E4-Corn Talk, Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 19, 200?
Camden Farm Hosts 2002 Va. Corn, Soybean Exposition
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was immediately attracted to the John
Deere 8400 tractor everyone was talking
about. A global positioning system had been
installed on it. The fellows ascended the
track and ensconced themselves inside the
‘jolly” green giant, fairly overwhelmed. It
was their turn for a few glorious minutes of
air conditioned luxury, but the GPS was the
best part.
“Its fim, all you gotta do is push a but
ton,” said the awed young Stover, doing his
best to describe the earthen “orbit” guided
by a satellite thousands of miles out in the
wild blue yonder.
Terrell, who works for his grandfather
near Richmond, was most interested in the
light bar. “I like nice straight rows and I
don’t like skip spots,” he said. “I already
have a light bar. I have to look at it to
know,” he said, reporting how much he re
lies on it.
Davis, himself, upon exiting the same ma
chine was duly impressed after having gone
tooling across the field with the GPS guid
ing the Deere effortlessly.
It was fun while it lasted but the here and
now reality extremely dry conditions
caused Davis to report that the bushels of
grain he normally would expect to be har
vested, in actuality this year, are fewer than
half of what is considered typical output.
“There are a lot of ups and downs in
farming business. You have to save for dry
years,” he said. “One thing, farm prices
have gone up because its dry.”
Ashe stood chatting, volleys of dust were
seen rising on the farm track as another yel
low school bus hauling tour passengers from
place to place approached. Those aboard
prepared to disembark at the starting point
when the vehicle, in sandy depths that al
most tugged the tires, of course, churned its
way back to the loading and unloading
zone.
The tours, nevertheless, were extremely
informative. From site to site, the crops and
soil being researched were observed first
hand and participants came away having
gleaned much helpful information from the
presenters.
The evaluation of cropping systems in the
research at Camden Farm includes (3
crops/2 years) no-till com, conventional till
wheat no-till double crop soybeans; (4
crops/3 years) no-till com, no-till hill season
soybeans, no-till wheat no-till double crop
soybeans; and finally, (4 crops/2 years) no-
till barley no-till double-crop com, no-till
wheat no-till double crop soybeans.
The above cropping systems have been
conducted on the same 3-acre strips (of both
highly productive and extremely sandy
soils), with three replications of each treat
ment for five years.
Also, variable rate seeding of com and
soybeans, variable rate nitrogen on com, and
yield mapping at harvest are incorporated
into the studies, officials said.
Yield results over the last five years for
wheat, barley, com, and soybeans for each
cropping system were discussed, along with
soil differences, cropping system differences,
and how what has been learned can be ap
plied to other farms in the region.
Com and wheat were discussed by Dr.
Mark Alley, Virginia Tech, who is directing
the project. Dr. David Holsouser addressed
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