Organic Seed – Forage, Cover Crop, and Grain
Organic Seed – Forage, Cover Crop, and Grain King’s AgriSeeds makes every effort to support our organic and sustainable customers with superior seed genetics, a full cover crop line, and technical agronomic expertise based on a wealth of experience specific to organic rotations. We want to give you these tools to help you build a…
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…
Help is out there: Tools to weather the downturn in the dairy economy
We all know the dairy economy is still in tough times. Growing and feeding high quality forages is certainly an important part of controlling costs. However, every farm has a different set of variables for choosing the product or program to build its profitability. Our hope is to help you find the best tools possible…
2013 Forage Analysis Winners
A big ‘Thanks’ to all Kings customers who submitted forage samples for the first ever PA Forage Analysis Competition. Kings had multiple top finishers and as well as winners in multiple categories. The Pennsylvania Dairy Summit Forage Analysis Competition is hosted by the Penn State Extension Dairy Team, Professional Dairy Managers of Pennsylvania, Dairy Business…
Monitoring First Cutting Harvest Timing
By Joe Lawrence, Cornell University First cutting can represent a significant portion of your total hay crop for the year and has the potential to be very high quality feed if harvested at the correct timing. To help you monitor that timing there are tools available. Monitoring Programs Several Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) teams statewide…
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Alfalfa Features
“King’s puts the research behind their products and I could always trust that they would provide the best seeds available for my customers in my area.” -Terry Ingram Dairyman & Kings Dealer, Brandy Station, VA Kingfisher Enhancer II Enhancer has been a strong alfalfa for many years. It continues to show solid yields in…
Fiber Digestibility – Getting the Whole Picture
If the fiber digestibility portion of a forage analysis were a visual display, NDFd-30 hour (or 24, or 48) would be a photo snapshot, framing available details at a moment in time, while TTNDFD would be more like a slideshow or even a short video clip. TTNDFD adds another dimension to our understanding of how…
Corn and Soybean Herbicides and Rotation to Cover Crops
By Bill Curran and Dwight Lingenfelter, Penn State Extension With silage harvest well underway and corn grain and soybean not far behind, a number of farmers are considering cover crop establishment this fall. Remember that some herbicides can persist and potentially influence successful cover crop establishment. Both the 2015/16 Agronomy Guide (Table 1.10-6) and the…
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…
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