Elo—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 23,1980 Md. Crop EASTON, Md. - More than 90 percent of the Maryland soybean acreage in recent years has been planted to seven varieties released to growers since 1968 by the Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station m joint breeding programs with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and research workers at other land-grant univer sities. These new soybeans have included Essex, Miles, Williams, York, Wye, Bay and Shore, reports James R. Miller, agronomy depart ment chairman at the University of Maryland in College Park. Partly as a result of these improved varieties, the most recent five-year average for soybean yields in Maryland Consumers removed MEDIA Today’s Penn sylvania consumer, who is statistically less and less likely to be a fanner, selects food from a well-lighted supermarket. Urban dwellers no longer look at the darkened, threatening summer sky the same way residents of farming com munities have for generations. Urbanites may appreciate the need for ram to make crops grow, but, according to James J. McKeehen, Delaware County extension agncultural agent, not be aware that too much at the wrong time can also nun a crop. Today’s consumer knows more about prices of agricultural products and food than he does produc tion, though he may not know that he pays less of his L*W- For Liquid Manure Storage. 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This compares with a figure of only $12.5 million in 1968. In addition to soybean breeding work, the Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station par ticipated in 1976 with crop scientists at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in a joint release of Potomac, a soft red winter wheat. Another wheat variety is now being developed jointly m the two states. It is still in (arm from paycheck for food than any other country in the world. Also many consumers seem not to know tnat only about 40 cents of every dollar spent for food to the farmer or rancher. have a nice weekend.. SHARE SOMETHING the experimental stage. The new advanced breeding line is expected to be named and released to growers in another year or two. It appears to carry more resistance to powdery mildew than Potomac, and it holds promise of being more suitable for double-cropping with soybeans. 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The Maryland Crop Im provement Association was founded m 1906. Its purposes and aims are to cooperate with the College of Agriculture, Agricultural Experiment Station and extension service at the University of Maryland particularly the agronomy and horticulture depart ments-m improving crops in the state. The association also cooperates with the Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station in the dissemination of foundation seed stocks and with the state Department of Agriculture in a seed cer tificiation program. Tickets for the association’s annual dinner meeting are available at program $3.50 each. Reservations' may be made by calling 301/269-2339 m Annapolis during weekday office hours. Eastern Shore residents may prefer to call 301/749- 4933 at Salisbury. All in terested persons-are invited to attend.
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