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…
Western New York Crop Alert 6-15-13: Water Water Everywhere & Emergency Forage Plantings
From Mike Stanyard, Cornell Cooperative Extension: Water, Water, Everywhere From 4 to 7 inches of water has fallen in most of WNY since June 6. This has resulted in ponded Flooded corn field and flooded fields that might result in some crop loss. How long can corn and soybeans survive under water? Answers vary but…
Manure and the No-till Winter Annual Cover Crop
When it comes to a manure application on your cover crop, be creative. There are more options than you think. Cover crop use often goes hand in hand with manure application. Crimson clover at full bloom, the stage at which we spread manure the first time around Manure nutrients can be captured quite well, preserved…
Cool Season Annuals
Cool Season Annuals Cool season annuals can be included into designed annual crop rotations, and increase overall productivity and profitability. Less herbicide and insecticide need can also be a benefit. The data’s in! See Penn State’s 2016-2017 Short Lived Trials Double crop and cover crop with your small grains – Most small grains also make great…
Reclaiming land: Successional Planting for Perennial Pasture Success
Reclaiming land to put into production is a multistep process. You have a valuable resource at your fingertips, but you have to be able to harness its potential and manage it to your advantage. If the land was forest or meadow for many years, it’s likely to be rich in organic matter and both above…
Harvesting BMR Forage Sorghum
Original article by Tom Kilcer, Advanced Ag Systems The season is quickly arriving at harvest time. Our BMR brachytic forage sorghum has done well in spite of the extremely dry weather. It was planted the 25 of May but stood still for a while until it got watered (June 3 planting was killed by chilling…
3 Growing Windows and How to Use Them
The cut off date for planting any crop is never etched in stone, but is more of an educated guess based on a collection of information. Planting date, like age, is not just a number but a state of mind. Every planting season, calendar date is just one guideline among many, and it’s important to…
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.…
Integrated Weed Management
Genevieve Slocum, King’s AgriSeeds Inc. Common chickweed Agronomists will tell you that weeds are never the problem, but only a symptom of underlying problems. Weeds invade when they have opportunities. Maintaining a thick, healthy stand that competes well with unwanted species is one of the best weed prevention tactics. The growth rate of a…
The ROSE Project: A Reduced-Tillage Toolbox
In support of the ROSE Project at Penn State University we are posting the latest edition of “The Rose Review” which is a periodic newsletter for the ROSE Project. The ROSE project stands for Reduced-Tillage Organic Systems Experiment; the research theme is “A Reduced-Tillage Toolbox: Alternative approaches for integrating cover crops and reduced tillage in an organic…
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