Top Pennsylvania DHIA Herds By County For April HIKE 4 DEB EKING IVAN K STOLTZPUS TIH-LAURIEHACKENBERG ALBERT HBIHBACH+SONS ALAN R NAREHOOD H L NAREHOOD & SONS RICH+PATTY SHIREY JR FISHERDALE FARH DAVID APPLE AND SON J NORTH VIEH FARM MOUNTAIN VIEW FARMS GEORGE C STAHL WILLIAM E UUNS6ER6ER LEWIS H BERKLEY CLARADALE FARMS HARRY MOSHOLDER CARRDALE HOLSTEINS SEC WIN FARM WALKER GROVE FARM HARRY E RHOADS STONYLAKE FARH JOYCE RINGLER HILLMONT DEAN E HILLEGASS MOUNT-TOP-VUE FARM RICHARD R HIGLEY D AND D HOTTENSTEIN ROBERT INSINGBR NORKVAL FARMS CARR + STANTON LLOYD & DENISE PEASE PEASE FARMS JOHN CASTROGIOVANNI JIM ROGERS RANSOMED RANSOMDAIRY LONGACRE FARM DARYL BUTTON ROBERT REYAN R M SHIPSKY 4 SONS HARVATINE FARMS HUBAL FARMS FRANCIS SATUNAS JOSEPH PAVELSKI JOHN BENSCOTER BN JOSEPH KARP JR CHATHAH-VALLEY HOL. BISHCROFT FARM SCOTT i LISA BUSH GOR-WOOD-D SILVERLEA FARM THOMASiBRENDA PEPPER DAVID RICK PAZZAGLIA HEN-KEL FARM CLIFFORD BRACE DOUG + JENNY LAWTON GLENN BOWEN WILLIAM CHAMBERLAIN JOHN RISHEL MIFFLIN HILLS FARM BUFF RUN FARM DAVID N MARTIN DANIEL Z MARTIN JR LEROY TROESTER JR WEST BEND, Wis, The U.S. Patent Office recently issued an alfalfa patent for Sequential Maturity™ Alfalfa to inventor Dr. Paul Sun and Dairyland Seed Co., Inc. Company officials state that this patent recognizes an import ant productivity breakthrough thnks to this technologial advance by the plant breeding research group at Dairyland. "This new technology repre sents a true productive advance for today’s alfalfa grower,” stated Dairyland CEO Tom Strachota. “Thanks to this technology, farm ers for the first time can select al falfa with maturities just like they (Continued from Page D 8) 139.8 97.6 70.3 70.7 44.7 73.2 SUSQUEHANNA 26824 26484 24585 select com varieties.” Strachota notes that farmers have been telling Dairyland for the last 10 years that they annually lose one-quarter to one-third of their hay due to poor quality. By using alfalfa with different maturi ties, farmers can improve the vol ume of high-quality forage that they harvest off the same number of acres. Alfalfa consultants and univer sity experts also see value in this technology. “Varied maturity al falfa represents real progress to the serious alfalfa grower.” said Midwest Alfalfa Consultant Art Dilley. “With approximately 40 percent of the yield taken from the 980 922 860 Office Issues Alfalfa Patent 3,3 3.2 3.2 first harvest, use of an early ma turity or a late maturity alfalfa puts the farmer in a much better posi tion to harvest high-quality forage from his entire first cut” Dr. Neal Martin of the Univer sity of Minnesota also sees value in this technology. “There is real potential with varied maturity al falfa varieties to harvest more high-quality forage.” Currently Dairyland markets two alfalfa that arc derived through this technology. The ear lier maturity (Forecast 1000) alfal fa can provide farmers an earlier forage harvest which can be im-, portant in springs when forage HILL CRAFT FARM MELVIN Z MUSSER BEAVER RUN FARM RUFUS B. MARTIN LOCUST-RIDGE FARM IRA R ZIMMERMAN NORMAN N MARTIN AMOS M STOLTZFUS ALAN C KALER DICK-MAR FARMS JERRY+KATHY BEARY RANDALL MESSINGER RONALD HUNTER DENNIS LINDELL FLOYD BEARDSLEY HEAVERTOWN FARMS HAMILTON BROS JOHN & J E HARCHEZAK CO-HILL FARMS MARION PYLE STONE CON ACRES HIGHLAND FARMS TOM WOROBBY KEV&GERARDA BURLEIGH ART & BARB RUTLEDGE DALE WOROBBY GEORGE&DAVE BANICKY JACK AND ELLA CHYLE ROHE BROS CLEARFIELD FARMS HARRY R MARKER JOHN 4 ROBERT GRAHAM JAMBS E HC QUAIDE RICHARD G STONER KEITH C HALTERS INSINGA HOLSTEINS HAYNE-ROGER SHERHOOD DA VUE HOLSTEINS COUNTRY HEAVEN HOL R + H KUZMA FARM SHUPPS FARM RAMSEY S COOPER JR SMYSERS RICHLAWN FHS WALK LE HOLSTBINS LEONARD GREEK RUTTERS EDWIN L CALHOUN WAYSHAR FARM LYNN WOLF EARL FUHRMAN GARY W THOMAN GLEN & DAWN ANDERSON CALVIN HOSTETTER THOMAS A BOYER ELVIN R DEITER TAYACRES FARM HYERWOOD FARMS HALL, BERNARD E B.LEONARD REICHHANN HIDDEN VALLEY FARM supplies are short. In addition. Forecast 1000 provides the oppor tunity for an extra harvest off that same acreage in a long growing season. Alternatively Forecast 3000, a late maturity alfalfa, is an ideal fit for three-cut harvest systems which have recently received Uni versity extension endorsements as the best suited system for the Mid- 153.9 51.8 59.1 34.3 69.7 41.6 107,1 254.0 76.9 90.3 38.4 43,3 74.8 52.8 54.5 22641 21286 21672 21324 mn 20949 WESTMORELAND 25248 24457 22821 23034 22385 WYOMING 25189 23756 24441 23539 21711 '20473 YORK 28260 27795 27012 25543 25006 25135 24511 23976 24443 22405 22409 21970 22871 22384 22293 NEW JERSEY 24305 NEW YORK 27335 21832 22972 52.3 43.5 58.7 66.3 93.0 119.7 74,0 53 6 66.3 98 2 52.5 301.1 68.1 70.2 383,8 727 3.2 724 3.1 720 3,1 715 3,1 707 3.2 687 3.2 683 3.1 683 3.2 677 3.0 781 3.3 725 3,4 823 793 714 827 732 3.2 705 3.2 689 3.1 683 3.2 3.6 3.6 3.2 3.9 760 3.2 747 3.1 707 3.2 690 3.4 678 3,0 776 3,1 760 3.2 738 3.1 737 3.2 724 3.2 714 3.' 704 3." 699 3. 681 3.: 680 3,i, 796 3 J 791 3,< 747 3 ! 721 3 1 700 3 1 801 3,2 772 3 2 756 3 1 753 3 2 680 3.1 678 3 3 887 3.1 843 3.0 841 3.1 813 3.2 797 3.2 783 3.1' 765 3.1* 761 3.2? 752 3.11 721 3.2* 721 3.2 714 3.2 710 3 1 709 3 2 706 3.2 745 3 1 855 3 1 717 3.3 716 3 1 3.8 3 2 3 5 1031 702 813 west Strachota indicated that the release of these alfalfa is based on more than a decade of research and that both yield and persistence of the products was thoroughly proven in university and on-farm trials before the products were re leased. Chemgro Seeds’, located in East Petersburg, is the Northeast distributor for Dairyland Seeds. f W' ~r i >UB
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