—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, May 27,1978
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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.
To best compare the yields
of the experimental plants'
with commercial soybean
plants’, Elden kept the
Mexican bean beetle out of
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the Maryland field tests
through chemical control.
“Had the tests included the
insects,” says Mr. Elden,
“the experimental plants
would have far-outyielded
the commercial plants. All
present commercial
varieties are highly
susceptible to this pest.”
The Beltsville research is
part of a broad USDA
program to develop insect
resistant soybean varieties
suited to different farming
regions. Other SEA scien
tists at the Soybean
Research Laboratory in
Stoneville, Miss., are
breeding and selecting
soybean plants for southern
growers. Advanced breeding
lines at Stoneville have
excellent resistance to the
Mexican bean beetle, good
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The scientists at all three
locations are working with
offspring of three highly
resistant soybean plants
discovered in South Carolina
in 1968. The plants being
tested at Beltsville, the
eighth generation, still have
strong resistance. The
chemical makeup of the
plants does not suit the
Mexican bean beetle -
causing a reduction in leaf
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development.
“Nowthat we have yields
comparable with
varieties," says Elden, “r*J
will continue to cross our
plants with commercial
varieties that have high
protein and oil content,
disease resistance, and other
quality factors. Some
resistance will be lost in the
breeding, but the progeny
could still stop yield
reductions by Mexican bean
beetles.”
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