Year: 2021

TRICHODERMA BIOLOGICALS – HIGHER YIELDS BEYOND GENETICS By Joe Schmidlen, Regional Sales Manager, Agrauxine – North America I have been blessed to have worked in agriculture sales management since 1996. I have worked in row crop seed sales management as well as in the forage seed industry. Working with numerous accounts across the U.S. and…

Beyond Cereal Rye: Forecrops Set Up Hemp for Success By: Sarah Mitchell, Industrial Hemp Specialist Cereal Rye is the “go to” cover crop. Farmers and agronomists agree, it’s a workhorse. Cereal rye starts quick and grows well. It anchors the soil, builds microbes and organic matter, facilitates nutrient availability, plus suppresses weeds in spring. However,…

Winter forages: What are my options? By: David Hunsberger of King’s AgriSeeds for Progressive Dairy At A Glance: Determining a winter forage requires taking a look at species, timing, risk aversion and fertility considerations. Growing winter forages, a great way to increase available inventory, maximizes the productivity of your land base. Fully one-third of sunlight…

Preceding Crops Could Set Up Tobacco for Success By: Philip Gruber, News Editor Lancaster Farming August 21, 2021 Tim Fritz, owner of King’s AgriSeeds, speaks about experiments with crop mixes to be planted before tobacco. Photo by Philip Gruber. CHRISTIANA, Pa. — If Tim Fritz’s experiments are any indication, the next step in cover crop…

Rod Porter, Northern Region Coordinator, Trumansburg, NY As fall approaches, here are some points to consider as you make your final harvests for the year. Hay: Try to time your final cutting to be 3 weeks before the killing frost or wait until after killing frost has come. To maintain a strong stand be sure to…

By David Hunsberger Cover crops are being utilized on more acres here in the Northeast USA each and every year. Usage is split into two main categories, winter forage production for ruminant animals and for soil cover and improvement. Both these forks in the winter crop roadmap find the same species useful – often the…

Evaluating thin alfalfa stands can lead to critical decisions about summer annual forages. If your stand is  not thick enough (approximately 40 stems per square ft according to Dr. Marvin Hall, Penn State University), consider interseeding a summer annual such as sorghum sudan or sudangrass, or rotating to Masters Choice corn for silage. Success for Summer Annual …

Frost-seeding is one method to achieve overseeding. This is a great way to add legumes to thicken or repair an existing pasture or hay field during the winter months. If timed and managed properly, frost-seeding has great odds of success. Clover contributes to higher yields of grasses by fixing nitrogen at a lower cost than…

Published in No-till Farmer By Martha Mintz first posted on January 9, 2015 | Posted in No-Till 101 Jim Harbach and Schrack Farms Partnership is using a diverse no-till, cover-crop system to build up organic-matter levels in rocky limestone soils. Our farm perplexed our crop advisor, Gerard Troisi. He consults with many farms in our area…

You may look at most small grains – oats, rye, wheat, triticale, barley, spelt – and think of either grain or forage. As it happens, small grains also make excellent cover crops. They are easy and economical to establish and grow, great at building soil, and helpful for uptaking excess nutrients. Get them in the…