Flexible Harvest Management
- 3- or 4-cut harvest systems during the growing season.
- Standability through late flower – StandFast®.
- Faster drydown at harvest.
- Greater leaf retention for higher yield and quality.
Management Profile
- The variety to plant if one or more cuts during the growing season may be in the field to late flower due to weather or grower choice. Improved Standability helps reduce field and harvest loss and protects yield and forage quality better than varieties that lodge when harvest is delayed.
- Adapts to relaxed 3-cut, Traditional 3-4 cut or aggressive 4-5 cut, management systems.
- Maintains forage quality when harvest is delayed by management choice or weather.
StandFast Standability Advantage
- Non-StandFast® alfalfas usually begin to lodge during the bud stage when subjected to inclement weather.
- Reduce field and harvest loss.
- Protect yield and forage quality to the late flower stage of maturity.
- Adapts to harvest systems where one or more crops may be in the field to late flower.
- Stays standing when non-StandFast® products lodge when subjected to inclement wheather during bud stage or by managers choice.
- Non-GMO technology.
- Fits production zones where fall dormancy 3, 4 or 5 alfalfas are recommended.
- Medium-early maturity to late bud/early flower growth stage.
Field Appearance at Harvest Maturity
Tall, showy plants that are very upright and eye-catching
Medium green plant color with high multifoliolate leaf expression
Key Agronomic Characteristics
Fall Dormancy: 4
Winter Hardiness Rating: 2
Multifoliate Leaf Expression: 99%
Standability Rating: 8
Wisconsin Disease Rating Index: 28 of 30
Ratings are based on average performance of the variety over a wide range of climate and soil types. Actual performance may be adversely affected by extreme conditions. Unless stated, ratings are based on standardized testing procedures endorsed by the North American Alfalfa Improvement Conference.
Standability Rating: 1 = Lodged, 9 = Erect. Ratings are in relationship to check varieties at mid-flower maturity.
Lodged and downed crop means lost yield and reduced quality. PGI 437 alfalfa gives growers the potential for more harvestable yield when harvest is delayed. PGI 437 Alfalfa was developed from crossing unique, tall, fastgrowing European germplasm, screened for U.S. adaptability, onto elite U.S. fall dormancy 4 plants selected for superior yield, forage quality and persistence. The resulting alfalfas express either faster growth and/or improved standability traits and are designated as StandFast Alfalfas.
Standability is extended to late flower versus the bud stage for non-StandFast varieties. Reduced field and harvest losses, as well as improved harvest ease.
Standability protects forage quality if harvest is delayed, CP, NDFD, ADF and RFQ are equal to the best competitive alfalfas. StandFast alfalfa is a non-GMO technology with patent pending and a registered trademark.
