SPECIAL SECTION LANCASTER farming CTOBER 9 ADVERTISERS TO RESERVE uscatlon For The —*SSs«ss 00 IN plan now OUR SPACE PHONE 717-626-1164 OR 717-394-3047 deadline FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1,1999 Corn Winners’ Joy Overshadowed By Pollution Problems DAVID BIEBERT WestmonUnd Co. Comspoadcßt McCONNELLSBURG, (Pulton 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 ANDY ANDREWS Lancaster Farming 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 rale of one to two percent 'To me. that’s a problem,” said Pal 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-Acre Com Club, sup ported by the Pennsylvania Master Com Growers Associa tion and participating seed companies. The winners were announced in January at the annual Pennsylvania Com and nun nut Farm Calendar ■BDBDDHIDnBB ■MMMQHnMMffljjlj Ag Outlook Seminar Berks Using Technology To Improve County Ag Center, 9 a.m.-3 Productivity, Schuylkill COMlty Ag CCtUCf, PottSVtl* HKDUSODBUSDiUUH lc, 10 «.m -3 pm, also March 12 (Turn lo nag* IS) Crops Clinic, Penn State Schuylkill Campus, 9 a.m -3 ORN TALK k, 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) m 1995 (Turn la Pag* 10) Set Sights cropi conference ai the Days Inn Conference Center near Allentown, said, "None of us can ran a business growing at one or two percent a year,” he 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 eat a great dea) of soy pro rein. If they did, soybean grow ers would be expenencing a boom time. Same goes for com produc ers. Take away tbe high frac fTum Paps 3) Announces Winners Soybean Conference at the Days Inn Conference Center, Allentown. According to Oreg Roth, Peon State associate professor of agronomy, there were about six “fundamentals'* that were followed among roost of the winners. They included paying attention to the planter, getting (Turn to Paga I) new pmgga president “ant POPULATION STUDY •sswras* . PRESIDENT’S NEWSLETTER INSYLVANIA MASTER CORN GROWERS ASSOC., INC. Farming it a family event for Kenneth L. Glazier, center, McConnellsburg. Ken le first place winner In the Five Acre Com Club ear corn class, hand har vest division for a yield of 222 bushels per acre. With Ken and his wife, Sharon, Is granddaughter CaHlin, age 3 and a half. Photo by Dsvid Hubert 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 7 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 N GROWERS ASSOCIATION President’s Message Chris Kimmel President, PMCGA ranging from more than $5O to $100» make sure you know what you are getting and how it will work for your situa lion 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 ourseives 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 tnp, and does a better job As poor as corn prices are, (Turn to Pape 5)
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