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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Oct 19,1974
New Alfalfa
Variety Released
A new, pest-resistant of the Middle Atlantic states,
variety of alfalfa named Arc the Southeast, and southern
has been released this fall by portions of the Midwest. In
the U.S. Department of these areas, anthracnose
Agriculture and agricultural reduces annual yields on
experiment stations in about four million acres of
Maryland, North Carolina, alfalfa.
Virginia and Pennsylvania. Arc also posses moderate
Arc could increase the
value of the nation’s No. 1
forage crop by more than
$2OO million annually, ac
cording to scientists of
USDA's Agricultural
Research Service (ARS) at
Beltsville and agronomists
at the University of
Maryland in College Park.
In several Maryland test
locations, Arc, with good
management practices,
yielded one to two tons of hay
more per acre than other
varieties of alfalfa, ac
cording to Dr. Neri A. Clark,
Extension forage crops
specialist at the College
Park campus.
Similar results have been
obtained in North Carolina,
Pennsylvania and Virginia.
The chief Maryland test
locations for the new alfalfa
variety have been the
university’s agronomy-dairy
forage research farm on
Folly Quarter road in the
Ellicott City-Clarksville area
of central Maryland
(Howard county) and at the
Wye Institute on the Eastern
Shore (southern Queen
Annes county).
Outstanding resistance to
antbracnose, a fungus
disease, is the main ad
vantage of Arc over other
varieties- For this reason.
Arc is well adapted to most
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resistance to bacterial wilt
disease and to the alfalfa
weevil. In addition, it is
highly resistant to the pea
aphid.
The vigorous growth habit
and disease resistance of Arc
protects the crop against
encroachment from weeds.
Tests show that weeds took
over 50 percent of the plot
areas seeded to seven
commonly grown varieties,
but only 15 percent of the plot
areas seeded to Arc.
An additional advantage of
Arc is stand persistence,
owing to its combined
resistance to anthracnose
and bacterial wilt. These
diseases eliminated stands
of Williamsburg, Glacier,
Cherokee and Team alfalfa
in field tests. Arc yielded
three additional years of
good forage after the loss of
the other varieties.
Seed of Arc has been
released to commercial
seedsmen. The Agricultural
Research Service has no
seed available for in
dividuals.
Additional information on
the new alfalfa variety will
be available in a for
thcoming issue of
Agricultural Research, ARS
magazine published monthly
by the U.S. Department of
Agriculture.
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