Bounty Best Wheat Variety Tops Kansas Tests 1983
Kansas State University reports Bounty hybrids lead the 1983 hard red winter wheat tests amid wet conditions favoring diseases. Bounty 310 yielded 104 bushels per acre under irrigation at St John, with most Bounty lines posting top averages. Arkan also showed strong station highs. Weather remains crucial as normal seasons may shift future performance.
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Manhattan
Kansas State University
Bounty
Cargill
KSU
T. L. Walter
St. John
Kansas
Vona
Arkan
Newton
Local soil testing lab serves three counties in Kansas
Franklin, Miami, and Osage counties share a basement lab in the Franklin County Court House. Bozworth notes the unit processes 600 to 700 samples yearly, with nitrate tests on silage a focus during drought. Curry runs tests, using color charts and a spectrometer, while staffing and equipment keep up with demand.
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Diane Yeamans
Franklin County Extension Service
Court House
Kansas
Bob Bozworth
Miami
Osage
Franklin
Bozworth
Carolyn Curry
Curry
Miami County
Wheat Diseases Cut Kansas Wheat Yield in 1983
Kansas wheat losses in 1983 reached 16.4 percent of the crop, about 73.1 million bushels and over $250 million. Researchers Sims and Willis at the KSU Fall Cereal Conference in Manhattan attributed the rise to foliar diseases speckled leaf blotch leaf rust and tan spot, with detailed regional losses across central and eastern counties.
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Sims
Willis
KSU
Mahattan
Hunt
Ila Ace
Corn Borer Research Gets Funds
Kansas corn growers will benefit from a funded project by the Kansas Corn Commission to refine when chemical controls for European corn borers are most economical. The grant of 8,753 dollars supports a one year study by VL Poster of Kansas State University entomology to create a damage loss model and economic injury level guiding pesticide use.
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Topeka
Kansas Corn Commission
Kansas
VL. Poster
Kansas State University Department of Entomology
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