ITHACA, NY - The annual
scramble is on as the nation’s
farmers select seeds for spring
planting, and the seed outlook is
excellent.
Seed stocks for most grain and
forage crops are plentiful, except
for the newest varieties that are
moving into production, according
to a Cornell University field crops
specialist.
“This is a good year to choose
high performing varieties,” says
William O. Pardee, a professor and
chairman of the Department of
USDA proposes requirements
(or importing uncooked ham
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S.
Department of Agriculture is
proposing to establish
requirements for the importation
of prosciutto ham, a USDA official
said today.
“Under current regulations,
uncooked hams such as prosciutto
are not allowed to be imported into
the United States because of the
danger of introducing foot-and
mouth disease, African swine
fever, hog cholera, and swine
vesicular disease,” said Bert W.
Hawkins, administrator of USDA’s
Animal and Plant Health In
spection Service.
Hawkins said the Consorzio del
Prosciutto di Parma, an
association of Italian producers of
Parma ham, has developed strict
processing procedures for en
suring that its prosciutto is
disease-free. Swine are bred and
raised especially for these hams.
The meat is first treated with a
low-salt solution, then aged for
more than a year before it is ready
for market as prosciutto.
“At the request of the Consorzio,
the USDA tested these procedures
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Expert calls ’B6 a good year to choose seeds
Plant Breeding and Biometry in
the New York State College of
Agriculture and Life Sciences at
Cornell.
Stressing the importance of
choosing top-quality varieties,
Pardee urges farmers to look for
varieties that have two features
the capacity to give high yields and
the ability to withstand attacks by
disease organisms and insect
pests.
“Seed quality and performance
are the key to profits,” Pardee
points out. “Top varieties can
outyield poor ones by 20 to 30
at its Foreign Animal Disease
Diagnostic Laboratory,” said
Hawkins. “The results showed that
the processing procedures used by
the Italians were adequate to
ensure that the prosciutto is free of
exotic viruses of concern to us.”
The USDA proposal would
establish safeguards to ensure that
the hams would come only from
swine that are free of the specified
diseases, and that the identity of
the hams would be maintained
from the time of slaughter through
processing and importation.
The proposal also includes
provisions to ensure that the hams
would be processed only in
establishments capable of meeting
the proposed requirements and
where the operators had agreed to
comply with them.
Written comments on the
proposal may be sent until April 21
to Thomas 0. Gessel, Regulatory
Coordination Staff, Animal and
Plant Health Inspection Service,
USDA, Room 728, Federal
Building, 6505 Belcrest Road,
Hyattsville, Md. 20782.
295 Woodcorner Rd
Lititz, PA 17543
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percent, making good seed the best
investment in any year. For small
grains and alfalfa, look for cer
tified seed, which is your
assurance of quality.”
As Pardee sees it, the outlook for
the seed situation this spring,
overall, is excellent. Here is the
rundown:
Corn- plentiful, with a wide
choice of top-performing varieties
available, but some shortages are
expected for new superior
varieties that are selling fast and
may run out soon.
Oats- plentiful for all of the top
varieties, including Ogle and
Porter.
Spring barley-- adequate.
Reconuneded are two Canadian
varieties - Birka and Rodeo. Birka
topped the 1985 field tests con
ducted by Cornell, with Rodeo
close behind.
Alfalfa- adequate for most
varieties, except for newest
varieties, such as Oneida VR from
Cornell. Varieties resistant to
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several common diseases, such as
Phytophotora root rot, Ver
ticillium wilt, anthracnose, and
Fusarium wilt, should be top
choice.
Cornell’s Oneida VR has high
resistance to Verticillium, a new
disease that has established a
foothold in parts of New York and
Pennsylvania in the past few
years. Other Verticillium-resistant
varieties include Excalibur
(Agway); WL 316 and WL 320
(Beachley-Hardy); and 5444
(Pioneer).
Oneida VR also has resistance to
anthracnose. Other varieties
known to have resistance to this
disease include Cornell’s Saranac
AR and Mohawk; WL 316 and WL
320 (Beachley-Hardy); Advantage
(DeKalb); and Maxim and
Emerald (Hoffman).
All of these varieties also have
resistance to bacterial wilts, says
Pardee.
Blrdsfoot trefoil- adequate. The
new variety to look for is Moreen,
which is the “best tretoil to come
along in many years,” says
Pardee. Seed stocks for Viking are
limited. Empire, Maitland, and
Peak are other possible choices.
Red clover- adequate with good
stocks for Arlington. Other im
proved varieties include Tristan,
Reddy, Redmor, Mor-Red,
Redland 11, and Prosper I. All
these varieties have resistance to
the northern anthracnose disease.
Timothy- adequate for Climax
but short for Champlain, also a
Cornell variety.
Bromegrass- short, particularly
for Saratoga, the leading variety
recommended for the Northeast.
Seed supplies for other forage
crops such as orchardgrass and
sorghum-sudangrass appear
plentiful.
“Given the uncertain outlook for
crop prices this year, emphasis
should be on efficient production,”
Pardee stresses, “this means high
yielding varieties with strong
insect and disease resistance.”