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Show New Corn Variety Shows Wide Adaptability For Utah During the just few years the miiltqiluitv of new com varieties 1kiiii introduced has made selecting the right one an esXcially difficult undertaking. This year, however, one variety misfit ease the decision- - . making That's Intause it has already lieen pre- - tested in replicated evaluation plots and in limited commercial plant lilies not til just one or two isolated areas hut in every major com growing section of the Tinted States. ALTHOUGH this new vanctv. Funk's was developed mainly for high grain producing potential, it is proving very prix-ed-ure- successful for silage not only in Utah hut through the Northwest and Mountain states. "The maturity of out Inter- - said Bert Ilorn-hroo- plant breeder for Illinois, Iowa and Missouri then south and west into New Mexico, Arizona and California Two growers in first year tnal plantings last season reported ijields of VH 8 and .117.7 bushels Funk Seeds Internationthis al, who develop'd variety, "is too long for thats in exgram in I'tah hut it is jxt acre such a big plant that it cess of 17,000 pounds of works ideally for silage gram per acre. Seldom, if ever, has a here. new Because contrivariety in its first gram butes so significantly to commercial test year esthe nutritional value of tablished such a consistently high yield average silage it should prove inover sue h a far reaching teresting to review performance thus and diverse growing area. How do you exjilam it far as a gram varietv. IT IS a rare exceji-tioTIMS new introdiKtiou to find a vanity with has produced yields consmh an cxtremelv broad sistently alxive 200 busharea." said els xt acre all the wav ailaptation Ilombrook. "One explathrough the deep south nation is that the parents into Tennessee and Kenof were from sepIndiana, tucky, through arate growing areas, were to different subjected Bert Ilombrook, plant breeder for Funk Seeds International, points out deep seated kernels on long, a com silage variety he developgirthv ear of ed for I'tah growing conditions. - n conditions and growing stresses and possessed diverse germ plasm. " "Just how the genes from the parents match tip in the progeny", Ilombrook continued, is a matter of chance or random arrangement. I lomhrook's breeding was hardly a program random undertaking. is a single cross va netv developed from two lines. separate parent "It took from eight to ten years to develop each line. The new hvbnd was then tested for four years Indore being released. In total. . . "11 Ito 15 years were required to breed this vanctv " "F. ACII line, Ilombrook stated, "was chosen from hundreds of oth- er lines which means about 91) percent of the lines tested were discarded " The top gram yield built into was accomplished through one line contributing long ears and the other mg girthv ears. Perhajis the most impressive trait of this Ilombrook indi-- , con-tnb- nt v, . - ''' V cated. "is that under normal to excellent growing conditions it is one of the highest yielding varieties available. ANOlllFK interest- ing trait of this varietv is that "its excellent seedling vigor very emjihati-callthe out crowds weeds " v tall growing age hvhrid is characterized by broad, upright growing leaves. The plants thus produce not onlv a high gram content but also more green matter." Total leaf prixluc-tiois far greater than (mi comjiarable but shorter growing varieties. "The leaf profile," 11ns sil- n Ilombrook cx)tamed. "captures more sunlight and this tends to increase of the the efficiency jihotosy nthctic process. The additional energy generated within the plant adds to the grain producing potential. "illlS variety," Ilombrook explained, differs from other hybrids in that it dries down quite rapidly. Although it may flower later than other hybrids in its maturity range, once its maturation process starts the grain dnes very quickly. This allows for earlier harvesting which "jiavs off in a big wav in the event of early rams." draresponds matically to good farmInadeing practices. quate cultural proced- Archie Hunt, a Cache County fanner, compares upa new com variety, right growing leaves of (right) which produced 3 11! tons of com silage per acre with a variety characterized by drooping leaves. r fruition. Ilombrook warned, tends Just a few minutes of to reduce ear size significantly." improper harvesting, in TIIH ability of this new fact, can threaten the revariety to produce top sults of years of breeding yields is indicated bv test and research. To maxiplantings completed last mize the improvements bred into a new variety season over an extremethe grower must contrily wide range of growbute exjxrtise in crop conditions, including management. .As a wise ing Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Utah. sage once predicted. . . In I'tah where com silyou cant have the one without the other. tons IS age yields average jier acre, la Mar Skeen who farms in the Warren WHY IS area prcxluced 30 tons of LAMB SO silage per acre with this EXPENSIVE? new We production. lx-a- get more grain out of said Skeen, than other varieties with the same maturity. The lea- ures inhibit its abihtv to Proattain jxsik yields. per watering, fertilizing ves have an ujiright and correct plant populathe kernels are big Ilombrook emtions, and the ears are large. are essential phasized, Archie Hunt of Plain for maximum production." I'tah, prcxluced 31 City, The recommended plant '2 tons of com silage jier harvest at population acre with this new varitime for this variety shoThe leaves are placety. uld not exceed 26,(XX) ed higher, the grain looks plants. Yields drop perbetter and it has a long ceptibly if the populaenough maturity for this is tion substantially above area, Hunt claimed. or lielow this figure. THIS brief report on Crowding this variety," breeding and introducing a new com variety is hardly a story in itself. Unless the grower provides the cultural pracnecessary tices the traits built into the varietv may gro-wl- Sheep, a renewable natural resource, provide the only way to market weedy woody, shruby, that grows on vegetation mountain slopes. steep of what our Regardless friends say, environmental coyote predation is putting the sheep industry out of business. From a birth rate of 130 percent to a surviv-eabilit- y rate of 70 percent at market time, it is not possible for us to stay in No of business. amount theorizing can change that fact. We had 1 ' million ewes in 1967. breeding Now we have Vi million. It's plain economics. UTAH WOOL GROWERS Salt Lake City 359-397- 2 WASATCH CHEMICAL is a natural... for people on the go! has the RIGHT solution for all your needs! 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