TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, May 27, 1992
Fishburn, Grant earn degrees
Conservationist offers help from wind erosion
Remember all the dust blowing
last October? Soil losses from
wind erosion on smooth, bare
ground can add up to over 30 tons
per acre per year, according to
Loren Unruh, district conserva
tionist. Soil loss from snow melt
running off frozen soil can also
be great, he said.
Morrow County receives 50
percent of its annual wind bet
ween September and March. This
is also the period that the land has
in fall planted crop has the least
amount of protection. Saving am
ple crop residues is one of the
cheapest and easiest methods of
protecting crop land from ero
sion, especially wind erosion,
said Unruh. In many parts of the
county, grain and residue yields
were lower than average last
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year. Now is the time to plan for
saving those residues and think
about alternative practices to help
protect your land from erosion.
How much is enough? Many of
the Food Security Act (FSA) con
servation plans ask for a
minimum of 30 percent residue
cover of 500 pounds residue per
acre after planting. Luckily, 500
pounds of grain residue will pro
tect the soils from wind at about
four tons per acre per year soil
loss level, from September
through March. The land is
generally adequately protected by
growing crop the other months.
Four tons per acre soil loss is
below the soil loss tolerance of
some soils and meets the alter
native soil loss requirement of
many of our FSA plans. Seven
hundred pounds of residue will
protect soil down to just under
two tons per acre per year for this
seven month period and at 1000
pounds of residue there should be
well under a ton of soil loss per
acre.
Another good practice for wind
erosion control is to keep the land
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surface as rough as possible after
seeding. Using deep furrow drills
with 10 to 16 inch rows leaving
a furrow of three to four inches
deep does this very nicely, said
Unruh. This combination has
good wind protection until the
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May 19
Flight A: low gross-Eileen
Padberg; low net-Anita Boyer
and Jan Paustian; least putts-
Barbara Gilbert; long drive-short
drive-Barbara Gilbert.
Flight B: low gross-Juanita
Martin; low net-Jo Pettyjohn;
least putts- Carol Norris; long
drive-Juanita Martin.
Flight C: low gross-Mary
Beamer; low net-Dorris Graves;
least putts-Lorena Jones; long
drive-Lucille Massey and Linda
Schultz.
Sunday M en’s Flay
Low gross: a tie for first bet
ween Ron Bowman and Howard
Gilliam, 67; second-Ray Reid.
Gary Watkins and Jay Straley,
70.
Low net: first-Frank Bailey,
54; second-Vic Bowman 55;
third-Dave Mitchell 57; fourth-
Gene Sonstegard 59; fifth-Earl
Norris 60.
Long drive-George Waterland.
K.P. Gary Watkins.
May 12
Flight A: low gross-Harriet
Pierson; low net-Barbara Gilbert;
least putts-Lois Hunt and Martha
Peterson; chip in-# 14 Martha
Peterson.
Flight B: low gross-Juanita
Martin; low net-Neoma Bailey
and Jo Pettyjohn; least putts-
Carol Norris.
Flight C: low gross-Norma
French; low net-Murial Palmer;
least putts-Annie Lusher; chip in-
#15 Norma French, #16 Muriel
Palmer.
Jack and Jill Tournam ent
May 15
Low gross: first-Frank and
Neoma Bailey; second-Mike and
Cindi Doherty; a tie for third,
fourth and fifth-Gene and Luvilla
Sonstegard, Duane and Robanai
D isque, Dave and Karen
Wildman; sixth-Gary and Bar
bara Watkins.
Low net: first-Wayland and Pat
Hyatt; second-Craig and Debbie
Gutierrez; third-Duck and Annie
Lusher; a tie for fourth and fifth-
Floyd and Lorena Jones and Earl
and Peggy Fishburn; sixth-Earl
and Carol Norris.
Special events: KP second shot
#1 Dave and Karen Wildman; #4
men-Earl Fishburn, women-
Neoma Bailey.
Chip ins: Reese and Linda
Schultz, Dave and Karen
Wildman and Eldon and Barbara
Gilbert.
Other special awards went to
Stan Kemp, Betty Christman,
Gary and Martha Munkers and
Riley and Bebe Munkers.
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rows are within 20 degrees of
parallel with the wind (nearly
running with the wind).
The 500-pound residue amount
will also help protect soil from
sheet and rill erosion by water if
cross slope farming is done as a
supplem ental practice. The
residue amounts need to be
significantly more without cross
slope farming. More residue and
cross slope farming are both re
quired as slopes get steeper. Sub
soiling may also be used to help
meet the acceptable soil loss level
for a particular field or soil.
Terraces do a great job of in
tercepting concentrated flow ero
sion (large rills or small gullies)
but are less effective for sheet and
rill erosion unless spaced closer
together than the slope length is
long. Slope length is defined as
the distance from where water
starts to run to where it ponds up
or forms a gully. Slope lengths
run from 350 feet or less on 15
percent slopes up to about 550
feet on slopes of 5 percent.
In years of low straw yield it
may be hard to end up with
enough residue to meet the
residue cover requirement in
some FSA plan. Ideally, the
number of tillage operations
should be reduced in order to end
up with the required amount of
residue. “ I have seen some
farmers going across their fields
on an ATV hand hoeing Russian
thistles and other weeds in the
summer fallow rather than getting
on the tractor and rodweeding,”
said Unruh. “ I admire that kind
of effort to save residue, meet the
requirements of the FSA plan and
save some diesel fuel too.
Another alternative may be to
plant early, if there is adequate
moisture, in order to have 30 per
cent or more ground cover of
growing wheat by December 1.
In other words substitute green
cover for residue cover.
We have all heard the old say
ing “ there is more than one way
to skin a cat” . The same is true
of soil and water conservation,
continued Unruh. There are lots
of combinations of practices that
can get the soil loss to the accep
table level.
“ If you have a problem or just
want to discuss conservation, stop
in at the SCS office in Heppner
or give us a call at 676-5021,”
Unruh added. “ We will be hap
py to talk with you.”
Mark Fishburn and Greg Grant
will receive degrees at Oregon
State University’s 123rd annual
commencement on Sunday, June
14. Fishburn will receive his
bachelors in radiation health
physics. He is the son of Earl
and Peggy Fishburn. Grant will
receive a master of education
degree. Both are from Heppner.
Ceremonies are scheduled to
begin at 2 p.m. in OSU’s Gill
Coliseum. Philip Habib, former
U.S. diplomat, will receive an
honorary doctoral degree.
The commencement will be
telecast “ live” throughout
Oregon on the Oregon Public
Broadcasting Network.
OSU president John Byrne will
preside and award degrees to ap
proximately 170 doctoral can
didates, 600 master’s degree can
didates and 2,730 bachelor’s
degree candidates. Some 3,465
students are expected to earn
degrees with 78 receiving two or
more degrees.
Students experience outdoors
Caleb McDaniel, Jayme Hansen and Adam Doherty perform
duties at the sixth grade outdoor school held at the Tupper
work center during last week.
Heppner and lone students, teachers and high school stu
dent counselors participate annually in the outdoor school.
The students have classroom time, learn outdoor skills, help
clean up and eat, sleep and have fun together during the five-
day experience. The weather was beautiful this year but
previous years have seen rain and snow.
Wranglers set
summer
playdays
The Wranglers -Riding Club
has set the schedule for summer
playdays. Playdays will be all
four Fridays in June beginning at
6:30 p.m. at the Wrangler
grounds in Heppner.
Age groups will remain the
same as for spring playdays.
Games will be barrels, poles and
a committee choice. The snack
shack will be open. The date for
the day ride has also been ten
tatively set for July 18.
For more information contact
Janet Greenup, 676-5822 or Judy
Barber 676-5037.
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