COLLEGE PARK, Md. A
variety snubbed by farmers
and science five years ago has
made an abrupt about-face, tur
ning m an unheard-of harvest of
more than 100 bushels per acre,
according to research scientists
for the Maryland Agricultural
Experiment Station.
Agronomists at MAES’s Poplar
Hill Research Farm near
Salisbury, Md. say they have
recorded experimental harvests of
up to 104.6 bushels per acre of
"Biueboy”, a common wheat
variety that normally produces 70
bushels per acre. The average
wheat yield per acre in Maryland
last year was 38 bushels.
“Biueboy” was shunned and
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‘Biueboy 9 wheat makes comeback
finally removed from MAES’s list
of "recommended” wheat
varieties for Maryland farmers
five years ago when researchers
admitted they could not cope with
its extreme susceptibility to the
fungus powdery mildew.
“We know ‘Biueboy’ had a yield
potential of at least 90 bushels if,”
says research farm manager Ron
Mulford, “you could keep it
disease-free.” '
That is until this year.
Now MAES researchers have
taken a tip from across the
Atlantic where farmers in Great
Britain have reported wheat yields
of anywhere from 100 to 150
bushels per acre.
Their secret? They’ve been
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using a new type of fungicide
called “Baylaton” that has been
cleared by the U.S. government for
commercial use in two Midwest
states.
MAES researchers, however,
took the British method a few steps
further to accomplish their harvest
feat.
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another, more readily available
fungicide “Difolitain” and
increased total nitrogen ap
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its normal rate. Surprisingly, they
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the wheat’s maturing process to
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becomes so top-heavy it falls over
to the ground.
“The results were plainly
evident,” says Mulford, who points
out that, even without all the in
creased nitrogen fertilizer, simply
keeping the plants fungus-free
increased the harvest as much as
20 bushels per acre over normal
figures reported for "Biueboy.”
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find another harvest success.
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