seed choice
- To: b*@pacific.net
- Subject: seed choice
- From: A* &* S* E*
- Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 09:29:08
Hi Mike-we all are in tune with and understand your decision making process
about the big question of what we should plant to help put the odds on our
side.
There are no easy answers and I think no one has the best solution.There
are just so many complex variables.
Every time we think we have the best course there are always exceptions
that just don't fit and add to the mystery of it all.
I know you would appreciate the following statistics from the 44 at 700+
official AG's in Canada this year.
* 52% were from 1997 mothers,"unproven" seed as some call them
* 18% were from the growers own AG,a high rate considering that several
plants are
usually grown
* Mothers were about evenly spread over the range from 500 pounds and on
up
* 80% were from Canadian grown mothers
* 75% were from the contest site "drawing area"
* 98% came from mothers of good previously know ancestory.One AG mother
ancestory was
uncertain yet all possibilities were of good known background.
This doesn't give you any clear cut answers but shows you what actually
happened here in 98 re AG mothers.
I will leave it to you and others to form some possible conclusions from
these facts.
All the best to you-Al E.
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