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Show : ALFALFA i VARIETY FOR i BEAVER. CO. Farmers are asking about what alfalfa variety they should plant, according to Grant Esplin, Beaver County Agent. Ranger has been the most popular variety since it was developed about 25 years ago. Ranger .has been a good producer as have some of 1 the other varieties such as Lahonton. Some farmers in ' Beaver C ounty have reported their stands of Ranger have been going out after 4 or 5 years where it used to stay in 10-15 years. This indicates that stem nematode may be a problem . In northern Utah, stem nematode has been I a serious problem and farm - I ers there have been switching switch-ing to nematode resistant varieties such as Washoe. Beaver County growers who have stands of Lahonton report that this variety is holding up much longer than Ranger. I Results of alfalfa variety j trials in Beaver County, and ! throughout the state are in-, in-, dicating that there are several sev-eral newer varieties that will out yield Ranger or Lahonton, Lahon-ton, 12 to 1 ton per acre per year. These trials in Beaver County have been on Nick Leko's farm in Milford and Sam Hutchings farms in Beaver. Desert is the variety that has been at, or near, the top in all cuttings in the Beaver County trials. Desert is resistant re-sistant to stem nematode, bacterial wilt and lodging. Deseret is a coarse stem -ed alfalfa which is an advantage ad-vantage for preventing lodging, lodg-ing, but may lower the di-gestiablity di-gestiablity and protein con-, con-, tent. Other varieties that have been consistantly high In the Beaver County trials have been Anchor, Dawson andWL 309. Unfortuantely, all of these varities are sucept-able sucept-able to stem nematode, although al-though they are resistant to bacterial wilt. Anchor is resistant re-sistant to Green Pea Aphid but not to spotted alfalfa aphid. aph-id. (Spotted alfalfa aphid , has not been a problem in Beaver County for many years.) WL 309 and Dawson Daw-son are both resistant to Pea Aphid and Spotted Alfalfa Aphid. Washoe has not been in the top five yielders in Beaver County trials (20 varieties planted in the trials) but offers of-fers some advantages in that it is resistant to nematode, spotted and green pea aphid and bacterial wilt. It is a five stemed leafy hay. If you would like more information contact Grant Esplin, Beaver County Agent. |
