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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 4: |
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Alfalfa Variety Trial |
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Ohio, North Baltimore, Sown 8-27-2015 |
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| Variety |
23-May |
20-Jul |
1-Sep |
2017** |
2016 |
% Stand |
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Released Cultivars: |
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Tons Dry Matter/Acre ---------------------- |
9/25/2017 |
| 55Q27 |
2.80 |
3.08 |
1.94 |
7.82 |
5.56 |
83 |
| 55VR06 |
2.56 |
3.18 |
1.60 |
7.33 |
4.83 |
93 |
| BlueJay HR |
2.86 |
2.80 |
1.15 |
6.82 |
4.87 |
92 |
| Caliber |
2.86 |
2.99 |
1.66 |
7.51 |
4.42 |
95 |
| Contender |
2.70 |
2.95 |
1.62 |
7.27 |
4.76 |
90 |
| Fierce |
2.84 |
3.18 |
1.77 |
7.80 |
5.05 |
92 |
| FSG 426 |
2.72 |
2.93 |
1.76 |
7.41 |
5.29 |
93 |
| Mallard 5 |
2.84 |
3.38 |
2.02 |
8.23 |
4.80 |
95 |
| Persist lll |
3.13 |
3.17 |
2.19 |
8.49 |
5.57 |
80 |
| Pluss lll |
2.62 |
3.21 |
1.49 |
7.32 |
5.24 |
93 |
| Red Falcon |
2.91 |
2.95 |
2.02 |
7.88 |
4.38 |
83 |
| Roadrunner |
2.85 |
2.99 |
1.51 |
7.35 |
5.10 |
93 |
| SW 5113 |
2.73 |
3.13 |
1.50 |
7.35 |
5.45 |
92 |
| SW 5213 |
2.79 |
3.31 |
2.03 |
8.13 |
5.82 |
95 |
| SW 5512 Y |
2.84 |
3.21 |
1.86 |
7.90 |
5.31 |
93 |
| SW 5909 |
2.72 |
2.09 |
1.68 |
6.49 |
4.60 |
93 |
| Vernal |
2.99 |
2.95 |
1.38 |
7.32 |
5.31 |
75 |
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| Mean |
2.81 |
3.03 |
1.72 |
7.55 |
5.08 |
90 |
| LSD P=.05 |
0.23 |
0.71 |
0.74 |
1.25 |
0.87 |
15 |
| Prob(F) |
0.01 |
0.24 ns |
0.36 ns |
0.23 ns |
0.05 |
0.26 ns |
| CV % |
4.9 |
14.2 |
25.8 |
10.0 |
12.1 |
10 |
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** Note only three
harvest were taken at North Baltimore in 2017 due to weather . |
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** Trial was fall seeded after spring planting failed ** |
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ns = no significant differences among varieties. |
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Establishment: |
Seeded
with a Hege 3-point hitch drill with presswheels at 16 lb/a. |
| Plot size: |
4' x 20'
, 15'alleys and borders, RCBD with four reps. |
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| Soil type /
analysis: |
Holtville silt loam, pH=6.5, P=88 lbs/a, K=286 lbs/a, CEC=17, O.M.=2.8,
(11/16). |
| 2017 Pest
control: |
Insecticide was applied on 30-May, 8-June, 8-August for potato
leafhopper control. |
| 2017
Fertility: |
300 #/A
of10-26-26 was applied on 10/31/16. |
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