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The Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, Auguat 4, 1983-SEVEN
Conflict between farmers' program seen
The federal government has
launched so many programs
to help the nation's farmers
and ranchers that perhaps
conflict between some of them
is inevitable. Such appears to
be the case where the
S.T.E.E.P. (Solutions to Eco
nomic and Environmental
Problems) program and the
P.l.K. (Pavment-in-Kind)
program are concerned, ac
cording to Darrell Maxwell,
Oregon State University Ex
tension agronomist for
S.T.E.E.P.
Agricultural researchers
working on the cropland soil
erosion problem in the
U.S.D.A.'s S.T.E.E.P. pro
gram in Eastern Oregon have
come up with a way to limit
erosion, but it may hamper
the effectiveness of the
U.S.D.A. P.l.K. program, in
tended to boost grain prices.
Where the goals of P.l.K.
and S.T.E.E.P. appear at odds
is in annual cropping, a
S.T.E.E.P. strategy, says
Maxwell.
No-till annual cropping is
recommended as an alterna
tive to the summer fallow
method that has been use in
dryland wheat production for
many years.
Summer fallow means leav
ing a field tilled with no crop
planted in alternate years.
This method is used In semi
arid regions because it helps
control weeds, causes organic
matter in the soil to release
nitrogen and allows the soil to
store water for the next year's
crop,
The no-till annual cropping
method consists of planting a
crop, every year, directly into
a seedbed not tilled since
harvest of the previous crop,
explains Robert Ramig,
U.S.D.A. Agricultural Re
search Service soil scientist at
the Columbia Plateau Conser
vation Research Center near
Pendleton.
Leaving residue from pre
vious crops on the soil surface
helps prevent soil erosion
caused by wind and water by
holding the soil in place, he
said. The residue also slows
evaporation of water from the
soil, thereby conserving water
for crops.
Over-production of grains
was one cause of the adoption
of the summer fallow system
in the first place, he added.
In most cases a farmer
won't use a cultivation prac
tice if the return from it isn't
likely to yield an immediate
benefit, Maxwell said. This is
especially true now because of
low grain prices and high
production costs.
No-till cropping has benefits
other than reduced soil ero
sion, but farmers may not find
them attractive enough to
adopt.
No-till cropping lowers the
cost of production by saving
fuel, time, labor and wear on
machinery, but there are ad
ditional costs for fertilizers,
and for herbicides used in
place of tillage to control
weeds, Ramig said.
Agricultural researchers
recommend no-till annual
cropping where soils are shal
low (less than three feet deep)
and enough rain falls during
the first winter after harvest
to saturate the soil with water.
Soils on about 60 percent of the
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The annual cropping strat
egy conflicts with P.l.K. be
cause of the greater produc
tion realized from planting a
field every year instead of in
alternate years, Ramig explained.
A major purpose of the
P.l.K. program is to reduce
grain stocks by planting less
farmland in grain producing
crops. However, wheat grow
ers who go to no-till annual
cropping to slow soil erosion
on their land produce more
instead of less wheat, Maxwell
said.
cropland in the Columbia Pla
teau and Palouse and Nez
Perce prairies of Eastern Ore
gon and Washington are less
than three feet in depth, he
explained.
Successful no-tili annual
cropping requires careful resi
due management and weed
control, proper seeding and
fertilization and crop rotation,
Ramig added.
Maxwell and Ramig said
they believe only about five
percent of the grain growers
in Eastern Oregon and Wash
ington will try no-till annual
cropping.
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