Kenaf Seed Supply USA Choosing The Right-Seed
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Having a sufficient kenaf seed supply usa and picking the right-seed can be tricky since kenaf seed comes in many varieties. So how do you go about choosing the Right-Seed for you? Knowing what you will do with your harvest, your choices will be one of the varieties types we have selected based on your latitude/location for optimal fiber/core and seed yields.
Our online Kenaf Seed Catalog page will cover each of our tested and available varieties once our seed supply becomes available.
The right seed for you will be based on one of the following 3 types. These types are Early Maturing (60-70 days), Medium Maturing (90 days) or Late Maturing (120 days). Although kenaf varieties can be grown for fiber and wood most anywhere, we feel it is important to be able to harvest your own seed from your own growing operation so you can plant additional acres each year until you reach your capacity.
Our Early variety NH-1 is ideally suited for production between latitudes of 40°-45° N or S they will flower very early (60 to 80 days) and produce seed within the growing seasons there.
Our Medium variety Whitten is ideally suited for production between latitudes of 30°-40° N or S they will flower (90 days) and produce seed within the growing seasons there.
Our Late variety Togo is ideally suited for production between latitudes of 20°-30° N or S they will flower (120 days) and produce seed within the growing seasons there.
When choosing the right seed for seed supply you will need to understand 2 things. One is the planting date when your ground temperatures are at least 60 degrees F (ideally 72F) and two, no unusual risk of frost for planning your harvest date range. Here is a guide to help you with your harvest date planning: Frost Dates
We are initiating research in advanced seed production technology to address the increasing demand for kenaf seed. The above tested varieties will be used in our research and are expected to meet the high standards we have set on behalf of our hard-working farmers.
Kenaf Seed Supply USA
Here in the good ole USA we need to have kenaf seed produced for seed supply for a number of reasons.
One reason is there is not enough kenaf seed supply in the world (only 700,000 tons) to supply our commercial corn, soy and cotton farmers in the U.S. as a rotational cash crop. Seed supply goal is to reach 11% of the acres in the US as a rotational cash crop to these farmers.
All kenaf grown in the U.S. as far as I know and at this time, comes from imported seed and extra seed is not available from current U.S. growers. This why it is vital that we have a kenaf seed supply produced in the good ole USA. I believe this is where we need to start so we have a growing supply of seed we can depend on.