t f ADVERTISERS PLAN NOW TO RESERVE your SPACE PHONE 717-626-1164 717-394-3047 DEADLINE FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26 Th© Off ,M ffiS&"'«» SPECIAL SECTION IN UN CASTER FARMING ARCH 6 OR Producer ANDY ANDREWS Lancaster Fanning Staff LITTLESTOWN (Adams Co) Tim Brown spent a hot, dry afternoon one day last sum mer holding back the leaves of com while Larry Swartz, crops agent, scouted for com borer damage One large stalk was turning the color purple at the top There was definite sign of pest feeding With a quick motion, Swartz opened his pocketkmfe and sliced into the stalk, cutting the center open to the sun, reveal' mg a borer, happily feeding away on the fanner’s profits “There that little sucker is,” said Tin, helping Swartz break the stalk apart to glimpse the thumbnail-sized, slimy, nbbed worm “Chop his head off” Com growers are fully aware of how much damage to the crop a pest such as the Euro pean com borer can be Only in the last few years have produc ers begun to adopt biotechnolo gy to Sic arsenal of weapons to nd fields of the damaging pest Brown, a registered Holstein dairy farmer near Uttlestown. (Turn to Ftf *) Corn Program Offers A-Maize-ing Facts, Eye• Opening Reality Lori Lauver, youth programs coordinator for Juniata and Mifflin countias, show students grocery items that are made from corn. Lauver is holding the book "Corn Is Maize” written and illustrated by AIIKI. The Cooperative extension agents donate a copy to each school they visit through this corn program. GAIL STRUCK Mifflin Co. Correspondent LEWISTOWN (Mifflin 2? information • STATE o E . INTERVIEWS ° N & national NEWS • PRESIDENT’S NEWSLETTER ORNTHIK 'k, Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 30, 1999 Uses More Bt Com On Littlestown Farm to B r . e Y r °w a* 1 w n v a L.- .■•town, care* past year about 45 acrea were Co) - Ask a fourth grader to identify the corn products in a grocery store, and he or she (Turn to Page I) INSYLVANIA MASTER CORN GROWERS ASSOC., INC. Om E <ier near !00 acree'in corn. The «/•).. cßtcomkillat.. com borer without the uae of levotedtoalranagenie Inaecßcldea. Photo by Andy Andrew* SURVIVAL SKILLS IN ANOTHER LOW PRICE YEAR The other day I managed to find myself in the unusual position of being awake at 5 30 in the morning, so I tuned in to the Ag Day program on TV for something to do One of the first things featured was a commodity analyst describing how he thought the outlook for com prices continued to be bleak throughout 1999 Initially, I thought about going back to bed Then i thought back to the recent Top Gun Conference we conducted in Mercer in December and some of the strategies that came up at that meeting for coping ENNSYLVANIA MASTER GROWERS ASSOCIATION Between The R< Dr. Greg Roth inn State Agronomy Associate Prof with low pnces about positioning yourself in On strategy was marketing the market as best as possible skills There was considerable This included developing a discussion among producers reputation as a quality suppii and speakers at the conference um orn nut Farm Calendar Silage and Forage Expo, Leba non Valley Expo Center, 9*30 a m-3 pm Beaver County Crops Day, Big Knob Grange, 9 30 ■ m-3 pm (Turn to Nfi 2)
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