Students go home
to help family farm
HARVEST from page 1
Potential fanners, regardless of
where they grew up, should help with
harvest, he said. The 12 to 14-hour
days will help students decide if they
are cut out for farming.
“Farming is a long-term commit
ment” because of the expense of land
and equipment, Paczosa said.
“You should ask yourself, ‘Do I
want to be doing this for the next 30
or 40 years?’” he said.
Scott Kloke, a senior in animal sci
ence and agribusiness, said helping his
family with harvest was a practical
education, necessary for any agricul
ture student.
Those who have not worked dur
ing harvest are “at a very distinct dis
advantage,” Kloke said.
Professors on East Campus know
this, he said, and work with students
who must skip class occasionally to
help with harvest.
“Most teachers on East Campus are
a little bit more understanding than
those on City Campus,” he said. “They
know it’s almost critical that (students)
do get home and help out.”
Agriculture professors help stu
dents by allowing them to take tests
and complete homework early, he said.
Kloke said he farms to help pay his
tuition as well as to gain practical ex
perience. This year’s good harvest
should help him and his family, he said.
Corn prices are dropping, but
should remain above average in spite
of high crop yields, Kloke said.
Pfeiffer said last fall’s low crop
yields kept com prices unusually high
this summer. July and August prices
hovered around $3.60 per bushel, he
said.
During summer months, farmers
were concerned that this year’s crop
could be another poor crop, Pfeiffer
said. Instead, ideal growing conditions
Farming's like driiP
ing a car; you have
to go out and learn.
You can read all the
books you want, but
it jdoesn't do any
good unless you get
behindthe wheel."
Tim Paczosa
junior mechanized systems
management major
have set Nebraska for a record crop,
and the market is responding.
This means falling com prices, he
said, hut prices should not fall too low.
Prices still remain above average at
$2.80 a bushel.
Some fanning students and their
families could be set to “make out like
bandits,” he said.
Many contracted their predicted
fall crop to buyers at this summer’s
high prices, Pfeiffer said. Contracting
is when farmers sell their unharvested
crop at high prices
in an attempt to maximize profits.
Because crop yields are high, most
farmers should meet their contract
commitments, he said.
Only an extended period of rain or
snow could threaten harvest now, he
said. Soggy fields would stop com
bines, and heavy snows could beat
down com stalks.
But milo fanners are hifPft 4JH
little harsh weather, he said. Mild
weather conditions have kept inilo
growing andjgreen, when fanners
would like to see their crops drying to
%goldenbrown.t ^ ' V> %
A hard freeze would help die dry
ing process, Pfeiffer said. Afreeze, now
would have negligible effects on cprn
nculture predicted a l. 18^1&)t\bu^^ i
com crop this yejar. That level would
be 2 percent higher than the preyio&s i
record crop in 1994,and38 percent
higher than last year’s pdiGr harvest.
If favorable, dry weath6r.contidifcs,
soybean production also could be high ?
— the second highest on record. %*■ - •
Production is forecasted at a total
Nebraska yield of 135.45 million bush
els, 34 percent higher than last fall. "
In another 21/2tofhree weeks, the 1
waiting, hard work and wondering will
be over.Pfetffer sai£ Harvest wp
will be
Above: LOUIS PACZOSA
evens out his father's load
of corn Thursday before
Louis and Tim took the load
to the elevator to sell.
Left: TIM PACZOSA
unloads the corn. The
elevator handles about
55,000bushels of com a day,
and the high is 200,000
bushels a day during the
rush.
Photos
by
Matt
Miller
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I
oor ice rink
public use
Renovations to the rink in the State Fair Park
Coliseum began in April. Although the SB-mil
lion renovation was fundedby the Stars’ own
ers, Irv Dana III, Thomas Tegt and Kent -
Reckewey, the state will still own the facility.
Jim Mug, vice president of die Lincoln
Stars, said the rink should open to the public
later this month. The facility would be the first
indoor ice rink in Lincoln.
When plans for apractice rink for the USHL
team were announced, Mug said, people ex
pressed an interest in opening the rink to the
public. . „ .
The rink has to be 100-percent safe before it
opens for public ice skating, he said. Carpet and
matting still have to be installed, Pflug said, and
the heating and air conditioning system has to
be setat the correct level. „
Although hours and admission rates have not
been set, Pflug said “making the rink economi
cally, accessible” to the public was a primary
&$ehher admission rates nor hours have been
set Pnug said students would not get a reduced
rate for admission or rentals, but he encouraged
college groups to book the rink for parties and
other events.
“That’s one thing we want people to know
— is that fraternities, sororities or any other
group can look into this,” Pflug said.
Pflug also said the public’s use of the rink
would have an impact on the condition of the
ice, but a correctable one.
“It’ll take a share of abuse,” Pflug said. “But
that’s just die trade off. One of the reasons we
wanted to put a rink in Lincoln is so the public
cpuld skate on it”
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jfeTHICS from page 1
that it was setbefore ASUN truly realized what
was involved in the task.
“Anyone that spehds time trying to draft a -
document comes to the realization that if is .
something that takes time,” Griesen said. “Eric
is just learning with this new experience.”
Marintzer said the delay was caused by a
desire to get more input.
‘I’ve been talking to students and faculty,”
he said. “I want this to be a document that ev
ery * ts had a chance to have input on.”
tzer plans to bring the code of ethics
before the Presidential Roundtable on Oct. 29,
and discuss it at an upcoming ASUN meeting.
Another reason for slow progress on the code
of ethics was concern to keep from “imposing
morals” on students, Marintzer said.
To avoid that, Marintzer said, he has been
careful to ensure that die code of ethics was short
and included broad wording.
Griesen also said that specific wording can
lead to problems.
' “I think that it’s important that we don’t have
unreasonable expectations,” Griesen said.
Marintzer said he hopes to have the code of
ethics near completion by the middle or end of
November.
Griesen aaid he was much more concerned
with the quality of the document and would not
mind if it became a longer process.
“I think I speak for myself and Chancellor
Moeser in saying that we would really like to
have a creed created that would be able to last
for decades and decades,” Griesen said.
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