Winter Meeting Schedule
Join us to learn more about your options for planting forages this year! Here is our final winter meeting schedule. Call to RSVP or with any questions, 717-687-6224, at least 7 days prior to the meeting January 16 Meadville, PA at the Meadville Days Inn January 17 Shartlesville, PA at the Blue Mountain Family Restaurant…
The Forage Specialists
Our goal is to help you develop forage and cropping systems that are balanced and profitable. We have a strong dealer network serving farms from Virginia to Maine. Our dealer network is supported by several agronomists and livestock professionals. Our core strength is in forage systems and cover crops. In addition, we also carry KingFisher and Red…
Annual Ryegrass – Lowboy
Key Features
- Low-growing turf-type annual ryegrass for cover crop use
- Aggressive root system builds soil and scavenges nutrients, without accumulating a high vol-ume of cumbersome top-growth
- Spreading tendencies through aggressive tillering keep growth focused on soil coverage, rather than upward growth.
- Terminates with ease
- Improved cold tolerance
Establishment
- Seeding Rate: 15-20lbs/Acre
- Seeding Depth: 1/4”
- Seeding Dates: Late summer to early fall.
Corn
Corn KingFisher & Red Tail Corn Hybrids KingFisher & the traited Red Tail Corn Hybrids are focused on forage and grain-feeding types of corn hybrids. We focus on hyrids that excell in the characteristics that make better forage and feed (silage and grain.) To help you, the farmer/livestock producer, choose the hybrids that best fit…
Seed Treatment And Coating Information
Seed Treatment And Coating Information Our treated seed comes with a variety of treatments and coatings that may include biological inoculants, fungicides, insecticides, herbicide antidotes, and physical aids to the seed, such as water absorption and retention. The following is a guide to some of our most widely used seed treatment and coating products. For complete seed…
Is Tall Fescue Still Bad for Horses?
Is Tall Fescue Still Bad for Horses? By: Joy Beam Yoder, King’s AgriSeeds …
When should you take out your alfalfa stand?
When weighing your options about when to rotate out of an alfalfa stand, the best advice is usually to quit while you’re ahead. Stand decline in alfalfa is inevitable; the tricky part will be discerning the point in the stand’s aging when you reach your threshold of profitability (ideally you’d rotate out before reaching this…
Pasture Pruning: Preventing Problems, Pursuing excellence
By David Hunsberger, Central Regional Coordinator What is pasture pruning? Isn’t that just another way to say clipping? No, according to Cliff Hawbaker, an innovative grazer near Chamberburg PA, the two should not be confused. Hawbaker has been on the leading edge of many practices to improve dairy margins over the years. We took the…
Inavale Orchardgrass
Key Features
- Medium Late Maturity
- Summer Heat Tolerance
- Quick to Establish
- High Yielding
- Exceptional Palatability and Digestibility.
Establishment
- Use the Large Box of the Drill
- Seeding Rate: 22-25lbs per Acre Broadcast
- Seeding Rate: 40lbs per Acre
- Seeding with Alfalfa: 3-7lbs per Acre
- Seeding Depth: Surface to 1/4”
Olathe Orchardgrass
Key Features
- Persistent
- Quick to establish
- High yielding
- Exceptional palatability and digestibility
- Outstanding disease resistance
- Heat and drought tolerant
Establishment
- Use the large box of the drill
- Seeding rate: 20 lbs/acre
- Seeding with alfalfa: 3-7lbs/acre
- Seeding Depth: Surface to 1/4”
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