—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, May 27,1978 110 Mexican bean beetle battle BELTSVILLE, Md. - Experimental soybean plants that are resistant to Mexican bean beetles are yielding nearly as well as popular commercial varieties in field testa at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Beltsville Agricultural Research Center in Maryland. FFA awards banquet held WASHINGTON, N.J. - The tenth annual Warren Hills Future Farmers of America Parent Member Banquet was held on May 13. First year members of the FFA received the Greenhand Awards. Second year members received Chapter Farmer Awards. Outstanding Greenhand award was presented to Robert Kerkendall. Linda Hengst received the Star Chapter Farmer Award. The Warren Hills FFA Chapter presented 12 dif ferent proficiency awards. The ten first place awards are as follows; Poultry Production-Nancy Schnetz er; Beef Production-Don Rush; Swine Production- Raymond Kerkendall; Agriculture Mechanics-Ro bert Rutan; Crop Produc tion-Robert Rutan; Placement in Agriculture Production-Mike Anema; Soil and Water Proficiency- Sam Zachar; Home and Farmsted Improvement-N -ancy Schnetzer; Dairy Production-Mike Anema; According to Thomas Elden, research en tomologist with USDA’s Science and Education Administration (SEA), the new plants could eventually eliminate soybean losses to the Mexican bean beetle and still maintain yield levels and other qualify traits characteristic of today’s top and Livestock Production- Robert Jeskey. Also awards were given to those people who helped the chapter. They were presented with Honorary Chapter Farmer Awards. The recipients were Craig Lesher, Harry Scheiber, and Timothy Wasser. Robert Rutan received the Scholarship Award for improving his grades most progressively throughout the year. Sheridan Ames won first place in the local six to eight minute public speaking contest. Kathy Barton won first place in the three minute public speaking contest along with Donna Reese, winner of the Creed Contest. The highlight of the evening was when the Dekalb award was presented to Nancy Schnetzer and Sam Zachar for being outstanding seniors. Their names will be engraved on a plaque. They will receive a pin, certificate and an award from the Warren Grange. They also received a cash award of $35 from the chapter. soybean varieties. The resistant plants could be available to growers in two tofour years. The Mexican bean beetle is a serious pest of soybeans throughout most of the mid- Atlantic and Southeastern states and parts of the Midwest. Crop yields can be reduced by as much as 25 per cent. The development of high yielding, resistant soybean plants, says Elden, could head off a current geographic spread of the insect’s ravages, and thus reduce the need for in secticides. 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