Seed
Successful results at harvest start with the seeds that get put in the ground. Watch here for everything about seed. From hybrid and variety selection to seed treatments and genetics, AcresTV is your seed central.
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Millborn Seeds - MS 9000 Sorghum Sudangrass
Sorghum Sudangrass is a warm-season annual grass developed as a hybrid cross between forage sorghum and sudangrass. It is commonly used as a versatile forage option for grazing, hay, or silage. MS 9000 displays rapid growth and can reach heights of 6-8’ tall at maturity. Unlike forage sorghum, so...
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Millborn Seeds - Japanese Millet
Japanese Millet is a warm-season annual grass commonly grown for forage. It grows up to 5’ tall and has a slightly coarser stem than other hay millets. It is extremely quick growing and can be ready to cut for hay within 50 days of planting. It also displays good regrowth persistence in a multi-c...
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Millborn Seeds - Hybrid Rye
Hybrid Rye was bred to be the highest yielding small grain on the market. Its extensive tillering, solid stem and uniform grain set allow it to out yield other small grains in light and sandy soil. Its Pollen Plus technology creates a shorter pollination window which reduces the chances of ergot ...
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Millborn Seeds - German Millet
German Millet is a warm-season annual grass and a foxtail type millet. German Millet is a fine-stemmed, leafy variety that is commonly planted as a single-cut hay millet. German Millet is quick maturing and works excellent in double cropping scenarios where time becomes limiting for the second cr...
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Millborn Seeds - Forage Winter Wheat
Forage Winter Wheat is a winter annual grain commonly planted for forage production. It is an awnless variety of winter wheat bred for superior forage quality and yield in comparison to other winter annual small grains. It is a late-maturing variety of winter wheat, which results in an extended p...
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Millborn Seeds - Italian Ryegrass
Italian Ryegrass is an extremely high-quality cool season annual crop. It offers some of the highest feed quality and is a good fit where you need a multi-cut crop option. Use it for palatable livestock feed with adequate moisture and fertility. The average seeding rate is 25-30lbs per acre with ...
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Millborn Seeds - Everleaf Oats
EverLeaf® Forage Oats are a spring oat developed as a true forage variety. Everleaf Forage Oats will be taller and much leafier than other varieties of oats and produce high levels of dry matter yield if planted for forage production. They are a very late maturing variety of oat, and the prolonge...
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Millborn Seeds - Dual Threat
Dual Threat is a blend of two top-performing varieties of oat seed developed for use as spring hay or haylage crop. Dual Threat combines a true forage oat variety with a dual-purpose oat variety in a unique mixture for forage production. The Everleaf forage oats are very late maturing and have an...
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Millborn Seeds - Cow Conditioner
Sorghum-sudangrass is a warm-season annual grass developed as a hybrid cross between forage sorghum and sudangrass. It is commonly used as a versatile forage option for grazing, hay, or silage. Cow Conditioner displays rapid growth and can reach heights of 6-8’ tall at maturity. Unlike forage sor...
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Millborn Seeds - Forage Barley
Forage Barley is a beardless spring barley developed as a forage. It is a cool-season annual small grain commonly planted as hay or a silage crop. Forage barley will be taller and leafier than other barley varieties and will exhibit a beardless seedhead. Forage barley is quick maturing and will b...
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Millborn Seeds - Classic Trio
Classic Trio is our quick establishing basic brassica blend. The deep tap roots will alleviate compaction, and you will create a mellow seedbed to plant back into.
This mix meets the NRCS standard cover crop requirements for CSP and EQIP Programs in South Dakota and Minnesota.
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Millborn Seeds - Balanced Plus
This is a great combination of brassicas, grasses, and legumes to maximize soil health. Balanced Plus works great to help create residue, alleviate compaction, and provide even grazing.
This mix meets the NRCS standard cover crop requirements for CSP and EQIP Programs in South Dakota and Minneso...
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Millborn Seeds - Pasture Fix Mix
Our Pasture Fix Mix is a blend of cool-season grasses designed for fast establishment in areas that have been destroyed by livestock or human traffic. The grasses in the blend will mesh well with the grasses in most existing pastures and provides a way to patch areas that turned to mud during an ...
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Millborn Seeds - #3 Hay and Pasture
Our #3 Hay and Pasture Mix is the top of the line pasture option for producers seeking the highest yield and forage quality from their grass. It is a diverse blend of the most productive cool-season grasses on the market and we use improved varieties to keep performance at the highest level possi...
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Herbicide Vapor Pressure, Managing Lentils, Palisade Performance | Ag PhD
The Hefty brothers discuss vaporization/volatility, everything lentils, and raising a small crop on purpose. The Weed of the Week is whorled milkweed and there's an Iron Talk on sprayers.
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Cold Soil Planting | Ag PhD
After a long snowy winter and spring, planting can be a challenge. Darren Hefty gives three tips for planting into cold soils.
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Planting in the Strip | Ag PhD
Darren talks about the necessity of matching your planter to last fall's strip till.
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Weed Control in Ditches, Early Wheat Fungicides, Soybean Seed Treatment| Ag PhD
Learn how farmers and landowners keep weeds out of ditches, what fungicides you could use early in your wheat crop, and what products you should apply to your soybean seed.
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Soybean Seed Treatments | Ag PhD
Brian and Darren Hefty discuss fungicides, insecticides, and biological products you should consider adding to your seed treatment package.
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Planting into Heavy Residue | Ag PhD
How do you get good quick growth from fields covered in leftovers from last year? Brian and Darren uncover all the tricks to help you get the right start.
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Inoculant Tips | Ag PhD
Whether liquid or dry, on the seed or near the seed: inoculants are a useful tools on the farm. Darren helps you do it yourself.
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Planting Into Residue, 'Drought-Proof' Your Crop, Comparing Corn Pre's | Ag PhD
Brian and Darren Hefty are getting us ready for spring with a show about difficult planting, preparing now for dry weather, and finding the best pre-emerge products. The Weed of the Week is stink grass. Plus DIY inoculants.
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Nurse Crops, Broadleaf Weed Control in Wheat, Planting Into Cold Soils | Ag PhD
The Hefty brothers discuss what a nurse crop is, what post-emerge products you should use to control broadleaf weeds in wheat, and how to successfully plant into cold soils.
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Planting Into Cold Soils | Ag PhD
Find out about some steps you can take to successfully plant into cold soils.