The Rural Voice, 1983-08, Page 9corn, corn, bean, winter wheat rotation on
their lanc which is 80 per cent tiled. Corn
is grown on 700 acres and soybeans on
450 acres. Wheat is sold as a cash crop,
the straw being used for bedding and the
chicken manure as fertilizer on the corr
crop.
One tour stop was at a windbreak --- 600
trees in three rows, cedar on the leeward
side along with Norway spruce and white
pine, planted on the west side of one of
the farm buildings.
A ten -year-old reforestation plot of
white pine and white spruce was also
featured. Marvin Smith, Ministry of
Natural Resources, says white pine is
suitable for planting in open grassed
areas. He says a stand of white pine
would be worth about $10,000 an acre in
seventy or eighty years time.
Ian Deslauriers, Maitland Valley Con-
servation Authority, says the Whyte
brothers follow good conservation prac-
tices: crop rotation, cross slope cultiva-
tion, chisel plowing, no -till trials, clover
plowdown, proper manure application, til-
ing and the use of waterways, woodlots
and windbreaks.
Deslauriers drew attention to an
unstable ditchbank created by a poorly in-
stalled culvert. The top was scouring out
and the bottom was silted in, but he says
overall erosion was not really serious. He
says every plan to stop erosion is dif-
ferent: "If you have 23 alternatives, maybe
only three will work. You have to be
prepared to follow up and try other alter-
natives."
Marianne Vanden Heuvel, Conservation
Pat Lynch, OMAF crop
specialist: "If you are not going
to change some of your cropp-
ing practises, don't call me."
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