom of that time that com should not be planted before mid-May, the three men started planting com as early as mid-Apnl six rows each of the same seed variety in the same field and contin ued the weekly plantings through May The results (Turn In Page IS)
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