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
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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
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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-
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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.
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