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Ohio Crop Performance Trials

Weather data summary for the 2015-growing season

Alfalfa Trials

Performance summary - Standard trials (insecticide applied)

Wooster, Ohio - 2013 Seeding

South Charleston, Ohio - 2014 Seeding

North Baltimore, Ohio - 2014 Seeding

Wooster, Ohio - 2016 Seeding

Grass Trials

Orchardgrass Variety Trial - South Charleston, OH - 2014 Spring Seeding

Tall Fescue Variety Trial - South Charleston, OH - 2014 Spring Seeding

Annual Ryegrass Variety Trial - South Charleston, OH - 2015 Fall Seeding

Cover Crop Evaluation Trial - South Charleston, OH - 2015

Address of Marketers

Download files of yield data for 2016:

All Yield Trials - PDF for Printing

Alfalfa Yield Trials - Excel

Grass Yield Trials - Excel

Forage Variety Trials in Other States

Forage Quality and Disease Information from Wisconsin and Minnesota

2016 Ohio Forage Performance Trials

Table 2:
Summary of Alfalfa Variety Performance in Ohio
Standard Trials - Insecticide applied (values are yield as a percent of the trial average)
Wooster South Charleston North Baltimore Total Avg all
Variety Marketers 2013-16 2016 2014-16 2016 site-yrs site yrs
4030 Preferred Seed Company 104 4 104
55Q27 Pioneer 103 102 99 5 102
55V50 Pioneer 104 8 105
55VR06 Pioneer 103 103 4 103
55VR08 Pioneer   91     1 91
55H94 Pioneer 95 8 94
BlueJay Blue River Hybrids 99 4 99
BlueJay HR Blue River Hybrids 95 1 95
Caliber Beck's Hybrids 97 89 12 97
Contender Beck's Hybrids     99 92 8 97
DBX 303 L Doebler's PA Hybrids Inc. 105 4 105
DBX 304 HY Doebler's PA Hybrids Inc. 103 4 103
DBX 305 LH Doebler's PA Hybrids Inc. 98 4 98
DG 4210 Crop Protection Service 100 12 100
Enduro Elite The Cisco Companies     96   3 96
Fierce Beck's Hybrids 97 94 4 97
FSG 403 LR Farm Science Genetics 105 104 7 104
FSG 424 Farm Science Genetics 98 99 7 98
FSG 426 Farm Science Genetics 105 1 105
FSG 524 Farm Science Genetics 96   99   7 97
GA-497-HD Preferred Alfalfa Genetics 114 1 114
KF 406 A2 Byron Seeds 105 1 105
KF 425 HD Byron Seeds 106 1 106
L-455 HD Legacy Seed 97 98 7 98
Lightning Bolt Preferred Seed Company   98     1 98
Mallard 5 Blue River Hybrids 104 1 104
Mariner IV Allied Seed 109 7 106
Persist III Doeblers PA Hybrids 106 104 102 104 9 104
Pluss III Doeblers PA Hybrids 97 100 2 98
Prolific II Doeblers PA Hybrids 106       4 106
Red Falcon Blue River Hybrids 97 1 97
Rebound 6XT Croplan Genetics 100 1 100
Roadrunner Blue River Hybrids 102 1 102
SW 5113 S & W Seed Co. 97 1 97
SW 5213 S & W Seed Co.       115 1 115
SW5512 Y S & W Seed Co. 109 1 109
SW 5909 S & W Seed Co. 94 1 94
VERNAL Public 92 97 96 102 117 92
WL 365 HQ W-L Research    94     1 94
Trial Mean 6.34 1.85 4.99 5.08 -- --
No. site years 4 1 3 1 -- --