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In the mid-’9os, Bt com was intro duced and soon several different events were available. The great debate on Bt com developed with the Monarch butterfly issue and then came the Starlink issue, which affected many pro ducers. We all became familiar with the issues surrounding the use of biotechnology, perhaps more than any other part of agricul ture. Then in the late ’9os, Roundup Ready com arrived on the scene. At the time the stan dard thinking was that it would never take off and the benefit of Roundup resistance was not nearly as beneficial in com as in soybeans. Now Roundup Ready com is a sizeable and growing part of the com hybrid market. More recently, we have seen the introduction of the rootworm Bt com and, as with all the other technologies, we have been con ducting intensive research pro grams on the use of these prod ucts and will be reporting on them in future issues of Com Talk. In the equipment area, there also have been many, many changes. Think about the intro duction of yield monitors and the development of yield map ping a precision ag technolo gy. I remember how we did lots of calibration studies with our new yield monitor and how ex citing it was to develop that first yield map of one of our fields at the research farm. I also remem ber all the hardware and soft ware problems we encountered in the early days and how close we came to throwing $20,000 worth of equipment in the pond. Now, it seems so effortless to collect yield data, and many farmers have them on board and use them routinely. Another equipment innova tion that has really taken off has been the row-neutral or Kemper head for silage choppers. I re member driving four hours to western New York to get video of a farmer with a Kemper head in 1993 now these heads are commonplace. Other equipment innovations that have occurred in com production include the many planter medications the Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 18, 2003-E5 zone tillage systems, the row cleaners, the seed firmers, and now the spaded closing wheels. Now we have many planter test stands for fine-tuning planter performance. All of planter tech nologies were rare back in the early ’9os. Herbicides have undergone changes as well during this peri od. There have been lots of new, low-rate products that added to things like Beacon and Accent that were available in the early ’9os. We also got safeners added to some of our traditional prod ucts. And we’ve seen a move away from Paraquat to Round up for many bumdown applica tions. We’ve also seen many changes in how fertilizer management has developed in corn produc tion in our state. We’ve seen the development of nutrient man agement plans based on N and now the P index is being intro duced. We see farmers mdVing away from the use of starter fer tilizers in some situations and some producers putting all their N in bands 4 inches from the row. These are all relatively new developments in the last 10 years or so. Another change that has hap pened has been continuing in dustry consolidations. Common names like Muncy Chief, Hoff mans Seeds, Cargill Seeds, Jac ques Seeds, and others have faded into history. Similar trends have occurred in the chemical industry and in the equipment industry. We’ve also seen changes in our silage evaluation. We saw the introduction of the BMR hy brids, the leafy hybrids, and the silage only hybrids. We saw the development of in-vitro and in situ tests for evaluating feed quality. Now we hear about dif ferences in the kernel texture among hybrids and its impor tance to the dairy farmer. All of these innovations dur ing the last 10 years have re quired a significant amount of knowledge to understand and to use effectively. Its gratifying to know that extension and indus- try representatives have accom plished this education through meetings and publications such as Com Talk and others. I’m proud to have played a role in studying these technolo gies over the years and sharing our findings with you in the pages of Com Talk. I think to gether we’ve made some real dif- ferences in how we grown corn and I look forward to working on issues like these for another 10 years or more in the future.
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