A step ahead crop protect! by BUI Camerer “What’s Aphanomyces?” We hear that question a lot since introducing Doebler’s Precedent, one of the very few alfalfas resistant to this new disease. Aphanomyces won its name as the scourge of Midwest pea crops. Recently it spun off a strain that attacks alfalfa. Water-logged seedings are hit the hardest. If you seeded a Phytolphthora-resistant alfalfa this past spring and still found a lot of root rot, this new fungus could be the culprit. Hard winters and other diseases can be equally devastating. Here’s how Doebler’s alfalfas protect your crop: SEVEN-WAY PROTECTION Precedent Starmaster Winter hardiness Bacterial Wilt Verticillium Wilt Anthracnose Fusarium Wilt Phytophthora RR Aphanomyces Disease resistance gives you longer stands and 10 to 15% higher yields in later years, extension agents say. We feel our new Precedent and Starmaster do even better. And Eastern alfalfa trials confirm it. DOEBLER'S c yilfalfa R.D. 1, Jersey Shore, PA 17740 DOEBLER'S ALFALFAS Very good Excellent Highly Resistant Resistant Highly Resistant Resistant Moderately Resistant Resistant Resistant Resistant Highly Resistant Highly Resistant Resistant . < Alfalfa test plots take a lot of hand work. I’m Bill Camerer with small cutterbar mower, above. Matt McCormick is on wooden rake. We harvest our 128 entries every 30 days, weather permitting. Then we weigh hay, at right, and calculate tons per acre. on on , •. s y*t * < , '•'^ m ' »V-\ * ; 4 / -s■*'*’ *"'; >*• ' '/Vf 7 **- * - ■>** ' . <Sts**r «**“.»- *■ ,*,.. ~'V«* „* *. , ■'V. <
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