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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 7:
Red Clover Variety Trial
Ohio, South Charleston, Sown 4/9/2013
Total
Variety Marketers 17-Jul 7-Aug 10-Sep 2013
 --------------- Tons Dry Matter/A -------------------
RC0401* Allied Seed 1.02 1.01 1.04 3.08
FSG 402 Farm Science Genetics 0.96 0.95 1.04 2.98
Gallant The Cisco Companies 0.90 1.10 0.93 2.91
PGI 44 Producers Choice 1.08 0.83 1.02 2.91
Common red Public 0.65 0.79 1.09 2.55
Mammoth red Public 0.31 1.03 0.56 1.86
Mean 0.82 0.95 0.95 2.72
LSD 0.05 0.15 0.29 0.23 0.49
Prob > F <.0001 .22 ns <.01 <.001
CV %   12.4 20.0 16.3 12.0
* Variety tested using experimental seed that may not give performance identical to that of commercially available seed.
Note: Stand for all varieties was 100% on 9/23/13.
ns = no significant differences among varieties.
Establishment: Seeded with a Hege 3-point hitch drill with presswheels at 12 lb/a.  
Plot size: 4' x 20' , 7' alleys and borders, RCBD with four reps.
Soil type/ analysis: Crosby silt loam, pH=7.0, P=24 lbs/a, K=108 lbs/a, CEC=12.7, O.M.=1.8,(10/13).
2013 Pest control: Insecticide was applied on 18-July and 12-August for potato leafhopper control. 
Herbicide was applied on 5-June for weed control.