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 Weather data summary for the 2009-growing season
 
		
        Alfalfa Trials 
		
        Performance summary – Standard trials (insecticide 
		applied) Wooster, Ohio – 2006 
		Seeding 
        Wooster, Ohio – 2007 Seeding 
		South Charleston, 
		Ohio – 2008 Seeding 
        
		North Baltimore, Ohio – 2009 
		Seeding 
        Potato Leafhopper Resistant Trials 
        
		
        South Charleston, Ohio – 2008 Seeding 
		 
		 Perennial 
        Grass Trials 
        Orchardgrass Variety Trial – South Charleston, 
		Ohio – 2006 Seeding 
        
		
        Tall Fescue Variety Trial – South Charleston, Ohio – 2008 
		Seeding 
         
        Annual 
        Grass Trials 
        Annual Ryegrass Variety Trial – South Charleston, 
Ohio – 2008 Fall Seeding
 
        
		Teff Variety Trial – South 
		Charleston, Ohio – 2009 Seeding
 Address of Marketers Download files of 
		yield data for 2009: All Yield Trials - PDF 
		for Printing Alfalfa Yield 
		Trials - Excel Perennial Grass 
		Yield Trial - Excel 
		Annual Grass Yield 
		Trial - Excel 
		
        
        Forage Variety Trials in Other States
 Forage Quality and Disease Information from 
		Wisconsin and Minnesota
 
 
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    | 2009 Ohio Forage Performance Trials
	
		
	
	
		| Table 1: |  
		| Weather 2009 |  
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		|  | Wooster | S. Charleston | N. Baltimore | Jackson |  
		| Month | Total | DFA* | Total | DFA* | Total | DFA* | Total | DFA* |  
		| --------------------------------------Precipitation (inches of 
		rainfall)-------------------------------------------- |  
		|  | total | DFA | total | DFA | total | DFA | total | DFA |  
		| Apr | 3.36 | 0.06 | 2.24 | -1.76 | 3.55 | 0.25 | 3.98 | 0.18 |  
		| May | 3.19 | -0.71 | 2.10 | -2.50 | 1.50 | -1.90 | 4.99 | 0.79 |  
		| June | 3.74 | -0.16 | 4.74 | 0.54 | 3.38 | -0.22 | 2.30 | -1.40 |  
		| July | 2.90 | -1.20 | 5.50 | 1.40 | 2.37 | -1.43 | 6.32 | 1.92 |  
		| Aug | 5.87 | 2.27 | 2.38 | -1.12 | 1.58 | -1.22 | 2.18 | -1.42 |  
		| Sept | 2.61 | -0.49 | 3.60 | 0.60 | 2.05 | -0.65 | 2.34 | -0.76 |  
		| Oct | 3.36 | 1.06 | 5.07 | 2.77 | 4.23 | 1.93 | 3.43 | 1.03 |  
		| Total | 25.03 | 0.83 | 23.39 | 1.69 | 18.66 | -3.24 | 25.54 | 0.34 |  
		|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  
		| --------------------------------------Average Daily Temperature (°F)------------------------------------------- |  
		| Apr | 50.4 | -2.3 | 51.9 | 0.9 | 51.4 | 2.5 | 53.4 | 1.0 |  
		| May | 60.3 | 1.8 | 62.9 | 1.5 | 62.8 | 3.0 | 62.5 | 0.8 |  
		| June | 67.2 | -0.4 | 70.5 | 0.2 | 71.3 | 1.8 | 40.1 | 0.2 |  
		| July | 67.5 | -4.0 | 68.7 | -5.1 | 70.9 | -1.9 | 68.9 | -4.6 |  
		| Aug | 69.6 | -0.3 | 69.7 | -2.3 | 73.6 | 3.0 | 71.0 | -1.2 |  
		| Sept | 62.6 | -0.8 | 64.4 | -0.8 | 66.9 | 2.9 | 64.8 | -0.4 |  
		| Oct | 49.1 | -3.0 | 50.4 | -3.5 | 52.5 | 0.0 | 50.4 | -3.2 |  
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		| *DFA = departure from long-term average |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |