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Atomic
ALFALFA

High forage yield

Outstanding disease resistance

Excellent stand persistance

Rapid regrowth

Widely adapted

Widely tested

High Quality Seed

Atomic is a high yielding, tap-rooted alfalfa variety. It yielded 103 percent of Beaver in prairie trials.

Atomic is highly resistant to bacterial wilt, fusarium wilt and phytophthora root rot; and is resistant to verticillium wilt and anthracnose.

Atomic has good stand persistence, yielding an average of 113 percent of Beaver in the third production year of prairie trials.

Atomic has a fall dormancy rating of 3.8 producing vigorous regrowth in spring.

Atomic is well adapted to a multi-cut management system.

Atomic seed is produced through the high quality Johnson Seeds production and processing system.

Western Forage Trial Yield Summary - Manitoba, Saskatchewan & Alberta

Variety

Yield as % of Beaver

Variety

Yield as % of Beaver

Name	Year 1	Year 2	Year 3	Average	Name	Year 1	Year 2	Year 3	Average
All sites					Manitoba
Atomic	93	102	111	103	Atomic	100	102	104	102
AC Grazeland	94	101	105	100	AC Grazeland	94	96	109	98
Beaver	100	100	100	100	Beaver	100	100	100	100
Magnum III Wet	93	98	103	98	Magnum III Wet	96	99	118	103
Rambler	92	91	88	90	Rambler	90	93	92	92
Saskatchewan					Alberta
Atomic	90	93	112	98	Atomic	93	111	113	107
AC Grazeland	96	105	109	103	AC Grazeland	89	100	97	96
Beaver	100	100	100	100	Beaver	100	100	100	100
Magnum III Wet	90	96	103	97	Magnum III Wet	97	98	95	96
Rambler	93	87	93	91	Rambler	94	92	84	89

Two Year Alfalfa Variety Forage Yield Trial Summary, Arborg , MB 2002 & 2003

	Two Year	Total Dry Matter Yield
Variety	Average Yield	(tons/acre)

Name	(% Algonquin)	Average	2002	2003
Atomic	107	4.07	4.78	3.36
Algonquin	100	3.81	4.73	2.89
Apica	100	3.80	4.83	2.78
Multiking	102	3.90	4.64	3.16
OAC Minto	108	4.12	5.03	3.22

Disease Reaction*

	Bacterial	Verticilium	Phytophthora	Fusarium	Anthracnose	Aphanomyces
Variety	Wilt	Wilt	Root Rot	Wilt	(Race 1)	Root Rot
Atomic	HR	R	HR	HR	R	MR
AC Grazeland	R	S	-	-	-	-
Algonquin	R	S	-	-	-	-
Apica	R	S	S	S	-	-
Magnum III Wet	R	MR	R	-	MR	-
Multiking	HR	R	R	HR	R	R
OAC Minto	R	S	S	-	-	-

* The disease reaction of the alfalfa cultivars are classified as follows: HR = highly resistant, R = resistant, MR = moderately resistant, S = susceptible

For More information about Atomic phone, fax, write, or email us at the address below.

JOHNSON SEEDS P.O. Box 3000
Arborg, MB R0C 0A0 ph. (204) 376-3103 fax (204) 376-2201 email: Johnson Seeds
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