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season,” she said. The books
reflect how busy it will be in
the coming months, with
many deliveries and pickups
scheduled.
In season, about 200,000-
300,000 bushels per week are
delivered after harvest. That
number drops to about
300,000-400,000 bushels per
month in January.
In 1999, the year was a
challenge, with low prices
and drought, a double-edged
sword. But Ann has seen
worse. She remembers when
President Jimmy Carter, in
the mid-’TOs, imposed a grain
embargo, and com prices
dropped 20 cents in a day.
And now, where there were
six grain exporters on the
East Coast, it’s down to one,
noted Brent.
Although the free trade
with China pact has removed
trade barriers, it’s hard to
figure out what China will
actually do, according to
Ann.
Brazil and South America
have “potential beyond
belief,” said Ann, to supply
grain to the world. But the
political and economic in
frastructure there could limit
their getting commodities to
the world market.
The Bt corn controversy
early last year turned out to
be a “non-issue,” said Ann
for them and many other ele
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about having to partition the
grains accordingly some
thing that most considered
~too great a challenge.
What scares Brent is the
move to corporate land own
ership and large-scale, one
company, fully integrated
contracting.
Agriculture “still needs ev
erybody,” Ann said, from the
small to large operator.
“They need all of us.”
For the first time last year,
Ann and Mark took a week’s
ST. LOUIS, Mo. The
National Corn Growers As
sociation (NCGA) is urging
growers who planted Star-
Link hybrids last year to
make the extra effort to con
trol possible volunteer Star-
Link corn in 2001. That may
mean rotating to another
crop or growing an herbicide
tolerant hybrid that lets you
control volunteer Star Link.
“The danger is volunteer
Star Link corn pollinating
surrounding non-StarLink
corn plants, further com
pounding the problems of
keeping Star Link out of the
supply of U.S. corn,” said
Fred Yoder, Plain City, Ohio,
farmer and chairman of the
NCGA Biotech Working
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“thanks to Brent and Deb,”
said Ann.
Mark, who helps with
loading and unloading,
“keeps everything running,”
Ann said. “He’s a good mill
wright.”
Brent is in charge of mar
keting, buying and selling of
grain, unloading, and truck
recordkeeping. He also oper
ates the seed and fertilizer
business in Red Lion.
Ann takes care of the office
work and marketing.
Debbie takes care of the ac
counting and bookkeeping.
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Effort To Control Volunteer StarUnk
Group.
“Rotation is the best
choice,” he pointed out. “In
an ideal situation for 2001,
you’d rotate ground planted
to Star Link last year into soy
beans, oats, or some other
crop that will allow you to
find and destroy volunteer
corn.
“But if you’re locked into
growing corn-on-corn you
need to plant herbicide
tolerant hybrids that let you
eliminate Star Link volun
teers,” Yoder said.
The other control options
are to grow either glyphosate
(Roundup Ready) tolerant
hybrids or imidazolinone
(IMI) Clearfield tolerant hy
brids and then use those her-
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Mark and Ann'also have a
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Randy is a business consult
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said their son was designing a
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bicides to kill volunteer corn
and other weeds.
However, NCGA is warn
ing farmers about the use of
Roundup Ready hybrids to
control Star Link volunteers.
“Roundup Ready corn is not
yet approved for export to the
European Union and is re
stricted from some domestic
wet-milling markets,” Yoder
emphasized. “Check your
primary corn market before
selecting this control option.
“Planting glufosinate (Lib
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using conventional corn her
bicides on Star Link ground
will not control volunteers,
because Star Link contains
the Liberty Link gene,” he
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November, Randy was busy
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said. “Also, you’ll need to
check with your seed dealer
to see whether the Star Link
hybrids you planted last year
were stacked with IMI. If
they were, you can’t control
volunteer Star Link with an
IMI hybrid.”
The recommendation on
controlling Star Link volun
teers is in addition to
NCGA’s recent statement en
couraging growers to plant
seed that has been tested for
Cry9C, the Star Link protein.
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