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A dry year tmnalatad Into an aarly haivaat Ibr Anaal Webatar. AH tha com waa takan
off tha drat waek of Octobar with avaraga yiald of 177.3 tona per acre (dry baala). He
credits “Mother Nature and tha Lord’ for hia achieving high corn ylelda in a drought
year. Photo by Carolyn Mayor
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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
CAMP HILL (Cumberland
Co.) Dennis Avery, director
of global food issues at the
Hu&m Institute, is scheduled
to be the keynote speaker at the
upcoming Pennsylvania Cora
and Soybean conference Pcb 8
here at the Radisson Penn Har
ris Convention Center.
Avery's topic will be "The
Crocial Moment fat American
Agriculture "
Avery believes Uut produc
ers *r looking at one of the big
gest opportunities in fanning
history, Mark your calendar
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icaster Farming, Saturday, January 29, 2000
Insect ami disease management school participants look over samples of
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CAROLYN N. MOYER
Tioga Co. Correspondent
TIOGA (Tioga Co) ‘Tve
never reached 1,000 ions
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 m the draught
of 1999
His average yield was 5 49
tons per acre On a dry matter
basis, that translates to 177 3
dry shell bushels per acre.
This year on the whole 185
acres, "1 had 1,015 17 tons of
high moisture com,” said Web
ster “1 was lop dog last year for
the county I don’t know where
1 am this year”
The highest yield he usually
has is around four tons per acre
"We must have had some
really heavy dews along that
nver and enough ram when we
CORN TALK
Farm Calendar
Decisions 2000 Agricultural
Marketing Seminar, Days
Inn, Allentown.
Crop Master Senes, Planter
Setup and Maintenance,
George V. Seipel and Son,
Easton
Beaver County Crops Day, Big
Knob Orange, 9 30
a m -3’15 n m
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 ume we generally start.”
said Webster
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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Butler County Crops Day, East
Crop Master's Farming After
The Drought, Integrated
Crop Production School,
Holiday Inn, Bethlehem, 10
am-3 pm
Lawrence County Crops Day,
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