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StandFastTM Alfalfas Deliver Improved Standability and Up to 30% Faster Recovery After Harvest
David Johnson, Mark Darling, Doug Miller, & Jonathan Reich
West Salem, WI
StandFastStandFastTMTM Alfalfas Alfalfas
Key Features
High yielding varieties that carry the Standfast™Alfalfa Technology Traits for improved standability through bloom stage and faster recovery after harvest.
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Breaking the Yield Barrier
StandFastTM AlfalfasGenetic Background:A synthetic variety developed from crossing European germplasm screened for US adaptability onto elite US fall dormant plants selected for superior yield, forage quality, and persistence.
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StandFastTM alfalfas are the product of conventional breeding…not GMO’s!
A unique family of tall, fast growing alfalfas with improved standability!
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New Alfalfas with the StandFastTM Technology Traits
Patent PendingOn average, total alfalfa yield for the season decreases 0.5 tons DM/acre for each 1-inch of stem left in the field during the 3 summer cuts (Univ. WI)
Lodged alfalfa = harvest losses
You can see the remarkable differencesYou can see the remarkable differences between conventional varieties and alfalfas between conventional varieties and alfalfas
with with StandFast™StandFast™ traits.traits.
StandFastStandFast™ Alfalfas™ Alfalfas
Conventional alfalfasConventional alfalfas
Improved Standability!Improved Standability!
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Seed buyers now will be able to evaluate their alfalfa seed for
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Mercedes =Check Variety withModerate Standability
Europe =Check Variety withHigh Standability
Similar Stem Diameter at Bloom Stage6/9/03
Entry Stem Diamter (mm)Vernal 3.58StandFast a 3.64StandFast b 3.90StandFast c 3.95Mercedes 3.98WinterGold 4.03Europe 4.29
LSD (0.05) 0.29C.V. (%) 5.59R2 0.91
Stem diameter measured with calipers at base of lowest nodeof 100 stems from each variety (25 stems from each of 4 reps).
StandFastTM Alfalfa2.62 cm/day growth
Conventional Alfalfa1.99 cm/day growth
Data from 8 cuttings on 3 trials through 21 days
30% Faster Recovery after 30% Faster Recovery after Harvest!Harvest!
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StandFast™ varieties set new standard for recovery rate after harvest!
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Feature: Faster Rate of Recovery (% advantage in blue)
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3.0%Benefit: More Yield (% advantage in red)
1999 2000 2001 2002 Total 2cuts 4cuts 5cuts 5cuts 16cutsEntry T/A T/A T/A T/A T/A
StandFast 3.20 7.78 9.34 7.86 28.25
Conventional 3.20 7.51 8.58 6.84 26.12
Advantage 0.0% +3.6% +8.9% Advantage 0.0% +3.6% +8.9% +14.9% +8.2%+14.9% +8.2%
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Yield and Persistence
StandFastTM Alfalfa Persistence
Percent Stand after 3 winters and 17 cutsPercent Stand after 3 winters and 17 cuts
80.56%Trial Mean
55.00%Mercedes
58.75%Europe
92.50%Ascend
82.50%WinterGold
92.08%StandFast
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Percent stand after 2 winters,10 cuts and 4 locations*.Percent stand after 2 winters,10 cuts and 4 locations*.
*IA, MN, WI (2)
79.8%Trial Mean
75.7%Rebound 4.2
77.2%Magnum V
77.2%WL 325HQ
79.4%Pioneer 54V54
82.8%StandFast
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Yield Milk/ Milk/Entry T/A RFQ Ton Acre
StandFast™ Alfalfas 6.82 192 2,986 20,372
Conventional Alfalfas 5.96 201 3,031 18,027StandFast™Advantage +14.4% -4.6% -1.5% +13.0%
Data from 4 cuttings during 2002, 4th year of stand
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Yield and Forage Quality
StandFast Yield & Quality
Yield Trial – Seeded April 2001 at West Salem, WI. Results shown are for crops 1, 2 and 3 of the 5 crops taken during the 1st hay year.
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Entry Tons/Ac CP RUP NDFD RFQ Milk/Ton
Milk/Acre StandFast 6.00 21.9 23.2 48.2 201 3,042 18,259
WinterGold 5.50 23.2 22.7 48.8 230 3,200 17,590 Magnum V 5.77 22.4 23.3 48.2 202 3,049 17,580 54V54 5.63 22.2 22.8 47.8 205 3,048 17,580 403T 5.47 23.2 23.5 48.6 215 3,119 17,067 WL 325HQ 5.51 23.0 22.8 47.9 211 3,075 16,929
StandFast Increases Total Season Production
Advantage of 5 cut vs 4 cut system NumberVariety of Cuts Tons/Acre RFQ Milk/Ton Milk/Acre
StandFast 4+1=5 8.85 201 3,042 27,022WL 325HQ 4+1=5 8.01 211 3,075 24,712
Advantage 10.5% - 4.7% -1.1% 9.3%
StandFast 3+1=4 7.69 145 2,650 20,387 WL 325HQ 3+1=4 7.42 149 2,680 19,943
Advantage 3.6% -2.7% -1.1% 2.2%
StandFast 4+1=5 8.85 201 3,042 27,022WL 325HQ 3+1=4 7.42 149 2,680 19,943
Advantage 19.3% 34.9% 13.5% 35.5%
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Management Keys• Best adapted to four and five cut harvest system across the
traditional fall dormancy 3, 4 and 5 production zones.• The fast recovery trait will help maximize total yield of high
quality forage each cropping season.• The fast recovery trait does not express itself fully until the
third crop of the seeding year if spring direct seeded.• The improved standability trait will provide in field
protection against yield loss starting the seeding year. • Will reach the late bud or early flower stage 3-5 days ahead
of current varieties with the same dormancy.• No observed soil type or management limitations.
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Minimize field loss to downed cropMinimize field loss to downed crop
More even distribution of yieldMore even distribution of yield
Reducing days between Reducing days between cuttingscuttings
Breaking the Yield Barrier
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