COLLEGE PARK, Md. During the past quarter-century, the Mid-Atlantic No-Till Confer ence has introduced a conserva tion concept that was new to many crop farmers and provided helpful information on how no-till adopt ers could refine their cropping practices to achieve the greatest profit potential “Hot” topics over the years have included no-till drilling tech niques, machinery adjustments, nitrogen application, weed con trol crop rotation, and soil com paction. To start off its second 25 years, the conference will offer breakout sessions and roundtable discus sions on topics such as cover crops, narrow-row silage, zone tillage, manure management, no till vegetable production, and the soil phosphorus index. For the first time, the confer ence is scheduled at two locations Planting sooner in warmer soil starts your crop off FAST so you can finish big at harvest. Aerial imagery proves that GRAMOXONE* EXTRA herbicide gives you faster results than regular glyphosate. GRAMOXONE EXTRA beats tillage too, saving topsoil, time, fuel and labor. This season, start fast and finish big with GRAMOXONE EXTRA. For more information, ask your retailer, call our hotline at 800-759-2500 or visit our web site at zenecaagproducts.com. No-Till Planners Schedule Conference on consecutive days—Feb. 24 in the Four Points Hotel at Hagers town, Md., and Feb. 25 in the Holiday Inn at Giantville, Pa. As in all previous years, the conference is sponsored by co operative extension at land-grant universities and by the USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service in participating states, with assistance from interested agribusinesses and related or ganizations. Identical sessions will run from 8 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. at both loca tions. A $2O registration fee. pay able by Feb. 16, will include lunch Will Hilty Jr., Mount Pleasant, shows a bred gilt, represen tative of the dozen he Is prepared to show at the state Farm Show. Checking his catalog, he found that she is listed as lot 105 and was born Feb. 8,1999. For breeding stock, Will says that their family looks for a boar that will compensate for any weaknesses that might be present in the sow herd. They traveled to Ohio for one of their newest acquisitions, paying $1,500 for a young, lean boar. Photo by David Hiebert SOONER. at one location. After Feb. 16, the fee is S2S. Registration brochures will be available soon at many Coopera tive Extension county offices in Maryland and Pennsylvania. Oi contact Joel C. Myers, Pennsylva nia state agronomist. Natural Re sources Conservation Service, 1 Credit Union Place, Suite 340, Harrisburg, PA 17110-2993, (717) 237-2208. Interested exhibitors may con tact Mark Goods on, Penn State Cooperative Extension, 112 Plea sant Acres Road, York, PA 17402, a 17) 840-7408. SPEED WITH COHFIDEHCE Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 8, 2000-D27 http://www.stale.pa.us/PA—Exec/Agriculture/bure aus/farm —show/farmshow2ooo/fsfacts.html, “The PA Farm Show Scholarship Foundation awards $2,000 scholarships prior to the sale. In 1999,19 stu dents received these scholarships. Ben, 18, plans to study agricultural biological engineering. He has looked at the course of study and found that it includes power and machinery, farm structures, soil management, and food service. Fayette County families will also be at the Farm Show, possibly in larger numbers than the West moreland crowd. from his county Fayette will make it to the Farm Show this year. As a family, he said, “wc do it every year, including the one with the big snow!” His oldest son will not make it, since he is in school, but he had been going since he was 8. Not all from the county will be showing animals, but “it is a good experience for the kids," he said. “There is the chance to compete or go to the bigger show. The sights, sounds, and food are all part of the adventure.” Entries from Fayette County include steers, lambs, and hogs. Those teens not showing are admitted at half the adult admission price. In preparing the animals, Wolfe said too much feed can be a problem, so the animals that will be shown are exercised and groomed every day. They watch for too much weight gain and control it by limiting feed and using a high protein diet Each of his children at home Rachel Sue, 17, and David, 14 will be taking a hog, and the wife and mother Lucille will also be attending. Rich Townsend, McClcllandtown, will also be traveling with the group from Fayette. The group has three or four trailers lined up to take the animals. Rich is a 4-H leader and on the state swine committee. At the state level, he said the 160 animals that ate entered will be judged, with about half making the sale. Though his girls have outgrown the 4-H program and will not participate this year, be is looking for ward to a granddaughter being part of the show next Families Anticipate Farm Show (Continued from Page 026) Charles Wolfe Jr., Grindstone, thinks about 30
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