how many seed brands do you use?

Ussually I use 3 brands of corn, and 2 or 3 of beans. This year I can not get the hybrids I want from the dealers Inormally use so after my scouring and research I will be planting 8 hybrids from 5 different brands- LG, Johnsons, Renk,Producers, and Stine. Soybeans I am still in the planning stage. Geesh! I increased my acreage by about 70% the last 3 weeks so doing some late seed ordering. How many brands do some of you guys run? Any good .5-1.4 soybean recommendations?

I don"t believe it really mathers how many companys you deal with as long as you get the varities that work on your soils.

In my 37 years of farming I have bought from one company many years. The most I have ever used in one year is four. Last year was 3 companys and this coming year will be only one.

But I would never plant all one varity no mather how good it did the year before. I have seen a varity do good for a year or 2 and then fall off the third.

Gary

Just curious what company your going with, what maturity do you plant?

I buy from 2 or 3 places. Such a small farm I should stick to one, but like to keep some options open i guess....

Most of my corn comes from Anderson's Seed, just down the road a few miles, small regional, local, seed breeder.

I get a little from Albert Lea Seedhouse, got some Liberty Link from them a couple years.

And the local Decalb dealer got ahold of me when the local Mycogen dealer quit; I get a very few bags from him just to see how my off-brands measure up to the big boys.

I found some good beans at Hefty; my ground is wet & high ph and clay and doesn't like beans very well. I need to shop for a very defensive, tough bean, not a top yielder. They got a couple that have been working better on my farm, but what I use probably would not be at all good for a lighter soil.

Note that a lot of seed corn comes from the same parent combinations - you can buy from 3 different companies, and end up with the very same corn! There is a list somewhere that identifies the same corn stock, I guess I never paid much attention, but if you buy the same exact maturity from 2 different companies, you might want to check to see you aren't getting the same corn.

--->Paul

Will be buying my wheat seed, Kelse, from Reardon Seed in the spring. I plant public seed, have no desire to ever plant GMO. Besides if I want to hold some back for the following year I can as there is no seed agreement. Also it is supposed to be really good in dry land conditions.

Leonard

Just saying, there is no GMO wheat in the USA at this point in time.....

--->Paul

(quoted from post at 13:04:26 11/20/12) Just saying, there is no GMO wheat in the USA at this point in time.....

--->Paul

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But there is patented wheat.

The big P.

I like their Aquwa Max(sp) varities for my lighter soils. And it looks like we will be dry again.

Gary

RG that is correct, but I have emailed the seller and this is the only one that doesn"t have an agreement that prevents me from holding back the seed. This is improtant to me as I have no wish to fall under the thumb of any of the large chemical manufactures with their genetic patents. Besides this seed company was recommended to me by a WSU professor that breeds public seed. Just my preference.

Leonard

I grow corn, oats, and wheat. One brand of corn. I buy oats amd wheat from a local seed producer.

I plant one or two brands of corn. Gotta about a dozen different brands of hats....

Dave you are ordering way late for this year. I had my seed corn ordered the last week of Sept. My seed guy came around and told me that some of the varieties that I usually plant where in tight supply.

I plant two brands of corn: Channel and Pioneer. I have planted one brand of soybeans the last few years: Champion.

My brother and I plant a seed plot each year. We usually have four or five companies and maybe twenty varieties.