Harvesting Sunlight, Feeding No-Till Soils
Published in No-till Farmer By Martha Mintz first posted on January 9, 2015 | Posted in No-Till 101 Jim Harbach and Schrack Farms Partnership is using a diverse no-till, cover-crop system to build up organic-matter levels in rocky limestone soils. Our farm perplexed our crop advisor, Gerard Troisi. He consults with many farms in our area…
Sugar Cane Aphid Alert and Precautions for 2016
“Sugarcane aphids (SCA) have now been found in Lubbock and Hale counties in Texas. This is much farther north and earlier than what was observed in Texas in 2015. Although this is concerning, it does not give us any indication of how serious SCA may be this season for the South Plains and Panhandle of…
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…
Winter Maintenance of Farm Equipment
Dave Wilson, King’s AgriSeeds Research Agronomist At King’s Agriseeds we emphasize the proper time of planting; seeding rate and seeding depth. Proper seed to soil contact is paramount. Your planting equipment should be maintained and in proper order to have successful seeding applications for proper stands. Have you seen corn rows with ‘skips’ in the…
Late Fall Alfalfa and Pasture Q & A
Questions from readers of OnPasture.com; answers from Genevieve Slocum and David Hunsberger, King’s AgriSeeds My cows and calves have been on a pasture for about a week with approx. 50% grass 50% alfalfa it has dried down on the stem and we have had -2 degrees C frosts several times. Some of the stand is…
Winter forages: What are my options?
Winter forages: What are my options? By: David Hunsberger of King’s AgriSeeds for Progressive Dairy At A Glance: Determining a winter forage requires taking a look at species, timing, risk aversion and fertility considerations. Growing winter forages, a great way to increase available inventory, maximizes the productivity of your land base. Fully one-third of sunlight…
Rotation, diversity, multi-faceted defense needed to manage nematodes
SCN females on infected roots.Photo by Iowa State, https://www.plantpath.iastate.edu/scn/symptoms With many agronomic challenges, the gist of any thoughtful response is usually rotation, rotation, rotation. Change up your management strategy every year, so that the pest or weed doesn’t get habituated to whatever you’re doing. When it comes to nematodes – unsegmented, microscopic round worms that…
Which Alternative Forage Source is Right For You?
Tim Fritz, King’s AgriSeeds, Inc. Forage Agronomist and President Affordable high quality forages are one of the key factors for success on a dairy farm. Quality can be thought of in various ways. Energy from derived from Neutral Detergent Fiber (NDF) and Non-Structural Carbohydrate (NSC), protein and effective fiber are major talking points on forage…
When is Corn Alternative Forage?
“Corn” “Diversity” and even “innovative cropping systems” usually don’t go together in the same sentence, but when grazing corn varieties are stockpiled into a winter grazing system, it turns out they occasionally can. Grazing standing corn is certainly not a new practice, but many farmers may not be sure of its fit within their operation.…
Toxic Fescue? Start Fresh
BarOptima Plus E34 Tall Fescue, a soft-leaf fescue containing a beneficial endophyte Toxic-endophyte tall fescue (predominantly Kentucky-31) makes up over 90 percent of tall fescue acres in the US and costs the cattle industry over $1 billion every year in lost productivity. The losses caused by the toxic endophyte may not be immediately apparent without…
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