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
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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
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