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Featured speaker for the program, William H. McClure, was a crowd pleaser. McClure is an animal scientist and superintendent at the Shenandoah Valley Research Station at Steeles Tavern. His pioneer work in no-till forage led to some amusing moments. A Shenandoah area state senator visited to view the experimental techniques being used at Steeles Tavern and saw scientists walking in the field poking holes in the ground with poles to plant the seeds. “My God!” McClure says the senator exclaimed, “The Indians did it better in 1610!”
No-till methods have gone on to be generally recognized as sound conservation techniques and McClure says his research station is now working on no-till alfalfa. More than 3,200 acres in this district were converted to no-till corn production this year. The practice is predicted to make the plow obsolete.
The scientists also are working on techniques that McClure promises will soon
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