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Blueberry Advisory Committee Research Report, H Y. Forsythe Jr, John M. Smagula, David E. Yarborough, Antonia L. Hoelper, C W. Murdoch, Edward J. Mclaughlin, Jeff Risser, Tom Degomez, Mike Goltz, Tom Cs Yang, Angela Yang, Carolyn Wills, M F. Trevett

Wild Blueberry Research Reports

The 1985 edition of the Blueberry Progress Reports was prepared for the Maine Blueberry Commission and the University of Maine Blueberry Advisory Committee by researchers with the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station and Maine Cooperative Extension Service at the University of Maine, Orono. Projects in this report include:

1. Control of secondary blueberry pest insects

2. Effect of pruning practices on blueberry insect abundance

3. Effect of hexazinone on species distribution in lowbush blueberry fields

4. Dichlobenil for control of bunchberry

5. Evaluation of postemergence herbicides for grass control

6. Hand-wiper applications of herbicides on woody weeds

7. Evaluation of steam …

Lupin Processing : A New Development, R S. Coffey

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

For a number of years Grain Pool marketing representatives have approachd stockfeed manufacturers around the world in an attempt to broaden the market for Western Australian lupin seed.

Wherever there was enough consumer interest to conduct a nutritional evaluation of the product, lupins were found to be non competitive for inclusion in both pig and poultry rations, while at the same price being acceptable as a cattle feed ingredient. The reason for this disparity proved to be the varying degrees of fibre digestability of lupins for the various livestock tested.

It became apparent that the fibrous lupin seed coat or …