A4B-Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, August 11,1990
Ag Progress Days
technique could take the form of a
small field kit that a grower could
place some of the target insects in
from his field and see which insec
ticides the insects are resistant to
and which they are susceptible to.
Rabbits Bring Highest Price,
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predicting which pesticides will
have the best chance of success
against insects that have deve
loped resistance to certain classes
of insecticides. If successful, this
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ers, this year’s sale saw a notice
able increase in participants and
observers, with 94 bidders
registered.
Another first for this year’s
livestock sale was the awarding of
a sl,ooo-a-year college scholar
ship by H.J. Smith & Sons, of
Annville.
The first recipient of the scho
larship is Kevin Goss, who is to
attend Millersville College and
pursue a degree in art education.
Goss is currently a member of the
county 4-H dairy club.
The scholarship is to be awarded
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LELY
annually, and those who remain
eligible and maintain a minimum
2.50 cumulative grade point aver
age, can continue to recieve a
$l,OOO scholarship for up to four
years.
Overall, compared to last year’s
sale, most prices and numbers
were higher.
In 1989, champions sold, per
pound, at: steer $1.90, lamb $4,
hog $4.10, carcass hog $350, car
cass lamb $lOO.
On the average, hogs sold this
year at $1.68 a pound, steer $1.07,
lamb $2.05, rabbit $7.98.
More effective control and less
money wasted would be the result.
Improved innoculants for
legume seeds are being deve
loped. These innoculants will con
tain “super” strains of rhizobia
that will allow legumes to be even
more efficient in fixing nitrogen
from the air. We may also see a
new way that the famous biologi
cal insecticide Bacillus thuring
iensis is used. By incorporating a
gene from Bt into an endophytic
fungus and then infecting seed
com with the endophyte, the toxin
from the Bt spreads throughout
the com plant as it grows. The
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And rightly so, since about half of
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this type of work. Varieties of
crops resistant to certain herbi
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cides. Manipulation of genes to
produce more pest resistant crops
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