Blair County, PA Workshop: Learn to Make Cover Crops Work in Your System
You’re invited to a comprehensive 2-day field day to learn about how and why to make cover crops work for you. At this two-day workshop, which includes an evening field walk followed by an all-day series of expert speakers and discussion, Extension and NRCS agents and seed reps explain how cover crops complete the farm…
Apply to Become a King’s Dealer
Do you have a passion for farming, livestock, and a high-forage animal diet consisting of mostly homegrown forages? Are you a motivated salesperson? Do you enjoy spending time with your customers and educating them about your products? Then we want you on our team! Become a King’s Dealer today! At the core of our sales philosophy…
Farming through Adversity
David Hunsberger, Central Region Coordinator Habakkuk 3:17-18 Still I will praise Him… This verse may not translate to your situation directly – not many of us have large vineyards and olive orchards, but with all our commodity values down across the spectrum, I think it’s good to step back and gain some perspective. In this…
Fall planting for a successful spring: Preparing soil quality and providing forage
Late summer is often the time to begin thinking about early spring. What will you plant and how will you get your soil in the kind of condition it In spring, roots from overwintering hairy vetch and crimson clover have built soil structure and fertility for the summer crop should be in for that spring…
Tips for Preventing Pasture Bloat
Penn State Extension Pasture bloat is primarily a problem of cattle that graze pastures where legumes make up greater than 50% of the total forage. You may hear pasture bloat referred to as “frothy” bloat due to the large amount of froth or foam produced in the rumen, which the animal has difficulty eructating. Legumes…
Looking for high protein in your summer mix? Consider brassicas
A common question at summer annual planting time is which legume is best to add some protein to summer annual grasses? These grasses include millet, sorghum sudans, sudangrasses, and MasterGraze 60-day tillering corn (used for grazing and taking up the same growing window as many sorghum products). There are few options for the legume companion,…
Checklist: What Went Wrong With My Stand?
Northern Corn Leaf Blight on Corn When you have a stand failure, many things may be to blame, including human error, mechanical error, seed problems and poor weather conditions. While helping our customers diagnose poor stands this spring, we developed a checklist that can be used in future planting seasons to help you understand…
Managing for “The Perfect Storm” of Winters
By Paige Smart, Southeast AgriSeeds There is little doubt that this winter will be a challenge to cattle producers throughout the southeastern states. The limited fall growth due to either extreme drought or extreme flooding has limited the ability to stockpile forage for the winter and has left many feeding hay already. These unfortunate…
Grain Sorghum: a Viable Alternative Crop
By Dale Stoltzfus and David Hunsberger, Kings AgriSeeds Inc. Are you tired of the traditional and sometimes limited income stream potential of your corn, soybeans, and wheat grain rotation? Are you motivated to improve your probability of a successful whole farm crop yield even in a dry year? Grain Sorghum may be the alternative crop…
Seeing Soil Health
King’s AgriSeeds Inc. recently cohosted a soil health field day at Eli Weaver’s Meadow View farm. He’s one of our local dealers, based in Leola, Lancaster County, PA, and devotes several acres to product research. The day was a perfect integrated training opportunity, because it featured Ray Archuleta of the USDA-NRCS speaking on the importance…
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