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Ohio Crop Performance Trials

Weather data summary for the 2013-growing season

Alfalfa Trials

Performance summary – Standard trials (insecticide applied)

Wooster, Ohio – 2010 Seeding

South Charleston, Ohio – 2011 Seeding

North Baltimore, Ohio – 2012 Seeding

Wooster, Ohio – 2013 Seeding

Clover Trials

Red Clover - South Charleston, Ohio – 2013 Seeding

White Clover - South Charleston, Ohio – 2013 Seeding

Annual Grass Trials

Annual Ryegrass Variety Trial – South Charleston, Ohio – 2012 Fall Seeding

Annual Ryegrass Variety Trial – South Charleston, Ohio – 2013 Fall Seeding

Address of Marketers

Download files of yield data for 2013:

All Yield Trials - PDF for Printing

Alfalfa Yield Trials - Excel

Clover Yield Trials - Excel

Grass Yield Trials - Excel

Forage Variety Trials in Other States

Forage Quality and Disease Information from Wisconsin and Minnesota

 

2013 Ohio Forage Performance Trials

Table 1:
Weather 2013
      Wooster             S. Charleston          N. Baltimore
Month Total DFA* Total DFA* Total DFA*
   ---------------Precipitation (inches of rainfall)--------------  
total DFA total DFA total DFA
Apr 4.10 0.80 4.44 0.44 3.52 0.22
May 2.03 -1.87 2.58 -2.02 1.36 -2.04
June 5.03 1.13 4.06 -0.14 3.74 -0.14
July 6.60 1.50 5.20 1.10 8.94 5.14
Aug 1.95 -1.65 1.77 -1.73 1.44 -1.56
Sept 2.89 0.29 4.02 1.52 1.63 -0.77
Oct 3.64 1.34 3.78 1.48 6.07 3.77
Total 26.24 1.54 25.85 0.65 26.70 4.62
            ----------------Average Daily Temperature (°F)----------------
Apr 49.5 1.4 51.4 0.4 47.5 -1.4
May 62.3 3.8 64.1 2.8 64.5 4.7
June 68.1 0.5 70.2 -0.1 70.3 ,8
July 71.7 0.2 72.2 -1.6 72.5 -0.3
Aug 69.3 -0.6 70.5 -1.5 69.9 -0.7
Sept 63.6 -0.8 65.4 -0.8 64.7 -0.3
Oct 53.6 0.2 53.5 -2.2 53.7 -0.6
*DFA = departure from long-term average