Tim Fritz Makes Seed Drill Calibration a Part of Farmer Education at Winter Meetings
The King’s Agriseeds team continued across Pennsylvania, presenting to a crowd of farmers in Reedsville, PA on Thursday 1/23/14. King’s speakers sought to cover concepts that were useful to the audience, instead of simply promoting products. Pictured here, Tim Fritz, company owner, speaks to the crowd about the importance of calibrating their drills before planting.…
Choosing the Right Annual Grain Forage
By Tracy Neff, King’s Agronomist Introduction When it comes to spring planted annual forages, many farmers consider planting small grains like oats, spring triticale or spring barley. These are often planted as forage, cover crop or a nurse crop for establishing with alfalfa. The resulting forage, with proper fertilization, can be of high quality in…
Summer Annual Options: High Energy Livestock Feed
By Joshua Baker, King’s Marketing Manager When analyzing any summer annual, you need to take a critical look at both your crop rotation as well as your overall management style. Considering the maturity of the crops, as well as your ability to harvest and store them appropriately will help you better understand your expected value…
Notes from the Field: Small Grain Observations
Several contrasts are becoming more apparent in our Farming Systems plots as spring progresses. With more growth, differences among treatments are accentuated. Many small grains that were planted in the fall in this trial had both an early and late planting, with the early fall planting thriving better across the board than the late fall…
Cover Crops – For More than Winter
What can cover crops do for you? Cover crops are most commonly thought of as a way to protect and rejuvenate soils during winter, providing a buffer against the elements during long harsh months. A cover crop during the summer is equally important – but soil coverage is often less a consideration than nutrient cycling,…
Why Care About Sugars?
By Chad Hale, Forage Grass Specialist “All things in moderation” is a mantra that applies to many things in life. Most of us like sugar but we probably shouldn’t let it be the majority of our diet. Ruminants are no different. They like sugar too and dairy nutritionists have a rule of thumb that sugar…
Winter Annual Highlights
The selections below are not reflective of the entire line-up. These are products/concepts that we feel should be highlighted for the 2014 winter annual forage season. “It (Triticale 815) gets repeat sales and higher yields, close to 4 tons of dry matter. That’s good for something that grows over the winter. The combination of yield…
Penn State Short Lived Trials
The trial below shows TriCal 815 at a clear advantage nutritionally. It continues to be the superior forage variety in Kings research as well, topping the nutritional charts in our trials for multiple years in a row. Speak to an expert at King’s AgriSeeds now at 1-717-687-6224 or email us at [email protected].
The Ryegrass Difference: A Farmer’s Success
“I grew a Green Spirit Italian Ryegrass cover crop and planted corn behind the ryegrass in different fields. One field had no ryegrass, one field had ryegrass for one winter, and one field had ryegrass for two winters in a row. I planted the ryegrass in the fall and chopped it and burned it down…
Farm Feature: Greyrock Farms and Dairy
Farm: Greyrock Farms & Dairy Owner: James Anderson Location: Moore, South Carolina Crop: AS 6402 Sorghum Sudan Through our dealer in Asheville, NC (AgCare Products) we have been working with James Anderson for the past few years providing sorghums and other products to help increase the drought tolerance of his…
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