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Corn Winners’ Joy Overshadowed By Pollution Problems
DAVID HIEBERT
Watooßbmd Co. Contapondent
McCONNELLSBURG,
(Fulton Co) - The Glazier
family should be happy And
they are Sort of But their joy
in winning the statewide ear
corn class, hand-harvest divi
sion first place is overshad
owed by a great fear
New Use Market
Should Be Where
Producers Set Sights
ANDY ANDREWS
Lancaster Fanning Staff
ALLENTOWN (Lehigh
Co.) Com and soybean pro
ducers have to realize one
thing, according to a commodi
ty broker the feed business
grows Only at an annual rate of
one to two percent.
“To me, that's a problem,"
said Pat Boova, Smith Barney
marketing specialist. "That's a
huge problem."
Boova, who spoke to more
than 100 com and soybean
growers and agri-industry rep
resentatives in January at the
Com Club
Contest
ALLENTOWN (Lehigh
Co.) Recently available is
the 1998 Report of the Pennsyl
vania 5-Acte Com Club, sup
ported by the Pennsylvania
Master Cora Otowets Associa
tion and participating seed
companies.
The winners were
announced in January at the
annual Pennsylvania Com and
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Using Technology To Improve
County Ag Center, 9 a.m.-3 Productivity, Schuylkill
County Ag Center, Potlsvil
■WnillWlllllllffllßlM ie. 10 am.-3 pm. also
Crops Clime, Penn State March 12
Schuylkill Campus, 9 a.m.-3 p um u 15)
ORN TALK
Ik, Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 6, 1999
Will present measures be
enough to restore health to
the dairy herd 9
Kenneth Glazier, a mem
ber of the Five Acre Corn
Club sponsored by Penn
State, has a nbbon for raising
113 7 bushels (100-124
bushel class) in 1995
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crops conference at the Days
Inn Conference Center near
Allentown, said, “None of us
can run a business growing at
one or two percent a year,” be
said. “It can't be done. It's not
going to work."
Boova noted that 97 percent
of the soy protein goes to feed
business. Trouble is. humans
don't cat a great deal of soy pro
tein. If they did, soybean grow
ers would be experiencing a
boom time.
Same goes for com produc
ers. Take away the Ugh fruc
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Announces
Winners
Soybean Cooferesee at the
Days Inn Conference Center,
Allentown.
According to Greg Roth,
Peon State associate professor
of agronomy, there were about
mx "fundamentals" that were
followed among most of the
winners. They included paying
attention to the planter, getting
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HEW PMCGA PRESIDEN T
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INSYLVANIA MASTER CORN GROWERS ASSOC., INC.
Farming Is a family avant for Kannath U Glazlar, canter, McConnallaburg.
Kan Is first place winner In the Five Acre Corn Club ear com class, hand har
vest division for a yield of 222 bushels per acre. With Ken and his wife,
Sharon, Is granddaughter Caltlln, age 3 and a half. Photo by David Hlaborl
Now that you have attend
ed winter meetings or are
still attending some, do you
know what you are going to
do with the information'’
With corn prices where
they are, we certainly need to
make our planting dollar go
as far as possible
With seed corn prices
PENNSYLVANIA MASTER
IN GROWERS ASSOCIATION
President’s Message
Chris Kimmel
President, PMCGA
ranging from more than $5O
to $lOO, make sure you know
what you are getting and how
it will work for your situa
tion
When it comes to spraying,
there are lots of options In
our situation, we finally gave
up on trying to do it with a
one pass system and have
committed ourselves to a pre
and post-application This
allows us to evaluate our
weed spectrum and better
match weeds and chemicals
It saves us more than $5 per
acre, even with the extra trip,
and does a better job
As poor as corn prices are,
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