U.S. Department of Agriculture

Crops Research Division, ARS

Beltsville, Maryland November 23, 1962

REPORT OF MEETING OF

NATIONAL CERTIFIED ALFALFA VARIETY REVIEW BOARD

November 12, 1962

A. Members of the Review Board are of the opinion that the varieties listed below are distinctive and merit certification.

Experimental

Variety designation

name during testing Applicant

Progress CL-lO Caladino Farm Seeds, Inc., P.O. Box 351,

Willows, California

Sonora SW-5 Southwest Alfalfa Group. Application submitted by H. H. Schonhorst, Agronomy Dept., Univ.of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona

WL 202 Exp. 202 Waterman-Loomis Company, 1015 Chester Avenue,

Bakersfield, California

Three of seven kinds of information pertinent to certifying agencies which were requested on the application for each variety, and the information submitted by the applicants are given below_. The respective applicants should be contacted if additional information is desired.

Three Kinds of Information Requested:

1. Area of probable adaptation and primary purpose (hay, grazing, etc.) for which this variety will be used. Report States and areas within States where the variety has been tested, and proposed areas of recommendation and merchandising.

2. Procedure for maintaining stock seed, seed classes to be used, a statement as to the generations that may be certified, and any other requirements or limitations necessary to maintain varietal characteristics.

3. If this variety is accepted by official certifying agencies, when

will certified seed first be offered for sale?

Information Submitted by Applicant on the Above Points:

Progress

1."Primarily adapted to the Vernal and Ranger areas. Has been tested at the Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana and Missouri Experimental Stations and tests established in Wisconsin (5 locations) New York and Ontario Exp. Stations together with Caladino tests tn Illinois. This variety will be merchandised in Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin for use in hay production."

2. "Parental clones comprising Progress are maintained by vegetative propagation. Breeder seed is produced in northern California in field isolation (80 plus rods) established with rooted cuttings. Isolations to be inspected by the authorized Crop Improvement Association. Only Breeder seed can be used as planting stock seed to produce commercial certified seed for Progress_. As an alternative, if the occasion should arise, Breeder seed for production of commercial certified seed also may be produced from field isolations in northern California established with an equal composite of diallel crosses made by hand crossing under greenhouse conditions. The name Progress can not be used for seed produced from planting stocks other than as described above."

3. "A growers field planted with Breeder seed was inspected for certification in 1962, with final certification action dependent upon the acceptance of Progress by the National Certified Alfalfa Variety Review Board. Limited seed supplies will be offered for sale in its area of adaptation for spring planting, 1963, to selected farmers to further evaluate its performance under actual farm usage."

Sonora

1. "Sonora is adapted to the lower desert valley areas of Arizona, California, and Southern Nevada, where African was grown and where winter forage production is desired. It is being evaluated in the Midwest as a replacement for African for green manure."

2. "Breeder seed is a composite of an equal amount of seed from each of the 13 parent clones intercrossed under isolation. Seed classes will include breeder, foundation, and certified. Breeder seed will be used to establish fields for the production of foundation seed. Foundation seed will be used to establish fields for the production of certified seed. The maximum eligibility of a stand to produce a given class of seed will be 4 years_. The area of adaptation as related to seed production is that portion of the southern region south of latitude 37 north at elevations below 2500'"

3. "Fall of 1963."

WL 202

1. "From eastern Nebraska and northern Missouri north to the Canadian line and east to the Appalachian mountains as a long-lived hay or hay and pasture variety."

2. "Breeder seed is produced from rooted cuttings of the 33 parent clones grown in isolated, bee-pollinated fields. Foundation seed is the first generation grown from Breeder seed in the northern region of adaptation. Certified seed may be grown from either Breeder or Foundation seed, but only from these classes of stock seed. Seed produced from any other stock, or from certified seed will not be recognized by applicant as

WL 202."

3. "1963."