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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 4: |  
		| Alfalfa Variety Trial |  
		| Ohio, 
		Wooster, Sown 4-23-2007 |  
		|  |  |  |  |  | Total | Reltive |  
		| Variety | 26-May | 29-Jun | 3-Aug | 8-Sep | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2007-09 | Yield |  
		| Released Cultivars: | -----------------------------Tons 
		Dry Matter/Acre --------------------------------- | % mean |  
		| 55V48 | 2.62 | 2.45 | 2.27 | 2.07 | 9.46 | 8.53 | 2.37 | 20.27 | 104 |  
		| 6400 HT | 2.70 | 2.34 | 2.05 | 2.03 | 9.16 | 8.60 | 2.29 | 19.78 | 102 |  
		| Anchormate | 2.73 | 2.01 | 2.07 | 1.95 | 8.74 | 8.48 | 2.26 | 19.60 | 101 |  
		| 54V46 | 2.46 | 2.26 | 2.08 | 1.93 | 8.70 | 8.15 | 2.23 | 19.35 | 100 |  
		| 6415 | 2.53 | 2.29 | 2.06 | 2.00 | 8.84 | 8.28 | 2.39 | 19.32 | 100 |  
		| A 5225 | 2.57 | 2.21 | 2.10 | 1.87 | 8.75 | 8.26 | 2.20 | 19.18 | 99 |  
		| Vernal | 2.70 | 2.06 | 1.96 | 1.96 | 8.82 | 7.95 | 2.43 | 19.00 | 98 |  
		| WL 343 HQ | 2.63 | 2.15 | 1.96 | 1.85 | 8.52 | 8.04 | 2.08 | 18.85 | 97 |  
		|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  
		| Mean | 2.61 | 2.22 | 2.08 | 1.96 | 8.86 | 8.28 | 2.26 | 19.41 | -- |  
		| LSD 0.05 | 0.14 | 0.19 | ns | ns | ns | 0.39 | ns | ns | -- |  
		| CV % | 3.63 | 5.93 | 8.13 | 4.84 | 4.24 | 3.22 | 10.60 | 3.25 | -- |  
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		| ns = no significant difference among varieties |  |  |  |  |  |  |  
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		| Data subjected to Nearest Neighbor AOV, adjusted means reported. |  |  |  |  |  
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		| Establishment: | Seeded with a 
		Hege 3-point hitch drill with presswheels at 16 lb/a. |  |  
		|  | Eptam applied 
		PPI at 2 qt/a. |  |  |  |  |  |  
		| Plot size: | 4' x 20', 15' 
		alleys and borders, RCBD with four reps. |  |  |  |  
		| Soil type / 
		analysis: | Riddles silt loam, pH = 6.5, P =76 lb/a, K = 176 lb/a, CEC = 7.8 
		(10/09). |  |  
		| 2009 Pest 
		control: | Insecticide 
		was applied 10-June, 13-July & 14-August for potato leafhopper control. |  |  |