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2020 Summer Annual Product Guide Time to Make Your Summer Plans View our 2020 Spring & Summer Product Catalog 2020 Spring/Summer Product Catalog View our 2020 Spring & Summer Product Catalog 2020 Early Order Programs Guide How’s Your Vision? We can help you with a plan for 2020! View our 2020 Early Order Guide 2019…
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…
Guide to Mob Grazing for Cattle
Guide to Mob Grazing for Cattle In response to the steadily increasing demand for healthier, more humanely-raised livestock, an emerging and innovative trend gaining traction across the agricultural community is mob grazing. While the concept of maintaining larger herds of cattle in small areas may sound detrimental to pasture maintenance, mob grazing is proving to…
Winged Predators: Birds and Corn
Bird damage can turn into a widespread challenge in many cornfields. Just knowing what to expect and preparing your crop rotation ahead of time can be enormously helpful. Shredded husks and brown or blackened kernels are usually tell-tale signs of bird damage. Birds feast on the still-soft kernels during early grain filling period, and holes…
Crimson Clover Product Guide
Crimson Clover Product Guide By Dave Wilson, Agronomist Note: Plant Zone Hardiness Maps – I refer to Growing Zones or USDA Plant Hardiness Zones for late summer or fall planting dates for the cover crops. After speaking with many farmers throughout the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic I’ve come to realize that many don’t know what their…
Hay and Haylage Quick Guide
Hay and Haylage Quick Guide 2013 Thanks to Cargill for this quick hay checklist. 34-37% DM checks during the day When alfalfa in mixed 50/50 stands are 24 inches –cut your mixed stands When alfalfa near the grass field is 15 inches tall – start your pure grass stands When alfalfa is 30 inches tall…
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…
The Importance of Soil Health for a Profitable Farm
by Harold Schrock Soil aggregation and earthworm, both good soil health indicators There is a documented direct correlation between soil health, particulate organic matter concentrations and field/farm profitability as explained in a university level study recently completed by Claire LaCanne and Jon Lundgren. This study, “Regenerative agriculture: merging farming and natural resource conservation profitably”, is…
Martin II Protek
Key Features
- PLOIDY Hexaploid (6N)
- GROWTH HABIT: Perennial Bunch
- ESTAB. RATE: 10-14 days
- NITROGEN REQ.: High 80-100 lbs/ac
- ANEROBIC SOIL TOL.: Good
- pH RANGE: 4.7-8.5
- MINIMUM RAINFALL: >20 inches
- DRY MATTER YIELD: 4-6 tons
- REGROWTH: Excellent
- PRIMARY UTILIZATION: Grazing, hay & stockpile
- VEG REPRO TIL RATE: Moderate
- ENDOPHYTE: Novel
- SEEDING RATE: 15-25 lbs/ac pure stand
7 Combine Tweaks to Boost Speed
We had some questions this year about combine settings to minimize grain loss. Here are a few good tips that Dave Wilson came across. By: Dave Mowitz Adjusting a combine is like balancing a tire. True, running a combine is far more complicated than just adding a weight to ensure smooth tire rotation. Keeping a harvester…
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