Seed quality check needed this year
DeKALB, 11. Germination and
vigor of some seed being offered to
farmers this spring is below
normal expectations. Here’s where
you must rely on your suppliers’
name and reputation for seed
quality. Such a supplier will
probably be utilizing a number of
different tests in order to be sure
that only good seed is sold. This
will include repeated standard
germination tests plus thorough
screening by some sort of a vigor
evaluation, such as a cold soil
germination test.
All the testing in the world
means little to the farmer unless
suppliers are willing to set up strict
internal standards and then stick
with them. Seedsmen who do this
are indicating a long-term com
mitment to customer satisfaction.
Seed produced under drought
stress is perfectly satisfactory for
planting if the seedsman kept the
interests of his customers foremost
in his thinking. Quality assurance
is important to most, but not all,
seed suppliers. Customers should
consider this in making their final
seed selections.
As a result of drought production
conditions, 1983 seed is generally
not quite as large and may average
slightly lower germinating than
usual because of nutrient supply
limitations to some kernels. For
these reasons, the quality control
exercised by your seed supplier is
more than ever.
Sizing of corn seed to attain
uniform plantabihty is a
mechanical operation. If strict
sizing standards were adhered to,
your supplier probably has a
higher proportion of seed m the
smaller sizes this year. There is no
reson to avoid these smaller seeds -
- in fact they are often good buys -
but you should plan to be especially
careful about planter repair,
maintenance, and adjustment.
Plant them right and they’ll
perform right.
Seed produced under stress
growing conditions has the same
genetic-based performance
potential as seed grown in an ideal
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Many farmers found too many ears of corn last year like the
one on the left due to drought stress. With a record area corn
crop planned for this year, a bumper crop of ears like those on
the right are being sought by dairy and livestock feeders.
environment. The yield per
formance potential of a plant
growing from one of these seeds is
as good as ever. That’s the con
sensus of DeKalb-Pfizer Genetics
research and seed operations
people quizzed recently regarding
what farmers should expect from
seed they’ll be planting this spring.
Heat and drought stress upsets
the normal uptake and in-plant
transport of nutrients, depriving
plants of the amounts required for
full vegetative growth and/or
Du Pont names Molz
WILMINGTON, Del. - Robert
J. Molz has been named assistant
director of research and
development for the Du Pont
Company’s Agricultural
Chemicals Department. In this
newly created position, Molz will
have general responsibility for
research administration and
operations and will report to Klaus
A. Saegebarth, research and
development director.
Molz joined Du Pont in 1969 as a
research biochemist in the Photo
Products Department. In 1972, he
was named technical services
kernel development. Depending on
when the stress occurs, plants
have some ability to respond by
altering their growth pattern. They
will abort kernels already forming,
limiting the remaining number to
be filled in an attempt to balance
nutrient need with supply. Late in
the season, com plants have been
shown to withdraw sugars from the
stalk to fill kernels - enabling
them to complete development of
most remaining kernels, but at the
expense of stalk strength.
supervisor, aca' division, and a
year later was promoted to
product manager for aca’ test
packs In 1975, he became quality
assurance manager in the Clinical
Systems Division. Prior to his most
recent move, he was manager of
research and development for
clinical and instrument systems in
the Biomedical Products
Department.
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Yule bull enters sampling
SHAWANO, Wi. - A Holstein
calf, acquired from Richard Yule,
Millville, is now available for
sampling from Midwest Breeders
Cooperative.
The newest offering from the
full-service cattle breeding
cooperative is 21H873 Yules-Pnde
Tradition Art-ET. Art is a son of
Sweet-Haven Tradition.
Combined with his maternal
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AEC employes honored
GETTYSBURG - Twenty
Adams Electric Cooperative
(AEC) employees were recognized
for their safe working practices by
the cooperative at AEC’s Annual
Safety Awards Breakfast held at
the Stonehenge Restaurant,
Gettysburg, April 11.
Adams Electric Cooperative
provides a safety continuing
education program for all em
ployees. This program has
received several awards in
recognition of the cooperative’s
accomplishments in accident
prevention and its dedication to the
training and welfare of its em
ployees.
The purpose of this program,
according to Charles L. Overman,
AEC’s general manager, is to
instill a growing knowledge of and
respect for safe working conditions
and practices. Overman said,
“Adams Electric provides these
job training and education
programs to enable employees to
work safely and develop their
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As a two-year-old, she had a 365-
day lactation of 18,960 pounds of
milk, 654 pounds of butterfat and a
3.4 percent fat test.
Art is now housed at the Midwest
Breeders’ young sire housing
facility in Stewartville, Mn. He is
one of about 100 high genetic
potential young sires sampled each
year in the Shawano, Wi.-based
cooperative’s program.
The program offers incentive
payments, including a bonus for
producers on protein test, to
qualified users of junior sire
semen. The program allows
Midwest to increase the number of
young sires sampled and makes
sampling more efficient.
skills and abilities within the limits
of individual potential while
makmg a contribution to the
cooperative and assuming
positions of greater respon
sibility.”
Employees recognized for their
safety records include:
Five Years- Marcia L. Staub and
Scott A. Wehler.
Ten Years- Glen E. Blocher,
Dawn L. Bodenberg, Donald L.
Caudill, Fern A. Hess, William E.
Myers, Rex A. Mcßoberts and
Philip G. Tate.
Fifteen Years- Thomas I Flynn
and Chester H. Waltemyer.
Twenty Years- Edward J.
Althoff, Caroline E. Baral, Walter
J. Chrismer and Autry T.
Nunamaker.
Twenty-Five Years- Leslie J.
Pomeroy.
Thirty Years- Fred J. Kane, J,
Wayne Kump and Charles A,
Rosensteel.
Thirty-Five Years- Donald G
Hubbard.
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