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…
Farming through Adversity
David Hunsberger, Central Region Coordinator Habakkuk 3:17-18 Still I will praise Him… This verse may not translate to your situation directly – not many of us have large vineyards and olive orchards, but with all our commodity values down across the spectrum, I think it’s good to step back and gain some perspective. In this…
Understanding Corn Test Weight
By Mike Rankin Crops and Soils Agent UW Extension-Fond du Lac Co. Corn test weight (TW) is an often discussed topic of conversation among corn growers. The topic moves to the forefront in years when corn has been stressed at some point during the grain filling period or when the growing season is ended by…
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…
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…
Forage Systems
Forage Quality, Testing, Species, Varieties & Harvest SARE Fact Sheet: Alternative Continuous-Cover Dairy Forage System for Profitability,Flexibility and Soil Health Click to Download 2014 USDA-ARS and Penn State Extension High Density Stocking Study Click to Download In the past, Kings Agriseeds has conducted in-vitro sampling on our forage line. We have learned a lot more…
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.…
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…
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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