Forest Landowners
WARREN (Warren Co.) - The
Fourth Annual Forest
Landowners Conference is
scheduled Saturday, Jan. 22, at
the Penn State Erie, The
Behrend College in Erie.
This all-day program lasts
from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. cost is
$l3 and preregistration is
required by Jan. 12.
The conference is targeted
toward private forest landown
ers interested in taking care of
their woodlands. Cooperatively
sponsored by Penn State
Cooperative Extension, the
Bureau of Forestry, the North
West Pennsylvania Woodland
Association (NWPWA) and Penn
State Erie, the day is open to
anyone with an interest in nat
ural resources and their stew
ardship.
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The highlight will be an
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tor, John Yocum. The study was
supported by a checkoff grant
from the Pennsylvania Soybean
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were somewhat more variable
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Take a look into the future
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How do wo save the t>'ood and develop a vision tor the
future of Lancaster and Lebanon Counties?
Seminar dates:
March 1 • March 23 • April 13
Learn from experts at this workshop for master teachers. The seminar
includes hands-on activities, a county-wide field trip to examine
environmental concerns and an extensive packet of teaching materials.
Learn about these important issues:
Land use • Clean air • Waste management • Clean water
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was seeded in beans after beans,
the rye was Roundup-killed, and
soybeans were seeded with a no
till com planter.
The plot with no cover crop
beans after beans yielded 42
bushels. Still not bad, Yocum said.
Yocum is assigned to Penn State’s
Southeast Ag Research and Exten
sion Center in Landisville.
“This is a long-term project pri
marily to see if we can improve
soil health increasing organic
levels and controlling winter ero
sion by planting these particu
lar cover craps.
“We recently finished a three
year study just last year, planting
wheat in standing beans, and it
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would appear, if one of the small
grains is seeded in, you can get a
good enough crop to act as a good
cover crop to hold the soil over
winter and create a good mulch.”
The current study is a much lon
ger range project and Yocum said
he would seek funding for another
year.
"The effect on soil erosion has
promise,” he said. "The disadvant
age is you have to drive through
standing beans and some fanners
just don’t like to do that”
An alternative would be to seed
by plane or helicopter. In that
case, expense could be a limiting
factor.
Although research
has shown that rotating
crops produces higher
yields, many farmers
grow continuous com
for a variety of reasons
which can be economic,
for the control of certain
weed species or farm
field selection.
Farmers in Pennsyl
vania have been grow
ing continuous com for
years but there has been
little research on the ef
fect of growing continu
ous soybeans and, more
and more fanners are
asking questions.
Multiple years of
soybeans has several
problems that are not a
problem with multiple
years of com, Yocum
explained.
Soybeans produce
less and a more fragile
residue than com. They
also produce a loose
soil. These attributes
can cause more poten
tial soil erosion, reduc
tion of soil organic mat
ter and soil compaction
than would be the case
with continuous com.
“With the increased
pressure on the fanning
community to reduce
soil erosion, nutrient
runoff and leaching,
growing continuous
soybean probably
would not meet conser
vation plans,” Yocum
said.
“Planting a cover
crop for the months
soybeans are not grow
ing should overcome
the negatives of con
tinuous soybean pro
duction. But there is no
research to indicate the
effects of these cover
crops upon continuous
soybean production,”
Yocum said.
In answer to the
question being asked by
many Pennsylvania
farmers whether soy
beans can be grown
multiple years in the
same field, this study
should help determine
whether cover oops can
be successfully seeded
into standing soybeans,
which cover crops are
superior, and whether
this cover will improve
soil structure and, over
lime, the production of
continuous soybeans.