YIELD OF WHEAT CROPS

Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24742, 6 December 1945, Page 6

YIELD OF WHEAT CROPS

RESEARCH ON INCREASES SUPPORTED Support for the urgent development or research on methods to' improve wheat yields was expressed in a~motion passed unanimously by the Wheat Research Committee yesterday. The Wheat Research Institute's specialist committee was urged in the motion to consider details of the research methods so that a report on them could be made to the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. Mr R, McPherson said the specialist committee had considered that research into methods of increasing wheat yields was important. The research should be "apart from breeding research and along the lines of farm management.** Mr F R. Callagan said that the specialist committee had estimated that an original outlay of £SOOO and an annual expenditure of £3OOO would be required, for the research. The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research had decided not to support the whole scheme, but to make funds available for a modified scheme of research at Canterbury Agricultural Colf2S^.'«Ju oßt °1 th< L "search work so far had been done by the Fields Division of the Department of Agriculture. A farm .management survey for wheatgrowing: had been begun by the department in the autumn of this year, anaV so far- 40 farms of a total !f e ,f $ i? 6 ?„acres had been covered, EJift r P i ?• SmaMeld.. it was proposed the-difference- in vields of wheat crops in various crop'rotaf£ n ?i, : ffi n u the were known 2w^ e 1946 . harv est. it would be possible to.review the position. trill resolution expressing support tor the research was moved by Mr R g. Ireland and seconded by Dr. R