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%.s -Advocate, August 29, 1984
Plant brooder ditalis slow process for new varieties at CCAT crop day
Doug White, secretary -
treasurer of the Ontario Soy-
bean Marketing Board, told a
lunchtime audience at CCAT
crop update day that last year
in Ontario 900,000 acres
planted to soybeans produced
27,000,000 bushels of the ver-
satile beans at an average
price of 9.36 per bushel for the
crop year ending August 31,
1984.
This year OMAF estimates
an acreage of 1,500,000.
Huron -Perth accounts for 13
percent of that total, with
135,000 acres planted to soys.
This is a 55 percent increase
from last year's acreage of
84,000. Perth county has one
of the largest increases, going
from 14,000 acres in 1983 to
25,000 this year.
Yields are expected to be in
the low 30s, the same as the
previous year, and White
gave a projected seasonal
price of, $6.50 to $6.60 per
bushel. `The current price
ranges from $6.10 to $6.20.
White said an advance pay-
ment of $3.81 per bushel or
$140 per ton was approved on
August 17.
A delegation of potential
buyers from Holland, the UK
and some of the Pacific rim
countries are coming in
September and will be
escorted around the coun-
tryside, White said.
Charles Broadwell,
manager of the Ontario Bean
Producers Marketing Board,
informed those attending crop
update day that Ontario's
white bean acreage has in-
creased from last year's
65,000 acres to79,000, which is
expected to yield approx-
imately 1,027,000 cwt. bags.
Ontario's competitors
Michigan, Minnesota and
North Dakota will add
another expected 4,448,000
bags.
The 01983 crop has been
"cleaned up", and growers
can expect another $5 or so at
the end of September, bring-
ing returns for the year to
over $28, Broadwell said.
Dr. Soon Park, a plant
specialist at the Harrow
Research Station near Wind-
sor, was on hand to tell those
touring the experimental
white bean plots that develop-
ing new varieties with higher
yields, greater resistance to
disease, more tolerance for
wet conditions at harvest,
earlier maturity and other
desirable traits is a slow,
methodical process. A plant
breeder is not going to sud-
denly shout "Eureka! I've
discovered Superbean!"
Researchers with the
federal department of
agriculture, provincial in-
stitutions at Ridgetown, Har-
row, Guelph University and
CCAT and private companies
are constantly searching for
better varieties, but the
journey from agrology lab to
farmer's seeder may take 12
to 15 years.
Researchers are constantly
alert for what they hope will
be the archetype of a new
variety that will give higher
yields, or be more resistant to
disease. One need has to be
balanced against a negative
side effect; sometimes yield
has to be sacrificed for earlier
maturity.
For the first two genera-
tions, plants are grown in
greenhouses. The bean plants
in the CCAT test plots are the
seventh or eighth generation
of 25 experimental varieties
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CHECKING BEAN VARIETIES — Harrow Station researcher Dr. Soon Park talks about
bean varieties with Kirkton area farmers Bill Squire, Bob Scott and John Scott.
New weeds emerging
At Wednesday's Crop Up-
date Day at Centralia College,
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