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Show Hybrid corn variety has high yield Seldom, if ever, has a new Daring the past few yean the Another interesting trait of multiplicity of new com variety in Its first commercial this variety is that "its exvarietia being introduced has test year established such a cellent seedling vigor very made selecting the right one an consistently high yield average emphatically crowds out the unover such a far reaching and weeds." difficult especially diverse growing area. How do dertaking. you explain it? This tall growing silage This year, however, one is a rare exception to find hybrid is characterized by It ease the decisionvariety might a variety with such an ex- broad, upright growing leaves. making procedure. Thats broad adaptation The plants thus produce not because it has already been pre- tremely said Hombrook. One only a high grain content but area, tested in replicated evaluation more green matter. is that the parents also explanation plots and in limited comof were from separate Total leaf production is far mercial plantings not in just one growing areas and were sub- greater than on comparable but or two isolated areas but in jected to different growing shorter growing varieties. every major corn growing conditions and stresses and section of the United States. The leaf profile", Hombrook possessed diverse germ plasm. explained, captures more Although this new variety, Just how the genes from the sunlight and this tends to inFunk's was developed match up in the crease the efficiency of the mainly for high grain producing parents photosynthetic process. The conpotential, it is proving very progeny, Hombrook additional energy generated successful for silage not only in tinued, is a matter of chance within the plant adds to the or random arrangement." Utah but throughout the Northgrain producing potential. west and states. "This variety, Hombrook Hornbrooks breeding "The maturity of was hardly a random explained, "differs from other program said Bert Hombrook, plant undertaking because is a hybrids in that it dries down' breeder for Funk Seeds Incross variety developed single quite Although it may ternational, who developed this from two separate parent lines. flowerrapidly. later than other hybrids in for too is long variety, grain It took from eight to 10 years in its maturity range, once its Utah but it is such a big plant to develop each line. The new maturation process starts the that it works ideally for silage hybrid was then tested for four grain dries very quickly. This here." years before being released. In allows for earlier harvesting Because grain contributes so total . . . "14 to 15 years were which pays off in a big way in to breed this variety, the event of early rains." significantly to the nutritional required ' value of silage it should prove said Hombrook. responds dramatically interesting to review Each line", Hombrook to good farming practices. performance thus far as a grain stated, was chosen from Inadequate cultural procedures variety. hundreds of other lines which inhibit its ability to attain peak This new introduction has means about 99 percent of the yields. "Proper watering, produced yields consistently liens tested were discarded." fertilizing and correct plant above 200 bushels per acre all populations, Hombrook The top grain yield built into emphasized, the way from the deep south are essential for was accomplished into Tennessee and Kentucky, maximum production. line contributing through Indiana, Illinois, Iowa through one The recommended plant and Missouri, then south and long ears and the other conpopulation at harvest time for west into New Mexico, Arizona tributing girthy ears. The ability of this new variety to produce top yields is in- dicated by test plantings completed last season over an extremely wide range of growing conditions, including Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Utah. . In Utah where com silage yields average 16 tons per acre, La Mar Skeen who farms in the Warren area, produced 30 tons of silage per acre with this new introduction. "We get more grain out of said Skeen, than other varieties with the same maturity. The leaves have an upright growth, the kernels are big and the ears are large." Inter-Mounta- 7, and California. Perhaps Two growers in first year trial plantings last season reported yields of 304.6 and 337.7 bushels per acre thats in excess of 17,000 pounds of grain per acre. the most im- pressive trait of this variety, Hombrook indicated, is that under normal to excellent growing conditions it is one of the highest yielding varieties available. if FREEDOM is TAKE IT FROM this variety should not exceed 26,000 plants. Yields drop perceptibly if the population is substantially above or below this figure. Crowding this variety, Hombrook warned, tends to reduce ear size significantly. what you want, SBinGtiDSBn EASY TO ASSEMBLE, HEAVY DUTY STEEL GRAJN BINS GIVE YOU SELL WHEN THE PEICE IS EIGHT AVOID COSTLY COMMEECIAL STORAGE CONTROL YOUR OWN CROP QUALITY VISIT TOUR FRIENDLY LOCAL DEALER TODAY. it it AMERICAN variety fruition. may never bear Just a few minutes of improper harvesting, in fact, can threaten the results of years of breeding and research. To maximize the improvements bred into a new variety the grower must contribute 'expertise in crop management. As a wise sage once predicted . . . you cant have the one without the other. Why Is Lamb So Expensive? Sheep, a renewable natural resource, provide the only way to market woody, ihruby, weedy vegetation that grows on steep moan-tai- n slopes. Regardless of lltah Wool Growers HALVERSON COMPANY 467-942- dhrieioa af 6CAFCO 3 Lc Mar Skeen, Weber County fanner and dairyman, points out high grain content of con which he mews and beds to his dairy cows at Warren.silage This brief report on breeding and introducing a new com variety is hardly a story in itself Unless the grower provides the necessary cultural practices thejraits built into the Now we have Vi million. Its piata economics. Government laws mean hunb la reserved for coyotes and the wealthy few- - THE FREEDOM TO: Anne Salt Lake City, Utah 84101 Telephone variety. The leaves are placed higher, the grain looks better and it has a long enough maturity far this area", Hunt claimed. what our environmental friends say, coyote predation is putting the sheep industry out of business. From a birth rate of 130 to a surviveability rate of 70 at market time, It Is not possible for us to stay in business. No amount of theorizing can change that bet. We had 1V million breeding ewes in 1967. OUR 235 Paxton Archie Hunt of Plain City, Utah, produced 31 'h tons of corn silage per acre with this new Salt Lake City, Ut. 359-397- 2 Some people once thought they could eniure en ebundent crop by putting a leefy brunch in the furrow of the corn field. |