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COLBY - Checks amounting Dave Petersen is . agricultural
to almost $9,000 were presented engineer.
to the Colby Experiment Station · Banbury explained that this
and the sugar . beet demonQ money helped to support work by stration farm Wednesday by Dr. Sunderman, . Lawless and Great Western Sugar Beet Co.
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Dave Petersen. He said Lawless Goodland and the Grest Western concentrated on the types of Growers Joint Research Com-. press used and how it affects .mittee. emergence. ~ ·
Evans Banbury, director
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the Petersen concentrated on-Kansas State University Ex- water use efficiency in periment Station, thanked the production of beets, and Dr. men who made the presentation, . Sunderman's study focused on
_ saying: "Their support has been _the application of fertilizers.
a great help to the station. We ·. Also on hand. for the third·
wouldn't have been able to do check were Leroy Evert of
some of the things we have done Goodland, who operated the without their fine help.ft .demonstrationfann;ElmerZerr,
Making
the presentations were , area extension irrigation ·W&!cfo. Petersen of: Goo<l!ami, engineer; and Les Reinhardt,
agriettltura! ma.ria:ger for the Colby area extension specialist.
Kemp District of Great Western .. · Banbury said this $1,340 check
, Sugar; and Russ- Davis of.' will assist KSU studies on
Burlington, director of the Great irrigation success on Evert's Western Growers Joint Research farm. ·
Com...'llittee. Evert's farm has been use<! in Davis explahted that his ·cooperation with the demon -. committee-was formed L-, 19S8 stration project for the past five
v.ill-r fow representatives of the years. He said he has 100 acres in Great Western and five growers, sugar beets, 65 acres in corn and one representing each of the five other acreage in wheal -states in which Great Western · Prairie Drummer.
, . contracts for sugar beets - · · ·
· Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska,·
Montana and Wycming. · ·
Its work, he said, is financed
by a peMy a ton deduction from the grower's income, which is ·
matched by Great Western. Davis' committee has the responsibility of reviewing the proposals submitted by the various state agricultural universities, and then allocates
funds based on those projects it
feels will do the most good. The first check was for $3,680. Davis and Petersen presented it to Banbury, who accepted on behalf of the Agronomy Department of KSU.
On hand for the presentation was Dr. Iierb Sunderman, assistant professor, soils. Banbury explained that Dr. Sunderman supervised the studies, which concentrated on
· "crusting" resulting from use of various kinds of fertilizers, for greater.-·emergence.
John Lawless and Dave Petersen were present for the
presentation oftbe second check.
Lawless is crops research
. scientist ~~ at the experlent station;
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