Conducting Your Own On-Farm Trials – DO Try This At Home
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…
More Questions than Answers
AF 7201 Forage Sorghum at Boot Stage As we get into the thick of summer annual season, we are bombarded with product options. Within the Southeast AgriSeeds/King’s AgriSeeds inventory alone there are dozens of summer annual options and combinations of options to plant. Combine this with products offered by other organizations and the number becomes…
Monitoring First Cutting Harvest Timing
By Joe Lawrence, Cornell University First cutting can represent a significant portion of your total hay crop for the year and has the potential to be very high quality feed if harvested at the correct timing. To help you monitor that timing there are tools available. Monitoring Programs Several Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) teams statewide…
Forage and Cover Crop Seed
High Energy Forages Soil Building Cover Crops Industrial Hemp We service the Middle Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States by providing a full line of forage seed, livestock focused corn hybrids and cover crop seed. Shop Products Forages We have been focusing on high quality forages since 1993. We specialize in perennial and annual…
Hay Exchange Websites for the Southeast
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TUESDAY, NOV. 1, 2016 CONTACT: Jen Kendrick, public information officer NCDA&CS 919-707-3005 Flooding, drought causes concern about winter hay supply; website launched to connect buyers and sellers RALEIGH – Flooding in eastern North Carolina and drought in western counties has state agricultural officials concerned about feeding livestock and horses this winter.The North…
CBD HEMP – Is this crop for you?
By Sarah Mitchell, King’s AgriSeeds Industrial Hemp Specialist At King’s we bring crops to market that promote family farming and help maintain healthy crop rotations for our precious soil resources. CBD Hemp is one of the most promising crops we’ve seen in decades. If it feels like CBD Hemp has dropped from the sky and…
Chemical-free No-till: A realistic goal?
First appeared in Progressive Forage Grower, July 15, 2017 Many people envision their farm becoming a chemical free or reduced chemical no-till system, but can’t quite figure out what that looks like, including weed suppression, controlling the previous crop, and getting all the inputs in the field. Spoiler alert – there is no easy answer…
Forage Technical Reference Encyclopedia
Here you will find an alphabetized database of all our go-to reference materials on most forage related subjects. Find the answers to your technical questions here, by crop or management topic. We have gathered the best resources on each crop and subject for your reference, including both our own articles and those of university extension services.…
Industrial Hemp – CBD
CBD Hemp King’s AgriSeeds is your source for premium forage, cover crop and industrial hemp seed. King’s partners with industry leaders to bring high quality products to the farmer, with information and education to bring success, assisting with cropping plans and building soil health. CBD Hemp Varieties AutoCBD Read more Early Abacus Read more Frosted…
Notes from the field: What 2013 Revealed About Corn
Some field observations from the research team working in our Lancaster County plots, sampling and collecting data on almost all the King’s corn hybrids we sell, including several experimental hybrids that have not yet been released commercially. Corn can perform quite differently each year, depending on the weather conditions, the relative maturity, and the planting…
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