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College buys farm for crop research
Farm research and demonstration
space at Centralia (allege uI
Agricultural Technology t CCAT l►a>
been greatly expanded with the pur-
chase of a 150 -acre farm.
The College has purchased the
former Larry Dobson farm, about tis o
miles north on concession 3 of Stephen
Township.
Jim 0 -Toole, head of the agronomy
department, said the acquisition of
the farm will result in "a very modest
change" in the research program this
year. It gives the program five times
as much acreage and has allowed it
to make one part-time technician full-
time. however, "the potential is there
for more people and more jobs," he
said.
Having the farm within two miles
of the college should also make the
research program more efficient by
eliminating the need for a five acre
substation at the W.B. Rowcliffe farm
at Hensrll.
"We should be able to run more test
plots even with the same manpower
because we're not'running all over the
country." O'Toole said.
Nevertheless. a Brussels' station
will be maintained because it is in a
2,610 corn heat unit area:
The newly acquired farm land was
purchased for $340,000 by the Ministry
of Government Services for use by the
college. It gained possession of the
land in April. The farm is located in
a 2.850 corn heat unit area. is
systematically tile drained and all but
ten acres is workable.
As well as the potential for an ex-
panded research program, one of the
immediate advafttages of the expand-
ed land base is that researcher will be
able to reduce.the variability in tests
by increasing crop rotation between
trials.
••We have been forced in previous
dears to plant trials such as a varie-
ty test in an area that had been a weed
control trial or a rate of nitrogen trial
the previous year. Even with small
plots and replicated trials, this dif-
ference can cause variability in a
test,' O'Toole said. Variability was
not yet a serious problem. he noted,
brit it was "becoming more critical
with time."
The large land base will also pro-
bably allow Centralia to expand
through more cooperative trials with
Agriculture Canada at Harrow and
the University of Guelph - both of
which. are presently conducting
research in the area, O'Toole said.
A Harrow plant breeder has been
using the CCAT site for screening ear-
ly maturing white beans. Centralia
and Guelph will be working together
on corn variety test plots this year
with the hope that Centralia can get
enough funding to take over the trials
next year. Centralia has not previous-
ly tested corn.
The college has submitted a pro-
posal to its senior management for
funding to build livestock facilities,
equipment storage buildings and an
office and laboratory building.
Farm manager, Fred Bowers, said
the farm will provide students with
valuable hands-on experience
because it is so accessible to the col-
lege. One female graduate from the
Agricultural Business Program did
not even know what a cultivator was.
he said. Practical experience could
solve this problem.
On the old research site at the col-
lege campus. O'Toole plans to
establish pure stands of specific
weeds such as bindweed, quackgrass
and nightshade to screen herbicides
-under different cropping programs.
"We will still probably cooperate
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with farmers at on-farm sites where
specific weed problems occur," he
said. But, he would prefer to do weed
research at the college because "i
hate leaving a mess of weeds in a
check strip on a co-operator's field."
Right now. about 70 per cent of the
test plot research at CCAT is con-
ducted on soyabeans and canola.
Canola, which is a new crop, is near-
ing the end of three years of trials
which have determined optimum
seeding rate, planting date and fer-
tilizer requirements for the crop. The
college will be decreasing its canola
research in general and putting more
emphasis on studying winter canolas.
Research on nitrogen fixation from
forages is also nearing completion.
Research on soyabeans began in
1979 and as the crop became more
popular with farmers in the area. it
received more attention. When
research began at the college. it con-
centrated on white beans and
rutabagas. Rutabagas have been
dropped from the program but
research continues on white and other
colored bears.
The research program depends on
commodity groups. private industry
and student employment programs
for up to 70 per cent of its lunding.
Currently the technical research stall
consists of two full-time technicians,
one technician on contract and a farm
manager who was formerly grounds
supervisor.
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