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The Official Publication For The
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• FIVE-ACRE CORN CLUB WINNERS
• CROP INSURANCE OPINION
• PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
Corn Tam. Lancaster Farming. Saurday.jJenuaryZ^OO^
CAMP HILL (Cumberland
Co) Dennis Avery, director
of global food issues *! the
j HudLo Institute, is schedued
,obe the keynote speaker .Uhe
upcoming Com
' and Soybean conference Feb
! here at the Radisson Penn Mar
! ris Convention Center.
Avery's topic will be in®
Crucial Moment for American
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opportumties in farming
history. Mark your calendar
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needed .1," said Webster, who
CAROLYN N. MOYER plants a 95-day com on his tan
Tioga Co. Correspondent . loam sol i
TIOGA (Tioga Co )—'• vc “We can get by with 100-day
never reached 1.000 tons but if you go over that,
before," said Ansel Webster really pushing it as far as
He credits “Mother Nature and hl „ h mols i U re shell com O
the Lord” for his achieving high for sl i ag e, you don t
com yields in a year when have 10 worry about it as much
many farmers watched their can vary quite a bit
crop wither away in the drought Because of the dry weather,
of 1999 C „ Q com dry down was faster than
His average yield was 549 usual
tons per acre On a dry matter „ We started combining the
"diat translates to 177 3 fira part of October, which is
dry shell bushels pcrMre rcaUy lwo weeks ear her than
This year on the whole 185 we generally do. so this ye
acres “I had 1.015 17 tons of has been an excepuonal year
high moisture com," said Web- we were all done this year y
stcr “Iwas top dog last year for me ume we generally start,
me county 1 don;, know where sarfWebster
‘ he usually combed, placed right on
hSSour tons per acre micks and moved to die farm
"“We must have had some which has purchased it All ot
realty Jews along that Webster's com. Rested for
i nver and enough rain when wc urn
CORN TALK
Farm Calendar
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