Arkansas Valley Seed Solutions

A breakthrough in grass seed

TANGENT - Almost 15 years Barenbrug USA has started research to find a pasture grass that is less toxic to livestock in the middle and eastern United States

Now the producer of grass seed Tangent unveiled BarOptima PLUS E34, a tall fescue that the tests will show support for livestock production and add a new product for the producers of the Linn County grass seed.

Also announced an agreement between Barenbrug and Dow AgroSciences to market the product to farmers targeted.

"For a company that deals with face-to-face with the ranchers and farmers to promote and sell our product is very exciting," said John Thyssen, President and CEO of Barenbrug.

BarOptima is the result of the efforts of researchers Barenbrug which began in 1996. According to Devesh Singh, director of the company research, the traditional tall fescue grown along a belt stretching from North Carolina to eastern Kansas, but tolerant of climatic extremes, has been responsible for serious adverse cattle grazing, affecting body temperature and digestion.

"The endophytes live inside the plant produces a toxin harmful to livestock," said Singh.

Endophytes are fungi that protect the plant.

"They were doing their job, but harmful to cattle and other animals," said Singh.

The researchers then Barenbrug what they call "a project of hunting endophyte", examines thousands of varieties in the world to raise an herb is safe for livestock. They finally found one that did not produce the alkaloids bad Singh said caused the most trouble.They put in a number of flexible sheets fescues, BarOptima possibly come with after 10 years of testing. A feeding trial of three years began in Arkansas in 2008 before the grass was deemed ready.

The result is a new market for local producers of grass seed, according to Thyssen.

"It is designated for use in the East, but all production will happen here in the middle valley," he said.

Principals, Principles, Corn Syrup, Taxes & Watermelons - a Diary ...

As a courtesy warning, if you have no interest in what happens east of Greeley, Limon or Pueblo, this diary is long and not likely for you.  On Friday, October 29 Pols front-paged an article posing the question of whether the Republican's will take the majority in the Senate.  Absent was any mention of the race between Senator Greg Brophy, Assistant Minority Leader and myself.  For anyone interested in this race, and with all due respect to David whom I've successfully ignored for nine months (and he would add, "to my peril"), here is my story:

I'm one of two men from Wray, Colorado vying for the honor to serve Senate District 1 for the next four years.  This diary is my observation of the landscape and its inhabitants that occupy the twelve eastern counties that make up SD1; a landscape twice the size of the state of Massachusetts, home to 42 of the state's 178 public school districts and three community colleges; 13 hospital districts, two state-owned correction facilities and one privately-owned correctional facility. Agricultural production, water, wind and natural gas are the mainstays to this land of pioneer's descendants. Four large-scale wind farms dot the landscape; two  major ethanol plants turn a portion of the regional corn supply into fuel.  Cattle outnumber the residents 6:1

It's a place my family has called home for five generations.

Nearly nine months ago I began my journey as the Democratic candidate for SD1; my first run at an elected office in a district that has a 51R/27U/22D voter profile.  A lifelong Republican who at the age of 50 left my party - or to be more precise, came to the conclusion my party had left me.  It was a death of a thousand cuts.   I have no regrets about leaving the GOP.  I'm a centrist and there was no longer room at their table for people like me.  I'm old enough to remember Ronald Reagan.  Even he couldn't pass the sniff test of today's party leaders.

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