It Wasn't All Southern Blight In 1971 Corn Yields
Southeastern Pennsylvania farmers faced reduced corn yields despite a national bumper crop. While Southern corn blight played some role, experts like Charles Ackley cite multiple stress factors including lack of sun, overcast skies, stalk rot, yellow leaf blight, weeds and insects. Emphasis on management practices like early planting, proper population, lime and fertilizer, weed and insect control is urged for next year.
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Southeastern
Pennsylvania
Charles Ackley
Ephrata Area
Ackley
Profit From Meetings for Farmers This Season
Several educational meetings for farmers are planned in coming days before the holidays. Dairy herd management at Farm and Home Center at 8 pm next Tuesday. Poultry waste disposal seminar November 10 from 9 30 am to 4 30 pm. Other local meetings include Ephrata and Garden Spot Young Farmers events on November 9.
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Ephrata Young Farmer's Dairy
Garden Spot Young Farmers Small Grains
Farm Credit
Plain and Fancy
Northeast Egg Marketing Association
Newton
Mass
Young Farmers
Lebanon
Soil Testing and Feed Supplements for Dairy Herds
Fall is ideal for soil tests to guide lime and fertilizer needs and secure discounts. Proper salt intake supports water consumption and digestion. fall forage testing saves protein dollars and guides hay and silage quality for winter feeding. Local extension offers forage test kits and calf housing literature to aid dairy producers.
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Pennsylvania
Who Is the Enemy in the Parable and Prophecy
A preacher unfolds a parable of a young warrior who ends up fighting his own people. Habakkuk’s oracle shows Rome Babylon or internal corruption as the threat, but the real danger is Israel’s own weakness and sin. The sermon warns that the enemy may be within us.
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Althouse
Israel
Chaldea
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Lancaster
Lancaster County
Lititz
E. Main St
Robert G. Campbell
Lancaster Farming
Member of
Newspaper Farm Editors Assn. Pa. Newspaper Publishers Association
National Newspaper Association
Ee Riedert
Tnteenet
Roy
Acts
Division of Christian Education
National Council of the Churches of Christ
U.S.A
Ice
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