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Corn Talk, Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 29, 2000
Despite Dry Weather, Webster’s Corn Posts High Yields
A dry year translated into an early harvest for Ansel Webster. All the com was taken
off the first week of October with average yield of 177.3 tons per acre (dry basis). He
credits “Mother Nature and the Lord” for his achieving high corn yields in a drought
year. Photo by Carolyn Moyer
Corn, Soybean Conference Feb. 8
Dennis Avery
CAMP HILL (Cumberland
Co.) Dennis Avery, director
of global food issues at the
Hudson Institute, is scheduled
to be the keynote speaker at the
upcoming Pennsylvania Com
and Soybean conference Feb. 8
here at the Radisson Penn Har
ris Convention Center.
Avery’s topic will be “The
Crucial Moment for American
Agriculture.”
Avery believes that produc
ers are looking at one of the big
gest opportunities in farming
history. Mark your calendar
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Insect and disease management school participants look over samples of
plant disease. See story page 8. Photo by Andy Andrews
CAROLYN N. MOYER
Tioga Co. Correspondent
TIOGA (Tioga Co.) “I’ve
never reached 1,000 tons
before,” said Ansel Webster.
He credits “Mother Nature and
the Lord” for his achieving high
com yields in a year when
many fanners watched their
crop wither away in the drought
of 1999.
His average yield was 5.49
tons per acre. Chi a dry matter
basis, that translates to 177.3
dry shell bushels per acre.
This year on the whole 185
acres, “I had 1,015.17 tons of
high moisture com.” said Web
ster. “I was top dog last year for
the county. I don’t know where
I am this year.”
The highest yield he usually
haste around four tons per acre.
“We must have had some
really heavy dews along that
river and enough rain when we
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Decisions 2000 Agricultural
Marketing Seminar, Days
Inn, Allentown.
Oop Master Series, Planter
Setup and Maintenance,
George V. Seipel and Son,
Easton.
Beaver County Crops Day, Big
Knob Grange, 9:30
a.m.-3:15 o.tn.
needed it,” said Webster, who
plants a 95-day com on his san
dy loam soil.
“We can get by with 100-day
com, but if you go over that,
you’re really pushing it as far as
high moisture shell com. Of
course for silage, you don’t
have to worry about it as much.
That can vary quite a bit.”
Because of the dry weather,
com dry down was faster than
usual.
“We started combining the
first part of October, which is
really two weeks earlier than
we generally do, so this year
has been an exceptional year.
We were all done this year by
the time we generally start,”
said Webster.
4m>. Webster’s com is custom
combined, placed right on
trucks and moved to the farm
which has purchased it. All of
Webster’s com is harvested for
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RN TALK
arm Calendar
Wednesday, February 2 )
The Drought, Integrated
Crop Production School,
Holiday Inn, Bethlehem, 10
a.tn.-3 p.m.
Lawrence County Crops Day,
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