Four Wheat Hybrids Ready for Fall Pioneer Hi-Bred In ternational, Inc., today announced it will release four wheat hybrids for sale this fall, marking the company’s first sale of hybrid wheat seed. Dr. Charles Hayward, Edwin J. Mulder, director of Pioneer cereal president of Pioneer’s Cereal seed research, presented Seed Division, told financial data showing significant analysts that the company /• yield advantages for hybrid plans to produce more than wheat. The four hybrids 40,000 bushels of hybrid being released for planting wheat for 1975 planting. The this fall averaged 19.1 per hard red winter wheats cent or 6.1 bushels higher in being released this fall are yield than the average of 8 primarily adapted to Kan- check (comparison) sas, Oklahoma, and Texas, varieties. The checks, are all “These hybnds and others widely grown in the hard red we’re producing for 1975 winter wheat area. planting will, we believe, fulfill the expectations for hybrid wheat which have been talked about for more than 10 years,” Mulder said. Limited marketings of seed this fall at approximately $2O per bushel will help the company gauge farmer acceptance of hybrids and perfect its marketing plans. Pioneer breeds and produces,the largest selling brand of hybrid seed com, and is also a leading developer of genetically improved sorghum and soybean seeds, beef cattle and poultry. Its hybrid wheat breeding program is headquartered at Hut chinson, Kansas. In addition to having superior yielding ability, the hybrids also stand well. At the three test locations whe re conditions allowed measurement of stan dability, the four hybrids stood twice as well as the check varieties. Test weight (bushel weight) of the four new Pioneer releases compares favorably with the checks and they also have as good or better milling and - baking qualities, Hayward pointed out. "We are excited by the performance of these hybrids because they prove that hvbrid vigor does exist in wheat,” Hayward said. “We could have released some hybrids sooner, but we decided to wait until we developed improved male sterile and restorer lines. It now appears we made the right decision.” The seed industry star ted major research on hybrid wheat in 1961. In order to produce hybrids on a field scale, breeders had to develop male sterile and restorer lines of wheat. Male sterility causes only the female part of the plant to function. Thus, male sterile lines serve as the females for hybrid seed production; the male or restorer lines fer tilize the female. They also restore pollen-producing ability to the seed produced on the female. Some of the first hybrids /yielded less than varieties and had tall, weak straw and unsatisfactory milling and baking qualities, Hayward told analysts. This was probably due to the limited number of restorer and male sterile lines available, many of which lacked necessary performance factors. IM-PBUV-flll BENEFITS FROM IM-PRUV-ALL TREATED CORN SILAGE . 1 More Palatable 2 Less run off 3 More TDN 4 More digestable protein 5 For every dollar invested you get over 2 dollars return in less shrinkage losses 6 More Vitamin A 7 Longer Bunk life 8 Takes 2 or more pound of gram per cow per day less to balance a ration 9 Takes less protein to balance a ration 10 Cured silage in 3 to 5 days IM-PBUV-AIL SAVE FEED COSTS! Have your !m-Pruv-AII Dealer test your feed, balance your ration and SAVE YOU MONEY Test your ration and get a custom mineral to make up the deficiencies in YOUR feed. IM-PRUV-ALI SAVE FERTILIZER COSTS Your Im-Pruv-AII dealer will test .your soil. This test will show the amount of N-P-K, all trace elements and lime needed You may be applying more fertilizer than needed IM-PBUV-ALI Im-Pruv-AII is not a substjtute for good management It is a tool to help you manage more efficiently If you want bigger profits, call the Im-Pruv-AII Dealer in your area Southern Lancaster County Northern Lancaster County Chester County York County Dillsburg Area Shippensburg Area Adams County York Springs Area 528-4383 Perry & Juniata Counties / 717-567-6764 Union & Snyder Counties 717-524-5454 Lebanon County 717-866-6710 IM-PBUV-ALI The 1973-74 Pioneer tests which Hayward cited were made at 13 locations scat tered throughout the hard red winter wheat area. Either three or four replications (duplicate plantings) of each hybrid were made at each location. The Pioneer testing program is being further expanded this coming year, Hayward said, to provide even more performance data to add to the 1973 and 1974 figures. Thus, up to three years of data will stand behind hybrids offered in volume in the fall of 1975. Three hundred new hybrids will be tested in 1974-75, many involving promising new male restorer lines never before tested in hybrids. Two hundred hybrids were tested in 1974. Growers wanting the advantages of hybrid wheat must purchase seed for each crop from the breeder producer. If grain produced by a hybrid is planted the following year, yields will drop sharply due to the loss of hybrid vigor. The same holds true for hybrid corn and grain sorghum, which have completely replaced conventional open-pollinated varieties. 569-6042 733-4302 215-932-3307 252-3114 717-432-3376 717-532-9531 359-5891 Lancaster Farming. Saturday, August 24.1974 Marketplace Fair at E-Town Sept. 18 Elizabethtown Jaycees would like to invite all residents of Lancaster, Dauphin, York, & Lebanon to participate in the Market place Fair. The fair is being held in conjunction with the Annual Jaycee Festival on September 18-21. Competitions will be held in six divisions of the Penn sylvania State Farm Fair Premium Booklet, grains & vegetables, fruits, home & dairy products, floral exhibits, youth exhibits, domestic & fine arts. All judging will be done ac cording to the rules of the State Farm Fair Booklet. The judges for the com petitions will be from the Pennsylvania State Ex tension Office, Lancaster County and are Mrs. Doris Thomas of the Home Economy Department and Mr. Arme Lueck, Associate County Agent. All entries must be in no - later than 7:00 P.M. Wed New Breed Cattle Sale Set Oct. 15 There will be a “classic” oportunity for cattlemen who want to expand their herds with progeny of top Sim mental, Maine-Anjou, and Chianina bulls. The Midwest- New Breeds Classic Sale, jomtly sponsored by Mid west Breeders’ Cooperative and New Breeds Industries, will be held at the AK-SAR BEN Sale Pavilion, Omaha, Nebraska, on October 15,1974 at 1:00 p.m. Robert Fincham, Beef Director of Midwest Breeders’ Cooperative, and Ancel Armstrong, General Manger of New Breeds In dustries, in announcing the sale, pointed out that the primary objective of the • EASTERN MILK PRODUCERS PENNSYLVANIA'S LARGEST DAIRY COOPERATIVE SAium AG PROGRESS DAYS Eastern’s 8500 Dairy Farmer Members invite you to visit Eastern's Booth at the Industrial Exhibits Building _ r EASTERN MILK PRODUCERS -IJT THE SOLID DAIRY " CO-OP _r nesday, September 18. Entry forms will be accepted anytime prior. Entry forms can be obtained from any Elizabethtown Jaycee, Zarfoss Hardware, Lemar Jewelers, other area mer chants, or by calling Gary Myer at 717-367-2055, after 6:00 P.M. All entries, except perishables, will be held at the Fair on display until Saturday evening. There will be an auction Thursday night of the prize winning cakes, pies and pastries. All articles will be sold only with the permission of the exhibitor. Any proceeds from the sale of an article will go to the - exhibitor. All non-perishable items will be exhibited in the Main Tent until Saturday evening, at which time they may be picked up. There will be 24 hour protection for the exhibits throughout the entire festival. In addition the Elizabethtown Boro Police will provide regular patrols of the area. Midwest-New Breeds Classic Sale is to provide an op portunity for Midwest Breeders to make available outstanding cattle that can be purchased to establish new herds of these great cattle or to expand existing herds. Approximately 50 lots of each of the three breeds will be offered. These will consist primarily of half blood heifers. Also, some pens of 3 to 5 head will be offered. Sale catalogs are available, upon request, from the following address: Attention: Customer Ser vices, Box 959, Manhattan, Kansas 66502. 45
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