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Lime Doubles Soybean Yield
With a 3.5 ton/acre application of high calcium sugar beet lime, the Loll family of west central Minnesota doubled their yield, from 35 bushels to 70 bushels per acre.
PA Hay Contest Winners
Growers customers win Grand Championships with their Growers grown hay.
We are very proud of our two hay growers here in Eastern Pennsylvania who each won multiple awards at Penna Ag. Progress Days Hay Judging in August of 2008. Each of them, besides winning first place with their different entries, also won the Grand Champion Award in their respective sections.
Calcium is King
Eighteen year Growers Program veteran, Alton Stephens of Ohio talks about soil tests and his fertility program for 2009.
Kaschak's Record Corn Yield
My sister Theresa and I have a 153 acre farm near Waterford in northwest Pennsylvania. We raise corn, oats, hay, 13 Hereford beef cows, and we milk 40 Holstein Dairy cows. We also breed Registered English Shepherd pups which are sold throughout the U.S. Our web site is: http://kaschak-kennels.tripod.com/
Second Generation Growers Man Discovers Adequate Liming
In the spring of 2010 I bought 500 tons of high calcium lime and decided to spread it on some rented land with a poor soil test. I have a 10 ton lime-litter spreader and need to have the door all the way open, or the lime will bridge and not spread correctly. And because of field conditions, I couldn't drive very fast, so, all that together, made the rate 4 tons an acre.