Lincoln Meeting On Lucerne

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31256, 31 December 1966, Page 8

Lincoln Meeting On Lucerne

’THE plant science departA meat at Lincoln College will be holding a symposium on lucerne from February 14 to 16.

Professor R. H. M. Langer, head of the department, said that the objective of the symposium would be to try to tell the lucerne story from beginning to end—its genetics and its breeding to its establishment and its reaction to light and temperature and how it grows and its management, its seed production, the effects of pests, diseases and weeds and finally its place in the farm programme and in New Zealand agriculture. Professor Langer said it was felt there was such a great deal of information about lucerne in New Zealand that the people with this

knowledge should be brought together and it is the intention to publish a book about the deliberations. As well as speakers from aU over the country, three speakers have also been invited from Australia. They are Miss V. E. Rogers, of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation’s Riverina laboratory at Deniliquin, Mr K M. Doull, formerly of Lincoln, who is now of the Waite Agricultural Research Institute at Adelaide, and Dr. G. J. Leach, of the same institute. Farmers have been invited to attend this meeting and any farmer interested should write to Professor Langer at Lincoln College for information.