About Perdue Farms Inc. - SARE
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About Perdue Farms Inc.
• Perdue Foods - (branded chicken, and turkey products distributed through retail, food service, and international customers) • Coleman Natural Foods – (organic and antibiotic free meats – chicken, turkey, pork) • Niman Ranch - (antibiotic and hormone free meats – beef, pork, hams, burgers, franks, and breakfast meats)
• Grain & Oilseed – (grain merchandising; processing of oilseeds for oil, meal and hulls; refining and blending edible oils) • Animal Nutrition – (high-end feed ingredients for the dairy industry, custom poultry blends, alternative feed ingredients) • Agricultural Services – (agronomic services for farmers, organic fertilizers) • Specialty Crops – (contracting, agronomic support and purchase of specialty crops such as HEAR Rapeseed and High Oleic Sunflowers)
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Seed
Development Seed
Production
Seed Sales
Crop Supervision
Seed Planting
Grain Harvest
Grain Transfer
Grain Conversion
Poultry Conversion
Feed Transfer
Poultry Management
Soil Prep & Soil Fertility
Agricultural Services Value Chains
Fertilizer PPP
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Agronomy Services: Who We Serve
• Conventional Growers – Retail, Consulting, Precision Ag Agronomy Tools, Pioneer’s Encirca Services
• Specialty Crop Growers – Contracting HEAR Rapeseed in North East including Agronomic Support
• Organic Grain Growers – Microstart 60, Agronomic and Organic Consulting, Nutrient Management Plans
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Cover Crops Recommendations: Develop Grower Profile
• Assess the Grower’s Operation: Livestock, Row Crops, Mixed, Equipment and Personnel
• Cultural Practices: Rotation, Corn Maturity, Soybean Maturity, Tillage Practices, Management Level
• Agronomic Challenges: Pests, Fertility, Disease • History of Cover Cropping • Goals of the Grower – Motivation for using Cover
Crops • Soils • There is no one Perfect Strategy for everyone
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Recommendations: Implementation
• Cost- Seed Budgets generally $15-30 per acre
• Timing & Practicality
• Establishment Methods: Broadcast, Incorporated, Drilled, Hydroseed, Planter
• Nutrient Applications: Timing, Type, Locations, Rates
• Custom Work?
• Weather
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Common Cover Crop Practices
• Rye- Planted on both livestock (Dairies) and row crop operations
• 2 to 12 species Cover Mixes including Grasses, Legumes, and Brassicas
• Custom Blends gaining popularity with Growers and Retailers
• Quality Early Maturing Corn and Soybean Genetics • Planting Tillage Radish with Winter Wheat and
Barley grain crops at 1lb/acre • Interseeding Corn • Dawn Biologic Cover Crop
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Nutrient Management
• Livestock Growers have wider spread windows with Cover Crops
• Higher field nutrient retention
• Cover Crops are becoming a staple in nutrient management plans
• Reduction of manure runoff
• Nutrient cycling
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HEAR Rapeseed
• High Eurcic Acid Rapeseed – Winter Annual similar to Canola
• 2015-2016 500 acres planted in Pennsylvania and Delaware
• Targeting 5,000 acres for 2016-2017 • Planted 6 weeks prior to Killing Frosts (Mid
September) • Harvested in Late June • Perdue Provides Agronomic and Management
Support
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Wheat Stubble planted to Tillage Radish August 5th 2015, planted to Rapeseed September 17th 2015
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Dormant Rapeseed; Tillage Radish terminated by cold weather
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Rapeseed March 28th, 2016
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Terminated Tillage Radish January 2016
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Terminated Tillage Radish March 28th 2016
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Organic Cover Crops
• Cover Crops are required in Organic Crop Rotation – Legumes!
• Clover frost seeded into Wheat
• Rye for No-Till Soybeans
• Annual Rye Grass mixes for Tillage Operations
• Hairy Vetch- management challenges
• Winter Annual crops allow for the use of many different cover crop species to address issue
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Organic Cover Crops…
• Tillage Radish mixes for compaction and weeds
• Sudangrass/Millet mixes with Sunn Hemp to control weeds, add biomass, and frost kill
• Buckwheat and Oats weed competition and biomass
• Keep the soil covered
• Winter Annuals allow greatest diversity of Cover Crops in rotation
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Organic Cover Crops…
• Winter mixes: Cereal grains, legume, canola/rapeseed: Diversity above and below the soil line
• Diverse environment for beneficial insects
• Cover Crop Strips: Planting crops in strips vs contiguous fields for biodiversity
• Interseeding corn at V4-V6, weed competition, ground cover, longer maturity corn
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Agricultural Services
Seed
Agronomic Services
Organic Farm Inputs
Producer Risk Management
Organic Systems Planning
• Perdue AgriBusiness offers services and products to farmers in the eastern U.S. to improve: – Yield – Grain quality – Crop diversity – Soil health
• Products and Services
– Seeds and treatments – Agronomic services – Farm inputs – Producer risk management – Organic systems planning program:
supports existing and transitioning organic farmers
Ag Services-Organic, Feb 2016 19
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Questions? Andrew Smyre Agronomist Perdue AgriBusiness [email protected] Cell: 443-359-3700