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Louisiana Agriculture Magazine, Fall 1985, Lsu Agricultural Experiment Station Oct 1985

Louisiana Agriculture Magazine, Fall 1985, Lsu Agricultural Experiment Station

Louisiana Agriculture

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Louisiana Agriculture Magazine, Summer 1985, Lsu Agricultural Experiment Station Jul 1985

Louisiana Agriculture Magazine, Summer 1985, Lsu Agricultural Experiment Station

Louisiana Agriculture

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Louisiana Agriculture Magazine, Spring 1985, Lsu Agricultural Experiment Station Apr 1985

Louisiana Agriculture Magazine, Spring 1985, Lsu Agricultural Experiment Station

Louisiana Agriculture

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Christian Alternative To Land As A Commodity, Duane Bajema Mar 1985

Christian Alternative To Land As A Commodity, Duane Bajema

Pro Rege

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Eradicating Fruit Fly From Carnarvon, Kingsley Thomas Fisher Jan 1985

Eradicating Fruit Fly From Carnarvon, Kingsley Thomas Fisher

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

Late last year the Mediteranean fruit fly (Ceratitis capitata Weidemann) was eradicated from Canarvon, Western Australia by using an intergrated programme of sterile insect releases and bait spraying.

The eradication marked the end of a four-year study on the use and effectiveness of the Sterile Insect Technique, a biological control technique which uses an insect pest against itself. such a study can be used as a basis for treating other threatening insect pests, such as the serious cattle pest screw-worm fly, should they be found in Asustralia.

Being a biological control method, the Sterile Insect Technique is an exellent …


Farm Debt In The Wheatbelt : 1984 Survey Results, R S. Kingwell Jan 1985

Farm Debt In The Wheatbelt : 1984 Survey Results, R S. Kingwell

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

In recent years many farms in Western Australia's wheat-growing areas have experienced adverse seasons. For example, the 1983-84 season was characterised by a late start, dry spring and wet harvest which resulted in many farms suffering a combination of low yields and the downgrading or dockage of their grain.

Poor seasons and poor profitability prospects for wheat-growing caused some concern about farm indebtedness in these areas.

In late 1983, a Parlimentary select committee was appointed to inquire into rural hardship. The State Minister for Agriculture also announced that the Department of Agriculture would conduct a farm survey to determine the …


Louisiana Agriculture Magazine, Winter 1985-1986, Lsu Agricultural Experiment Station Jan 1985

Louisiana Agriculture Magazine, Winter 1985-1986, Lsu Agricultural Experiment Station

Louisiana Agriculture

No abstract provided.