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Ohio Crop Performance Trials
Weather data summary for the 2017-growing season
Alfalfa Trials
Performance summary - Standard trials (insecticide
applied)
Alfalfa Variety Trial - South Charleston, Ohio - 2014 Seeding
Alfalfa Variety Trial - North Baltimore, Ohio - 2014 Seeding
Alfalfa Variety Trial - Wooster, Ohio - 2016 Seeding
Alfalfa Variety Trial - South Charleston, Ohio - 2017 Seeding
Annual 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 - 2016 Fall Seeding
Cover Crop Evaluation Trial - South Charleston, OH - 2016
Address of Marketers
Download files of
yield data for 2017:
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 |
2017 Ohio Forage Performance Trials
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Table 3: |
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Alfalfa Variety Trial |
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Ohio, South Charleston, Sown 5-20-2014 |
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Total |
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| Variety |
26-Jun |
27-Jul |
8-Sep |
2017** |
2016 |
2015 |
2014 |
2014-17 |
% Stand |
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Released Cultivars: |
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Tons Dry Matter/Acre ------------------------------------ |
9/18/2017 |
| 55Q27 |
1.54 |
1.29 |
1.00 |
3.84 |
7.19 |
7.06 |
1.47 |
18.59 |
78 |
| 55VR06 |
1.58 |
1.25 |
0.91 |
3.74 |
7.26 |
7.16 |
1.57 |
18.80 |
77 |
| Caliber |
1.44 |
1.14 |
0.82 |
3.40 |
6.47 |
6.84 |
1.28 |
17.13 |
68 |
| Contender |
1.40 |
1.21 |
0.86 |
3.47 |
6.15 |
6.78 |
1.48 |
17.01 |
68 |
| Enduro Elite |
1.34 |
1.12 |
0.87 |
3.33 |
6.27 |
6.68 |
1.38 |
16.82 |
70 |
| Fierce |
1.35 |
1.15 |
0.81 |
3.32 |
5.63 |
6.73 |
1.26 |
16.11 |
65 |
| FSG 403 LR |
1.45 |
1.20 |
0.85 |
3.50 |
7.45 |
7.32 |
1.63 |
19.03 |
70 |
| FSG 424 |
1.80 |
1.33 |
0.91 |
4.03 |
7.23 |
6.95 |
1.37 |
18.57 |
73 |
| FSG 524 |
1.32 |
1.20 |
0.89 |
3.41 |
6.16 |
6.61 |
1.39 |
16.72 |
72 |
| L-455 HD |
1.29 |
1.20 |
0.82 |
3.31 |
6.14 |
6.78 |
1.49 |
16.89 |
78 |
| Mariner IV |
1.44 |
1.28 |
0.95 |
3.67 |
7.16 |
7.26 |
1.68 |
18.85 |
77 |
| Persist III |
1.41 |
1.15 |
0.89 |
3.45 |
7.21 |
6.96 |
1.55 |
18.31 |
75 |
| Vernal |
1.18 |
1.04 |
0.70 |
2.92 |
5.99 |
6.34 |
1.48 |
15.99 |
73 |
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| Mean |
1.43 |
1.20 |
0.87 |
3.49 |
6.64 |
6.88 |
1.46 |
17.60 |
73 |
| LSD P=.05 |
0.44 |
0.27 |
0.21 |
0.83 |
1.21 |
0.62 |
0.24 |
2.06 |
13 |
| Prob(F) |
0.51 ns |
0.82 ns |
0.56 ns |
0.63 ns |
0.06 ns |
0.19 ns |
0.03 |
0.04 |
0.64 ns |
| CV % |
18.5 |
13.6 |
14.2 |
14.3 |
12.8 |
6.4 |
11.4 |
8.2 |
11 |
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ns = no significant differences among varieties. |
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** NOTE: May harvest (cut 1) was not taken (clipped off) due to
variability in the plots. |
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Establishment: |
Seeded
with a Hege 3-point hitch drill with presswheels at 16 lb/a. |
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| Plot size: |
4' x 20'
, 15'alleys and borders, RCBD with four reps. |
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| Soil type /
analysis: |
Crosby
silt loam, pH=6.7, P=48 lbs/a, K= 200 lbs/a, CEC=17.7, O.M.=2.9,
(11/16). |
| 2017 Pest
control: |
Insecticide was applied on 28-April for weevil contriol, and 20-June,
18-July, 21-August |
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for
potato leafhopper control. |
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| 2017
Fertility: |
500# of
0-0-60 and 200 #/A of 18-46-0 was applieed 11/2/16. |
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