. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. ranberries required . inch water er week or what is equivalent to -8 hours per week sprinkling, applied ccording to weather conditions, hortage of irrigation affected the evelopment of late set berries, pro- uced small size berries and enhanced ndesired early dormancy. On the other hand, it should be >membered that in the 70's ranberry growers lost the use of DDT, Idrin, dieldrin, silvex and 2,4,5-T. Hopefully, effective and safer esticides are in the offing. To mention few: furadan, glyphosate, terbacil, jvrinol and 2,4-D
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. ranberries required . inch water er week or what is equivalent to -8 hours per week sprinkling, applied ccording to weather conditions, hortage of irrigation affected the evelopment of late set berries, pro- uced small size berries and enhanced ndesired early dormancy. On the other hand, it should be >membered that in the 70's ranberry growers lost the use of DDT, Idrin, dieldrin, silvex and 2,4,5-T. Hopefully, effective and safer esticides are in the offing. To mention few: furadan, glyphosate, terbacil, jvrinol and 2,4-D amine. THE THEME in the 1980's will J "Super ; The aim: to produce per keeping quality and an abundance ' cranberries to meet the increasing ;mand. The emphasis will be on the allowing projects: 1) Reaching optimum commercial ranberry production in a shorter priod, 3-4 years instead of 8-10 â pars, following planting. 2) Improving keeping quahty and ')lor. 3) Screening new herbicides for le control of resistant weeds. 4) Determining timing and imber of fungicide apphcations cording to peak fungus sporulation. 5) The feasibility of the use of leremone traps for controlling the ack headed fireworm. 6) Screening new insecticides for le control of black vine weevil and le cranberry girdler. IS. EXPORTS TO JAPAN OPS BILLION DOLLARS By BEVERLY HORSLEY Lssoc. Ed,, Foreign Agriculture Whatever the success i trade negotiations, changing .panese eating habits, or merely iirketplace realities-one thing is (!ar: agriculture continues to Ive a bright future in the Japanese iirket. At the turn of the decade the 1st billion dollar buyer of i:m products, Japan by calendar :78 had more than quadrupled that lel-and boosted taking 14 percent iove those in 1977-to become a !.4 billion market. It headed Iward $ billion in calendar 1979, nh gainers ranging from soybeans, high quality beef, to 'ioduced NEWLY promoted to the post of assistant pr
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