A42-lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 14, 1999
Hoffman Seeds
Educates
For Next
LANCASTER (Lancaster Co.)
Hoffman Seeds, exclusive dis
tributor of Novartis Seeds in the
Northeast, conducted a Tech
nology Field Day in conjunction
with Novartis Crop Protection to
help educate farmers on the latest
in crop and seed treatment tech
nologies for com, soybeans and
alfalfa, and to assist growers in in
corporating these advances in
their own operations.
The Technology Field Day was
held in conjunction with Dow
Agio Science And AgrEvo at the
Hoffman/NK Technology Learn
ing Center in Lancaster County.
“We’re workiong not only to educate
growers about coping with the challenges in
the next century, but how to prosper in this
new agricultural environment,” said Hoff
man Seeds President Fred M. Lepley. “We’re
providing answers to problems facing fann
ers today and offering a complete package of
technologically-advanced products, includ
ing seed, special-added traits and crop pro
tection, that work together to literally provide
custom-tailored solutions.”
Hoffman Agronomist Mark Mattingly in
troduced a new Bt com hybrids with Yield-
Gard protection and confirmed that selecting
hybrids for drought and stress tolerance con
tinues to be a focus at Hoffman Seeds.
Mattingly highlighted a new hybrid,
N5B-Dl, which provides excellent control of
first and second generation European com
borer and has extremely high yield potential.
Also providing excellent com borer control,
N6BooBt produces high quality grain with
very heavy test weight NB2-J6 is a first
choice hybrid for full-season areas, providing
exceptional top-end yield performance and
good drought tolerance.
A new generation of alfalfa was also intro
duced, including Evergreen with Hopper
Guard™ potato leaf hopper resistance, a
highly adaptive variety scoring a 29 index
rating for disease resistance, and Geneva, ex
pected to be Hoffman’s top-selling new
variety.
Selected for stress tolerance, highlighted
soybeans included R 366, Hoffman’s top-sell
ing Roundup Ready® variety, with superb
performance as a full season or double-crop
variety and widely adapted from central
Pennsylvania to southern Maryland and cen
tral Virginia. 542-MI is a new Roundup
Ready variety with cyst nematode resistance
and excellent early growth. An extremely
flexible new Roundup Ready soybean,
534-B2 is adaptable to most soil types, row
widths, tillage systems and crop rotations.
Showcasing the latest in biotechnology
and its impact on the future of farming, the
on-site Novartis Technology Van provided a
Growers
Century
bank of interactive computers and
PCs loaded with a variety of agri
cultural software for growers to
sample, including a real-time data
and information program, instant
yield and crop mapping, and ac
counting software especially for
the agriculture industry.
“In order to compete world
wide. farmers now have to be ex
tremely technical,” said John
Flanagan, sales representative for
Novartis Crop Protection. “We’re
providing farmers with an oppor
tunity to fine-tune their total
herbicide program with genetical
ly modified plants that are best for
both growers and the environ
ment”
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