• Email List Signup
  • Catalog
1-717-687-6224
[email protected]
  • Find Products
    • Perennial Forages
      • Grasses
      • Alfalfa and Clover
      • Perennial Mixtures
      • Perennial Forbs
    • Cover Crops
    • Cool Season Annuals
    • Summer Annuals
      • Forage Sorghum, Sorghum Sudan, and Sudangrass
      • Grain Sorghum
      • Mixtures, Teff, Millet, Brassicas
      • Sunflowers, Sunn Hemp, Buckwheat & More
      • Soybeans
    • Corn
    • Organic Seed – Forage, Cover Crop, and Grain
    • Industrial Hemp
    • Wildlife Food Plots
    • Turf Type Products
    • Forage Inoculant Products
    • Biologicals & Seed Stimulants
    • Seed Treatment And Coating Information
    • John Deere Financial
  • Find Your Dealer
  • Resources
    • King’s Agriseed Blog
    • Farm Planning Tools and Calculators
    • Forage Technical Reference Encyclopedia
    • Season Product Guides / Newsletters
    • Organic Certification
    • Product Literature
    • Recommended Reading & Presentations
    • Steps to Success
    • Supported Organizations
    • Winter Meeting Video Recordings
  • Dealer Portal
  • About Us
    • Contact Us
    • Who We Are
    • Become a Dealer
    • Press Room
  • Staff Directory
We moved! We are now located at 1828 Freedom Rd, Suite 101, Lancaster PA. We look forward to continuing to serve you!

Evaluate and Plan for Success

11 years ago

By Josh Baker

“As an organic dairy farmer, I have appreciated King’s AgriSeeds’ commitment to excellence in selecting, testing, and providing some of the best seed varieties today, along with much helpful agriculture information.”

-Loyal Martin, Producer in Philadelphia, NY

 

Eric Young (Agronomist at Miner Institute) snapped this photo of his son standing in a nice field of Masters Choice corn at the Miner. Miner Institute will evaluate the Masters Choice floury corn as they feed it to their herd later this fall/winter.
Eric Young (Agronomist at Miner Institute) snapped this photo of his son standing in a nice field of corn at the Miner. Miner Institute will evaluate the floury corn as they feed it to their herd later this fall/winter.

While our current focus is on preparation for the fall, we also should take time to evaluate the our summer crops. NOW is the best time to complete full evaluations and reviews of your current summer crops so that you can begin to think about planning for next year. Keeping an accurate log book of successes and failures of crops will help make your 2015 purchasing decisions much easier. Call your King’s dealer or King’s representative and have them walk fields with you to determine what caused any crop damage and whether or not it can be prevented next year.

For the past few weeks, we have been busy answering calls about issues including stand failures, bug damage, herbicide carryover damage, and many more. The important thing is that we get out in the fields with the producers and talk about what to do with the current crop as well as what to do in the future as preventative measures. In traveling, I have seen that this year rain was extremely spotty and crops in some areas suffered from this while others thrived.

What we can’t do is control the rain. What we can do is diversify our cropping system so that we have an insurance policy. A balanced system of perennials and annuals is consistently the best approach to producing balanced sustainable yields. Forage sorghum is a crop that has emerged as a drought resistant summer annual that thrives in conditions where corn struggles. This, among other considerations may mean the difference in a few tons of overall productivity per acre.

Don’t forget to take notes on the good fields. It does us no good to focus only on the bad, but instead mix in both the successes and failures, write down a synopsis and review when you are making your purchases for 2015.

Scout and take notes on:

Weed pressure
Weed pressure
Reduced stand
Reduced stand
Weed pressure
Weed pressure
Pest pressure
Pest pressure
This field was evaluated in mid July after a few weeks of drought resulted in reduced germination. The recommendation from King’s agronomist was to interplant forage sorghum into week areas to improve the stand.
This field was evaluated in mid July after a few weeks of drought resulted in reduced germination. The recommendation from King’s agronomist was to interplant forage sorghum into week areas to improve the stand.

 

Previous Post
Farm Feature: Greyrock Farms and Dairy
Next Post
Corn Update in New York State: Delayed Planting Dates and Corn Maturity in 2014

Related Posts

No results found.

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Fill out this field
Fill out this field
Please enter a valid email address.

Recent Posts

  • Why Treated Seeds Might Increase Slug Damage and Harm Beneficials
  • King’s AgriSeeds Host Meetings in Four States
  • Phytonutrient Advantage: Building Better Beef
  • Spring Drought Forage Recommendations
  • The Power of Clover in Beef Pastures

Recent Comments

  • Taylor on Regulating the Sugar Intake of Horses on Pasture
  • Paul Diffee on A Pasture Pick-Me-Up for Summer
  • Jennifer Kress on Regulating the Sugar Intake of Horses on Pasture
  • Joe stuckel on Forage Sorghum: Boot Stage Harvest
  • Joe on Horses: A List of Concerns

Blogroll

  • Beef Producer Blog
  • Bill’s Forage Files
  • Dairy Grazing
  • Grass-Based Health
  • Hougar Farms Blog
  • On Pasture
  • Progressive Cattleman
  • Progressive Dairy

Archives

KING’S AGRISEEDS

1828 Freedom Rd, Suite 101
Lancaster, PA 17601
T: (717) 687-6224
F: (717) 824-3731
[email protected]

We offer a vast product line of improved varieties and hybrids.

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.

Facebook
X
YouTube

Privacy Policy

© King's Agriseeds

 

You are now browsing King’s AgriSeeds. Back to SoutheastAgriSeeds.com

 

×