Month: June 2016

By Jonathan Rupert, Smith Seeds Original Article Published by OnPasture I have tremendous respect and appreciation for our universities, extension, NCRC, and other public servants. Many of these folks work tirelessly to help farmers. They also collaborate with industry with determining product adaptation, use, rates and the like. Working in the seed industry for over…

  Northern Corn Leaf Blight on Corn When you have a stand failure, many things may be to blame, including human error, mechanical error, seed problems and poor weather conditions. While helping our customers diagnose poor stands this spring, we developed a checklist that can be used in future planting seasons to help you understand…

David Hunsberger, Central Region Coordinator With unusual weather this spring, we had more replant requests than normal, and learned some valuable lessons that can be applied next planting season and beyond. The Mid-Atlantic region saw a very early warm up this spring, and it quickly turned cool and dry, but conditions became quite wet right before…

Original article published by Hay and Forage Grower, June 21, 2016 Perhaps nothing in the forage production cycle is more aggravating, disheartening, disappointing, or sometimes frightening than a new forage seeding that just never develops. At worst, it means an entire establishment year lost, not to mention the time and investment in inputs such as…

Ray’s Crazy Fall Mix in North Carolina, one of our newer and more popular mixes where diversity performs When you make a mix or interseed one crop in another for a “relay effect”, you’re looking for the most bang for your diversity buck. Taking care to mix a few carefully selected species that are well…

Farmer Jim Biddle cooperated with Penn State Extension and King’s AgriSeeds Inc. Various cover crop mixes interseeded into MCT 5375 corn, June 18, 2015 Mill Hill Farm is a no-till dairy farm in Williamsburg, Blair County, PA. Jim Biddle is the owner and also a Certified Crop Advisor, in addition to running the on-site business, Mill…

Summer Cover Crop/Grazing Mixtures Summer Feast– A simple but effective mix of hybrid pearl millet and brassica. High yielding forage and deep tap root! Ray’s Crazy Mix– A 7-way mixture of summer annual legumes, brassicas and grasses. Equal parts forage and cover crop, this mixture is a great way to grow soil organic matter, improve tilth and…

By Kevin J. Shinners Original article published by Hay and Forage Grower, September 23, 2015 Dairy producers have to keep a sharp pencil to ensure the milk check covers all their costs, but there is one factor that probably never shows up on the balance sheet that can help keep the farm in the black: soil…

Exceed BMR Millet Exceed BMR Millet continues to be a standout summer annual crop. High disease resistance, increased palatability, high yields and great regrowth combine to make it a top choice in the hybrid pearl millet category. Agronomic Traits Dwarfing gene increases leaf to stem ratios, improves standability, and adapts to heavier grazing pressure Excellent disease…

Consult Page 53 of our Product Information Guide for management info on Sudangrass, Sorghum Sudan and Forage Sorghum! BMR Gene 6 is the most pronounced of the BMR Genes. For your cows, this means higher digestibility, higher energy, higher intake and higher production versus Non BMR and BMR 12. BMR Gene 6 Highlights Forage Sorghum –…