General Updates

Progressive Forage Grower just published a great piece on smart seed selection. When selecting your seed for this year, don’t roll the dice, they advise. Seed is an investment that has to be made wisely, and you want to be sure that not only are you buying the highest quality seed, but also investing in…

The King’s Agriseeds Team hit the road early Monday morning to travel to New Enterprise in Cumberland County to start the first of their two week long series of educational forage meetings. South Central PA “Ridge and Valley” topography. They met at the old Replogle School community center in New Enterprise, PA for the first…

If you are thinking about thickening your pasture or hayfield, winter may be the perfect time and lends itself to two opportunities – dormant seeding and frost seeding. Both allow you to get the seed in the ground in time for the first of the spring weather and the very start of the growing season,…

by Betty Sanders www.BettyonGardening.com. Sitting in a warm room looking out at our landscape enduring the 9 degree afternoon (up from -17 degrees the night before) and listening to reports of -35 degree wind chill, I can’t help but think about what is happening to the plants. Because it was over 50 degrees a few…

  From left, Abby Kautz, King’s Customer Service Rep, in front of a strip of late-planted barley and ryegrass; Genevieve Slocum, King’s Assistant Marketing Manager, in front of a strip of early-planted barley and crimson clover. Barley is a high quality, high-yielding forage and grain crop, but it needs a little more time to get…

We came across this valuable resource for graziers, grazingguide.net, which describes itself as a public-private partnership and “multistate research coordinating committee and information exchange group”. It looks like a great organization to become a part of, a link to government programs and information, and potentially a valuable resource for us and many of our customers. “The…

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  Common chickweed (Purdue Extension) Henbit (Purdue Extension) Even if you didn’t intend to grow a nurse crop when you planted your winter small grain, you might find that you have, especially if you planted early. The neat rows of triticale, barley, oats, or wheat may be sheltering new growth of chickweed and henbit, winter…

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…

4 Way Cover Crop Mix – sunflower, buckwheat, cowpeas, sunn hemp This was one of the worst years in the history of US agriculture for honeybee declines. Depressing as that sounds, it was difficult to believe as I stepped out into a summer cover crop field in our Lancaster County research plots. Even a quick…