—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 23, 1972
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USDA Announces Research Agreements
Ten research agreements have
been signed with State
agricultural experiment stations
for studies on specific
agricultural subjects, the U.S.
Department of Agriculture
(USDA) reports.
The agreements, funded by
USDA’s Agricultural Research
Service CARS), will provide data
for a broad, continuing program
to improve the efficiency of
agricultural production and
marketing and to protect the
environment. The agreements
signed are-
A three-year, $55,000
cooperative agreement with the
Pennsylvania Agricultural
Experiment Station, University
Park, to purify and chemically
characterize the components of
crownvetch that might harm
grazing animals. Crownvetch has
potential as a forage crop for
ruminent animals or as sup
plement feed for hogs and
chickens if the harmful
ingredients can be removed.
A three-year, $40,000
cooperative agreement with the
Montana Agricultural Research
Station, Bozeman, to do research
on ergot, a fungus disease of
wheat and barley. Sm6e there are
no known ergot-resistant
varieties and no fungicides or
cultural practices that
adequately control the disease,
control is the ultimate research
goal of this project.
A three-year, $24,200
cooperative agreement with the
Michigan Agricultural Ex
periment Station, East Lansing,
to investigate the physiological
nature of resistance to cereal leaf
beetle, one of the major insect
problems limiting production of
cereal crops,
A three-year, $35,000
cooperative agreement with the
Ohio Agricultural Research and
Development Center, Wooster, to
establish a basis for an in
tegrated Southern corn leaf
blight control program using
chemical and biological methods.
A three-year, $36,000
cooperative agreement with the
Nebraska Agricultural Ex
periment Station, Lincoln, to
conduct basic research on bac
terial leaf blights of corn, to in
clude mechanism of spread,
variation of bacterial strains,
evaluation of genetic sources of
resistance, and interrelations
among bacterial ang fungal
blights
A two-year, $28,500 cooperative
agreement with the Arkansas
Agricultural Experiment Station,
Fayetteville, to study biological
control of northern jointvetch, a
serious week of rice fields. ’Hie
research will emphasize
evaluation of an indigenous
fungus (of the imperfect
Gloeosporium) as the
control agent.
A two-year, $20,096 grant to
North Carolina Agricultural
Experiment Station, Raleigh, to
investigate the use of growth
regulators, other than 2, 4-D, to
control witchweed in corn. Ob
jectives include determining if
the growth regulators will
prevent flowering by witchweed,
and evaluating several chemicals
as seed treatments to protect
corn against injury from her
bicides that are effective against
witchweed.
A three-year, $20,000
cooperative agreement with the
Minnesota Agricultural Ex
periment Station, St. Paul, to
research the effect of soil
structure on the water tran
smission and particle detach
ment characteristics of the soil
during rainfall. In addition,
scientists will study the effects of
sewage waste on changes in soil
organic matter and soil struc
ture, and in turn, on changes m
water transmission through soils.
A two-year, $lO,OOO cooperative
agreement with the Arkansas
Agricultural, Mechanical and
Normal College, Pine Bluff, to
determine weed seed population,
dormancy and viability in soils of
the Mississippi Delta. This will
provide fundamental information
necessary for effective weed
control.
A two-year, $48,500 research
grant to Virginia Polytechnic
Institute and State University,
Blacksburg, for basic studies on
the effects of magnetic and
electrostatic fields on insects.
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