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acre.
“Your livelihood depends on what’s happening in
“The increase in yields is almost unbelievable,” Eugene
politics,” he said.
Glock said. “We’re becoming much more efficient. We
Even at the local level, you can still be involved with
have to be, because costs are so much greater than they
school boards, township boards, and coop boards.
used to be.”
“Somebody needs to do those things,” Eugene Glock
When Eugene started farming in the 1950s, he started
said. “You don’t have any room to complain if you’re not
with a 2-row planter. People didn’t apply fertilizer. You
going to help.”
planted, then cultivated a few times.
Over the years, Eugene Glock has been involved with
“Now, the neighbors own a 24-row planter,” Eugene
many local, state, and national organizations.
Glock said. “And you don’t cultivate anymore.”
He’s been a member of the school board, the township
Irrigating has also changed tremendously.
board, the coop board, and is on the president’s advisory
“When I started irrigating in 1956, we used open ditch
board of the University of Nebraska.
and siphon tubes. Then we went to gated pipe, then we
He was the first president of the Nebraska Soybean
went to pivot,” he said.
Association,
With gravity irrigation, they
has been on
averaged
about 18-20 inches of
“The increase in yields is almost
the National
water pumped per acre. In the
unbelievable. We’re becoming much
Soybean board,
last five years, using pivots and
more efficient.”
president of the
Servi-Tech crop consultants, the
-
Eugene
Glock
Butler County
Glocks have used an average of 5
Soil and Water
inches of water pumped per acre.
Conservation District, a 4-H Club leader, and has held
about every position in his church, Immanuel Lutheran
“It was wonderful.”
Church.
Ted Glock said the best Servi-Tech report came in
Eugene Glock said he wants to encourage other farmers around 1998 after a wind storm blew a bunch of tree
who turn the business over to their sons or daughters to
branches in the bean field.
truly turn the farm over to them.
“The report said ‘Large patches of deciduous forest in
“Let them make the decisions and give advice if they
the beans. Recommend applying six medium sized men,
ask for it,” Eugene Glock said.
two chainsaws and a loader. If you can’t get a loader,
Eugene Glock said the person who deserves all the
substitute four extra guys and three more chainsaws.’
credit is his wife, Melba. They’ve been married 65 years.
“It was wonderful.”
“She held the fort down because I was gone a lot,”
The Glocks said they’ve had great crop consultants over
Eugene said. “She stayed home to make sure the cattle
the years.
and hogs were taken care of. She ran the combine a lot
“We’ve had some excellent, excellent professionals
for me in the early years – best combine operator I ever
working in our fields. They just make us do a better job,”
had.”
Ted Glock said. “We let them do our worrying for us.
And they allow us to use our resources the best that we
Changes
can.”
Eugene Glock graduated from the University of
Nebraska in 1951.
Miracles
He planted his 70th crop of corn this year.
Eugene Glock said that in whatever you do, you have to
When he first started planting corn, his Dad let him
keep God in the mix.
farm the best piece of land by the creek.
“What we do is a miracle,” he said. “We plant 33,000
Anhydrous ammonia was 4 cents a pound. The Glocks
kernels of corn to the acre. Last fall, we harvested over 22
had a good year that year and raised 100 bushels/acre
million kernels per acre. That’s got to be a miracle.”
corn.
He added: “We need people who know how to take
Last year, they had corn that made over 280 bushels per those miracles and make them better.”
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