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Home My WebLink AboutClinton News-Record, 1985-3-20, Page 51THIS ORIGINAL DOC'UMEN'T IS IN V -IVY POOR CONDITION • • Eliminate declining productivity from page 4 lead to an uncontrollable disaster. There is no one so helpless as a farmer literally watching his farm blow away. The cruelest irony could be witnessed there that day. The farm was a valuable property and cedar trees along a ditch and low area had been removed to cultivate each tillage acre. These natural windbreaks had been removed, leaving the soil vulnerable. In an attempt to make each acre pay, he had sacrificed the value of the entire farm On one day. Conservation -practices help protect, like insurance, from that one day in five years, or ten years, when all factors combine to produce erosion in its many forms. Many services are available to put soil management practices in place on your farm. The Huron Soil and Water Conservation District (H. S. W . C.D.) can provide resources and equipment to co-operators in the Huron County area on a five ase trial basis and assist with the development of conservation tillage techniques. Equipment available through the H.S.W. C.D. includes no till drill, no till planter, ridge forming cultivator, ridge planter and modified plows, including a chisel bottom plow. Technical assistance is also available providing faun planning, herbicide and fertilizer recommendations, assistance at planting and monitoring of the trial during the growing season. Yield, 'moisture and harvest losses are recorded to develop conservation cropping system which are economically feasible under Huron County conditions. All of these options allow the farmer to protect his resource for productivity tomorrow while increasing it's value today. If you are interested in developing conser- vation sopping systems in your operation, contact Robert Traut, Conservation Agronom- ist, Huron Soil and Water Conservation District, Clinton O. M.A.F. Office, at 482- 3428. Crop yields increase, profits improve with reduced tillage, crop rotation... from page 17 the following year. As the family worked with reduced tillage in conjunction with a better crop rotation, they found their sop yields actually increased and profits improved. It seemed logical if some reduced tillage was good, then more was even better, says Ray. Two years ago they planted their first no -till corn with the Huron Soils and Crop Improvement Association no -till corn planter. They were encouraged enough by the results that last winter they made some change's to their own planter, to not only better accommodate reduced tillage conditions, but also to experiment with more no -till and ridge -till on their own The Hogans and Howards were very saris - field with the results and now am convinced that no -till and ridge -till will work Recently they purchased Kelderman mw cleaning units from the United States for their planter. These units are basically a combination colter trash whipper with much better depth control and stability than what they used last year. These units will hopefully overcome most of the depth control and stability problems they had last year and thereby improve the performance of no -till and ridge -till sops. It's Ray's goal to be able to move completly to a modified no -till - ,midge -WI sopping system for all of their crops on all of their land:Whetherhe attains this goal depends to a large extent on using crop residues, particularly wheat crop residues for beef cow feed. During the, past number of years the Hogans and Howards have large baled or stacked corn stover and some wheat straw for winter feed. They have applied A.A.A. from a tractor mounted tank to the stacks or bales of corn stover as they made them in the field. Me A.A.A. helps to preserve the stover if it is green or damp and it also increases the protein content. It is often difficult, Ray says, to get enough good weather in November after corn harvest to bale or stack enough corn stover for winter food, however. Removing even one-half the corn stover with the baler or stacker can lead to greater erosion the following spring. If they only graze cows on the stalks in the fall and early winter, another advantage of grazing over baling the stalks is the cows pick up any ears left in the field, preventing volunteer corn the following year. It is also very easy to do the chores when the cattle feed themselves in the corn fields. "Considering the problems with baling corn stover versus grazing it and since we have also found we can improve the chances of success of no -till corn when it follows wheat, by baling the straw, we are now using more wheat straw and less corn stover for winter feed, says Ray. 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