US wheat team declines speculation on USSR crop (■Washington, d.c. - a team of U.S. wheat specialists has returned from a tour of the Soviet Union but declined to speculate on the size of this year’s Soviet spring wheat crop. According to Keith Severin, team leader and a Soviet specialist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service, “We really didn’t see enough on this trip to be able to predict the size of the total crop. Although we visited farms in five regions representing 25 percent of Soviet spring wheat production during our three weeks in the USSR, we were unable to see some of the most important producing areas of the southern Urals and western Siberia.” The spring wheat team included Arthur F. Shaw, an agronomist from Bozeman, Mont., and Dopavon C. Loeslie, a spring wheat from Warren, Minn. Dale Posthumus, agricultural officer with the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, was with the team in Kokchetev, Kustanay and Kurgan. 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It also visited Kurgan, a political sub division in the eastern Ural Mountains, and autonomous republics of Tatar and Bashkir located along the upper Volga River and western Urals, respectively. “All areas we visited has some weather difficulties during die 1982 season, Severin said. “Harvest was just beginning in Kokchetav, was more advanced in Kustanay, well underway in Kurgan and Tatar, and completed in the area of Bashkir we visited,” Severin said. “In these areas, low soil moisture and below-normal temperatures at planting time possibly caused the thin, short stands we observed in some fields. Head size, however, was reported better than in 1981 and conditions SWINE & POULTRY SYSTEMS SPECIALISTS were good for kernel filling," he said. Among the various cultural practices used in the USSR to increase and stabilize spring wheat yields, fallow is among the most important, according to Severin. He said fallow has in creased substantially in the last 6-7 years and accounts for as much as 20 percent of arable land used in some areas. In addition to con serving moisture in these areas where normal average precipitation amounts to 12-16 inches annually, fallow in the crop rotation helps to control weeds. Wild oats and Canadian thistle are the most serious weeds in spring wheat. “Farmers told us they receive only about one-third of the amount of chemical fertilizer recom mended for their grain crops,” Severin said. Weather conditions generally have been favorable this year for the production of forage crops, the team reported. Com and sun flowers, often mixed in silage, ★ Diclcison Brood Grow Cages Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 25,1982—D19 were developing well in the nor thern areas, and vast quantities of straw an important roughage in the USSR also were available. In Kurgan Oblast and the Tatar Republic, farmers reportedly put up enough roughage this season to last a year and a half. During their visit, team mem bers visited agricultural research institutes, experiment stations, schools for training agricultural specialists, a seed cleaning plant and state and collective farms. “In final discussions at the USSR PRVpamphlet available SOUTH ST. PAUL, MN - Two new pamphlets about swine pseudorabies have been published by Livestock Conservation In stitute, announced Neal Black, president. "Epidemiology ot PKV - Current Knowledge” is the text ot a presentation given at LCl’s annual meeting by Dr. David Thawley, University ot Missouri, co chairman ot LUl's Pseudorabies committee. The pamphlet conlauis the latest information about the pseudorabies virus and ad vantages and disadvantages ot various control procedures. ‘‘Swine Pseudorabies Eradication Guidelines” describes three methods tor eradicating the disease trom a herd. 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