LANDISVILLE (Lancaster
Co.) Recently the Pennsylvania
Soybean Promotion Board
announced the results of the 1998
Pennsylvania Soybean Yield
Contest
Picking up first place in the
statewide contest was James E.
Hcrshcy, Lancaster County, with a
yield of 80.21 bushels per acre
using Pioneer 9421.
Second place went to Jon E.
Stutzman, Berks County, with a
yield of 77.43 bushels per acre
using Gutwein 7410. Third place
went to Jack Coleman, Lancaster
County with a yield of 76.10
bushels per acre using Pioneer
93881.
According to contest coordina
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cultivars made up 23 percent of the
30 entries, with an average of
68.97 bushels per acre. Normal
cultivars comprised 30 percent of
the entries, with an average of
63.58 bushels per acre.
Roundup Ready cultivars made
up 47 percent of the entries with an
average yield of 60.80 bushels per
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Minimum till was used on 54
percent of the entries and no- till on
46 percent. A com planter was
used cm 37 percent of the entries
and a drill on 63 percent
Forty-one percent of the entries
were planted May 11-20, 34 per
cent May 21-30, and 15 percent
were planted June 1 or after.
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Ten percent of the entries were
planted May 10 or earlier.
Drills planted soybeans at an
average of 196,000 plants per acre.
Com planters averaged 176,000
plants per acre. Fifty-five percent
of the entries planted in rows 10
inches or less, 35 percent planted
in 15-inch rows, and 10 percent
planted in 30- inch rows. Ninety
seven percent of the entries were
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and biochemistry in the division of
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West Virginia University. Russell
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inoculated and the same percen
tage did not cultivate. Ninety four
percent reported good to excellent
weed control.
Of the entries, 39 percent used
fertilizer or manure and 74 percent
applied phosphorous and potas
sium or manure to the previous
crop. Forty-five percent of the
entrants reported a current soil test
land Department of Agriculture,
Frederick Laboratory. Ediger has
experience as animal investigator
with the National Institutes of
Health, rabbit section.
Registration is free. For lunch,
$6 per person will be collected at
the door.
For more information, contact
the Garrett County extension
office at (301) 334-6960.
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