Almost 6 years ago This NAT thread interested me A revisit.

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Posted 2/5/2010 12:12 (#1059300 - in reply to #1057629)
Subject: Better read the label

I do believe 90% of all Alfalfa seed that are protected seed are owned by Forage Genetics.  A few years earlier the mood in the seed companies changed and their way of doing business has also changed. They are now less trusting of we the seed buyers.

It has been mentioned in the thread that Public Domain varieties will equal or better the Private varieties.
This is a true statement.  When Oklahoma did a lot of varsities testing their Oklahoma common did just as well as the higher cost private seed. Until a disease or pest pops up in your area.  Then a good pest resistance pays.  If this was not true then Hairy Peruvian Alfalfa would still be the hands down favorite, HERE.
Then We would be combining seed from a thin stand and make more off the seed than two years of hay off that piece of ground.  Then Apollo came into favor and put an end to seed production in the hay field.
Instead I now plant WL 354 HQ.  What will be in favor in another few years is anyone's guess. 

The early Apollo was preinoculated at the local dealer's.  Order 10 sacks of seed and receive 12 sacks of inoculated seed. 
One year I ordered an ABI variety and was charged extra for the seed had not been treated.  It was that year that I learned that raw seed would out germinate the treated seed. Instead of planting 30 lbs/A I planted 20 lbs /A and it out performed the treated seed.

Most years, what pays here is good "Pest" resistance,.

Almost 6 years ago This NAT thread interested me A revisit.