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Pioneer Hi-Bred International,
Inc., has added a total of 10 new
seed products to its lineup of com,
soybean, sorghum, and alfalfa
seed products for growers in East
ern and Northeastern areas.
Mark Iwig, director of North
America com breeding for Pion
eer, says new com hybrids now
being introduced are in part the
result of a major expansion in the
company’s research and develop
ment program in the late 1970 s
and early 1980 s.
“With our new com hybrids,
Pioneer’s com hybrid lineup from
top to bottom has never been
stronger,” said Iwig. “Today,
Pioneer offers leader packages of
com hybrids specifically deve
loped to address local environ
mental conditions. The opening of
eight new research locations in the
past decade, giving us a total of 26
corn research stations across
North American corn growing
areas, enables us to select specific
hybrids for local conditions. The
company has research stations
located in New Holland and Quar
ryville, Pa.
“Today, the result is more out
standing hybrids to choose from to
select planting packages that will
help growers spread risk from var
ious environmental, disease, and
insect stresses,” Iwig said.
New Corn Hybrids
Pioneer has five new yellow
deni corn hybrids adapted to the
East and Northeast.
“Extremely high yielding over
wide range of environments,” is
how Terry Williams, Pioneer com
breeder at New Holland, Pennsyl
vania, described new 3394, a 111
comparative relative maturity
(CRM) com hybrid. “It’s extreme
ly fast out of the ground, extreme
ly good stress tolerance with very
good roots, and on top of all this is
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“In the last two years we put in alfalfa with
a nurse crop of spring triticale and field peas.
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a beautiful hybrid to watch grow
all season long.”
Probably the most exciting new
Pioneer hybrid for eastern com
growers is 3245. This 115 CRM
hybrid has “very high yield-record
setting potential, extremely good
grain appearance, very high grain
protein,” Williams said. “It aver
aged more than 280 bushels in
Rutger’s high yield experiment in
1990. It’s an attractive hybrid to
grow.”
Because of its excellent grain
quality, the hardness of grain
starch, and its high test weight, a
number of food processors have
expressed an interest in this
hybrid.
New 3645 is a high yielding
hybrid for New York and the early
sections of the East. On a rising
scale of 1 to 9, Pioneer plant
breeders and agronomists rated
this 102 CRM hybrid a 9 for yield
for maturity and a 7 for stalk
height. “It’s a great hybrid for sil
age for the farmer who wants high
tonnage,” Williams said. “This
hybrid was designed just for the
silage producer.”
Another early hybrid among the
new Pioneer offerings is 3845.
This 91 CRM hybrid can be grown
as far north as com is produced in
the Northeast. “It comes up fast
and shows its yield,” Williams
said. It has an extended grain fill
period and blacklayers later than
other hybrids of this maturity, but
dries down very fast, producing
yields similar to later maturing
hybrids. And while it does well at
higher planting rates, it has good
ear flex when planted at lower
rates.
“For an early hybrid, it can pro
duce very big ears,” Williams
said.
Top end yield, very good grain
quality, and outstanding stalks are
just a few of the traits that Wil-
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“My dairy farm is located on rolling terrain in
Reedsburg, Wisconsin. After the first cutting,
I used the Aer-Way on my thinning alfalfa
stand to get the fertilizer and water into the
ground. The second cutting was noticeably
better with thicker and leafier alfalfa. I would
recommend the Aer-Way to other dairy
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liams said make new 3293 a
“hybrid any grain farmer would be
proud to grow.” This 114 CRM
hybrid is similar to 3241, but with
more top-end yield potential. It
has strong early growth, superior
staygreen, and superb drought
tolerance.
New Soybeans
Three new Pioneer soybean
varieties are being sold for plant
ing next spring. These include
9392, a late group HI; 9521, an
early group V; and 9551, a mid
group V.
New 9392 has an impressive
yield history in the Pioneer
research program. It has very good
brown stem rot and Phytophthora
tolerance and very high yield
potential, said Joe Mayer, Pioneer
field sales agronomist at Peters
burg, Pa. It has fast emergence,
even in cooler soils, making it a
good choice for minimum or no
till planting.
“It is widely adapted across a
variety of soils and conditions,” he
said. “With its good standability,
it will do well just about anywhere
growers want a late group 111
maturity soybean variety.”
With multirace resistance to
Phytophthora root rot and resis
tance to Races 3 and 4 soybean
cyst nematode, new 9521 has the
ability to produce top yields on
problem soils. It is an exceptional
ly high yielding variety for its
maturity, even on soils where cyst
nematode and Phytophthora are
not present.
“Its canopy enables 9521 to
perform well in both wide and nar
row rows, and it should do very
well when planted no-till or
behind wheat as a double crop,”
said Ed Lazowski, Pioneer field
sales agronomy manager at Mount
Joy, Pa.
Pioneer 9551 is resistant to
races 3 and 4 of the soybean cyst
The Aer-Way is playing an
important role in my soil-building
program and saving me fuel and
labour at the same time.'
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Woodstock, Ontario
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nematode. “It also has good toler
ance to sudden death syndrome.
stem canker, and Frogeye leaf
spot,” Lazowski said. It is average
in height and canopy width.
‘This stature may be shorter
than desired on the very heavy
clay soils, but 9551 has performed
very well in these conditions too.
This variety can be planted in all
row widths and as a double-crop
soybean behind wheat,” he said.
Forage
Sorghum Hybrid
New 840 F is a dual purpose
hybrid that produces heavy yields
of low tannin white grain. With an
RM rating of 75, it’s a medium
maturity hybrid with leafy stalks
that grow 6-7 ft. tall, and generally
Keystone Announces
Scholarships
SHOEMAKERSVDLLE (Berks
Co.) Keystone Farm Credit,
ACA announces the availability of
two $5OO scholarships toward the
higher education of students plan
ning to pursue careers in
agriculture.
Keystone, serving the financial
needs of agriculture and rural resi
dents in the 15-county southeast
ern Pennsylvania area, will award
one scholarship in each of its two
regions.
Region I is comprised of Ches
ter, Delaware, Lancaster, Lebanon
and Lower Dauphin counties.
Upper Dauphin, Berks, Bucks,
Carbon, Lehigh, Monroe, Mont
gomery, Northampton, Philadel
phia, Pike and Schuylkill counties
are in Region 11.
An applicants parents) or guar-
must reside in one of the
above counties. Applicants must
produces a high grain to stover
ratio.
“Not only is silage high in ener
gy, but it is also more palatable
because of the low tannin grain
content,” said Mark Hood, Pion
eer grain sorghum breeder at
Clarkdale, Axk.
Alfalfa Variety
“High yield potential is the
main feature of new 5333, a multi
foliate variety that is suited to soils
that are less than well drained,”
said Ed Poynor, Pioneer alfalfa
breeder at Quarryville, Pa. Other
features include high resistance to
bacterial wilt, Fusarium wilt,
anthracnose, Phytophthora root
rot, and moderate resistance to
verticillium wilt.
be high school seniors planning to
attend a four year college on a
full-time basis with agriculture or
agri-business as the major empha
sis of study.
Notification of the availability
of the scholarships is being sent to
the administrators of the secon
dary schools in the 15-county
area. Keystone Farm Credit, ACA
also intends to reach as many of
the private schools in the area as
possible; scholarships are not lim
ited to the public school systems.
Anyone whose educational
institution was not contacted
should not consider himself or
herself excluded from requesting
an application form. He/she is
encouraged to contact Keystone
Farm Credit, ACA, Attention;
Carol M. Mercner, P.O. Box 687,
Avondale, PA 19311, (215)
268-3865.