We rotate our crops about every three years. The couple stores cow manure in a pit. Every spring and fall, they spread the manure on the soil surface and disc it in. The chicken manure is high in nitrogen, so we use that on our corn fields because corn takes nitrogen out of the ground. Alfalfa needs potash, which we buy commercially and apply.
Conservation is very important for farmers.
Franklin Regional High School, representing Westmoreland County, finished second. York County's Red Lion Senior High School finished third. Fifty counties were represented by their local Envirothon winners, who were challenged on the topics of aquatics, forestry, soils, wildlife and greenways. The team-oriented environmental competition is sponsored by the State Conservation Commission , the Pennsylvania Association of Conservation Districts and Pennsylvania's 66 conservation districts. Hershey Foods has been the program's major financial supporter for the past five years.