FW: So Far, This Corn Defies the Drought

Lon J. Rombough (lonrom@hevanet.com)
Fri, 13 Aug 1999 17:49:07 -0700

List Members: I have been forwarding ARS news releases to these lists
strictly for the interests of the members. Once again someone hasn't
bothered to read the headers and disclaimers to know that I am NOT the
author, but have just been passing along items I thought the members might
want to see. The reply below is one that was sent to me, personally. What
makes it particularly annoying is that the e-mail address suggests it was
from someone connected with the ARS (the address was
<------@asrr.arsusda.gov> )
If you want to debate these things, there are addresses at the bottom of the
releases for people you can contact, or you can debate each other through
the list. Or you can subscribe to the ARS news service - it's free, and the
address is on the bottom of the news releases. I recommend you do so as I'm
getting tired of putting up with morons like this and am likely not going to
forward many more releases.

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I think you should clarify this story before it gets out of hand. The
"Key to sustaining the corn through the drought is hairy vetch". Not true,
it's the irrigation that is making the difference. If it wasn't for the
irrigation the corn would be waist high and dead. And for "all the corn
needed for the livestock planted into hairy vetch" it's all waist high and
dead. I have corn planted into hairy vetch and crimsn clover and it's even
worse. As for the 7,000 acre BARC, most of the 7,000 acres is woods,
wetlands, plot research area and building complex. There may be 500 acres
of vetch corn. The University of Maryland farms the a large portion of the
actual farm and they don't use vetch. This story if very misleading and
may come back to haunt you and ARS. I thought you should know the real
story!

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