Study Shows Intensive Wheat Management Can Increase Profits ATLANTA, Ga. - Intensive management practices which achieved triple-digit yields of soft red wheat in research plots are now being implemented with similar results on farms. Teams of research and extension scientists from Maryland and Virginia have been studying, in dependently, intensive wheat management for the eastern U.S. Their research the past five years has proven that wheat yields of 100 bushels per acre, or more, can be grown consistently in research plots. The package of production practices necessary to achieve these yields in research included: the use of proven varieties, good seedbed preparation, adequate phosphorus and potassium nutrition, timely planting, tramlines, narrow rows, higher nitrogen rates in split applications, fungicides, and growth regulators. 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OREGON WATER SALES Leola, PA 717-656-8380 If no answer, call early in the morning or evenings. supported in part by the Potash & Phosphate Institute (PPI) and the Foundation for Agronomic Research (FAR). Results were very encouraging, even during an extremely dry spring and summer. Farmers should be alert to the opportunities of higher yields produced with intensive management practices and the resulting higher profit potential due to lower unit cost of produc tion. The table below summarizes results from several locations across the two states. Dr. Dan Brann, Virginia Tech small grains specialist, took the results one step further and calculated profit between the two systems. He found that the in tensive management system gave an additional average net income of $20.26 per acre for the four locations. The yields on the control areas in these demonstrations were generally very good, much better than state average yields. Good management is a factor here. The Maryland and Virginia teams used good varieties, planted on time ti / 'V' 'ia"r with a good seedbed, and applied fall fertilizer according to soil test on both intensively managed and control areas. Also in the Maryland tests, both areas were planted using 4-inch rows and tramlines. Dr. Ron Mulford, agronomist, University of Maryland says, “I feel we are capable of producing wheat yielding 90 to 100 bushels per acre in Maryland, on a large scale basis.” KALAMAZOO, Mich. - A dairy herd management guide recently published by The Upjohn Company features management guidelines from six nationally-known dairy experts on controlling mastitis. “Mastitis costs dairy producers, on the average, $225 per cow per year,” says Philip Sears, D.V.M., Ph.D., director of the New York State Mastitis fW’-"' Program. •r Vaujbk Farmers interested in adopting conditions well enough so tne system should leam the economically sound input management factors involved and decisions can be made, the know soil and wheat growing specialists conclude. 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