Hybrid Test Reports
SILAGE ENTRIES
Table 4. Silage performance of early medium-season (Maturity Zone 2)
hybrids.
Plant
Yield 1
Brand-Hybrid (tons/acre)
Seedway E 538
Dekalb DKC6I-24
Seedway E 622
Hytest HT7415
Hytest HT4602
Seedway E 670 L
Golden Harvest H-89
Doebler’s 638 XYG
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Dry
Moisture 2 Matter Yield
(%) (tons/acre)
Industrial Models
“Straight-Line” Flow
Spreader
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• Less horsepower required
• Even, consistent application
• No wind-carried manure; tractor
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• Handles pen-packed to liquid
• Easy cold weather clean up
• No leaking on roads
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Dekalb DKC6O-08 24.9
Doebler’s HCS4O 28.8
MEAN
LSD (0.05)
1 Yields are standardized to 65% moisture
2 Plant moisture at the time of harvest.
LOCATION DETAILS
Table 5. Location, cooporator, planting data, harvesting data, growing dogrtt days' (ODD) for 2001 season, and 30-year average ODD for early medium
season (Maturity Zorn 2) hybrid lasts
Location
(County)
Cooperator
Blair Dave Clark
Butler Albert Vetton
Centre (grain) Perm State
Centre (silage) Penn State
Clinton Charles Dotterer
Columbia Craig Richards
Lycoming Charles Ulmer
1 GOD data calculated by ZedX, Inc. 369 Roiling Ridge Dr, Bellefonte, PA 16823 GDD are calculated from the planting dale until
harvest or through October 8, whichever occurred first Thirty-year averages are calculated using the same dates
bancaster Farming, Saturday, January 19,2002, Corn Talk-'
28.2
2.9
Planting Harvest
Date Date
May 10 October 26
May 15 October 31
May 9 October 29
May 9 September 25 2 296
Mays October 25 2 603
May? October 19 2 676
May 10 November 1 2 536
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NCGA Urges
Farmers To
Tell Congress:
Pass TPA
ST. LOUIS, Mo. Trade Promo
tion Authority (TPA), or “Fast Track”
as it was previously called, has made
frequent appearances in the headlines
lately.
The National Corn Growers Associ
ation (NCGA) has been a staunch pro
ponent of TPA and is encouraging
producers to tell Congress to give this
international marketing tool to Presi
dent George W. Bush.
TPA’s advocates have discussed the
need to grant TPA powers to the presi
dent this year, because the United
States has been at a competitive disad
vantage in trade talks since these
powers expired in 1994. For example,
U.S. growth in agricultural exports
such as the corn and tractor in the
background are hampered by high
tariffs on U.S. products, which greatly
reduce American access to foreign
markets.
NCGA President and Walsh. Colo.,
corn grower Tim Hume said the U.S. is
being left behind without TPA.
“There are more than 130 preferen
tial trade and investments agreements
in the world today,” he said, “and due
to lack of trade authority, the United
States is only party to two.
“For example,” Hume continued,
“the European Union (EU) has free
trade agreements set up with 27 differ
ent countries, 20 of which were set up
within the last 10 years. As of right
now, the EU is also working on 15 new
accords. That’s why it is so important
for growers to contact their elected
leaders and tell them they support
TPA. We cannot continue to be left
behind on the world stage.”
NCGA urges corn growers and
other U.S. trade supporters to contact
their elected officials supporting sup
port of TPA. To contact your senator
and representatives, click on the
Action Alert on the NCGA Website
home page, www.ncga.com. More in
formation on NCGA’s stance on TPA
and other trade issues is available on
the NCGA Website at http://
www.ncga.com/trade/main/
index.html.
65.2
67.8
8.7
10.1
63.8
3.8
9.9
1.0
GOD GOD
(2001) (30-yr Avg)
2 580
2 483
2 318
2343
2175
2.490
2,581
2,423
2 449
2 466
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