The Lucknow Sentinel, 1985-03-20, Page 41l�
Eliminate declining productivity
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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 faun was • a1 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 11in 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 acre trial basis and
assist with the development of conservation
tillage techniques.
Equipment available through the HIS. W
C.D. includes no till drill, no till planter,
ridge forming cultivator, ridge plantar and
modified • plows, including a chisel bottom
plow. Teduucal assistance is also available
providing farm planning, herbicide and
fertilizer reagnmendations, assistance at
planting and monitoring of the trial during
the growing season.
Yield, moisture andharvest losses are
recorded to develop conservation cropper
systems which are economically feasible
under Huron County conditions.
All of these options allow the fanner to
protect his resource for productivity tomorrow
while increasing it's value today.
If you are interested in developing c0nser
vation cropping systems in your operation,
contact Robert'ltaut, Conservation Agronom-
ist, Huron Soil and Water Conservation
District, Clinton O.M.A.F. Office, at 482-
3,128.
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 amp 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 rust
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 changes to
their own planter, to not only better
accommodate reduced tillage conditions, but
also to experiment with moreno-till and
ridge -till on their own.
The Hogans and Howards were very satis-
field with the results and now are convinced
that no -till and ridge -till will work Recently
they purchased Kelderman row 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 oveimome most of
the depth control and stability problems they
had last year and thereby improve the
performance of no -till and ridge -"till crops.
It's Ray's goal to be ablate move oom pletly
to a modified no -till - ridge -till cropper
system for all of their amps en all of their
land. Whether he attains this goal depends' to
a large extent on using crop residues,
particularly wheat amp residues for beef cow
feed.
During the past number of years the
Hogans and Howards have large baled or
stacked corn stover an'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..
The 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 com harvest
to bale or stack enough corn stover for winter
food, however. Removing even one-half the
com stover with the baler or stacker can Iead
to greater erosion the following spring. If they
only graze cows on the stalks in the fall and
early winter, another advantage of gra*ing
over baling the stalks is the cows pick up any
ears left in 'the field, preventing volunteer
com the following year. his also very easy to
do the droresMhen the cattle feed tiheniselves
in the tom 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 com when it
follows wheat, by baling the straw, we are
now using more wheat straw and less com
stover for winter feed, says Ray.
The Hogans and Howards run all of the
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