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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 6: |
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Alfalfa Variety Trial |
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Ohio, South Charleston, Sown 4-25-2017 |
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Total |
% Stand |
| Variety |
8-Aug |
6-Sep |
2017 |
9/18/2017 |
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Released Cultivars: |
----------------------- Tons Dry
Matter/Acre -------------------------- |
| 54QR04 |
1.25 |
1.98 |
3.25 |
91 |
| FSG 415 BR |
1.33 |
2.03 |
3.33 |
84 |
| Kingbird |
0.93 |
1.40 |
2.33 |
83 |
| Quail |
1.38 |
1.70 |
3.10 |
85 |
| Robin |
1.00 |
1.78 |
2.75 |
86 |
| WL356HQ.RR |
1.20 |
1.75 |
2.95 |
86 |
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| Mean |
1.21 |
1.77 |
2.97 |
85 |
| LSD P=.05 |
0.49 |
0.33 |
0.56 |
15 |
| Prob(F) |
0.11 ns |
0.06 |
0.02 |
0.86 ns |
| CV % |
28.2 |
12.7 |
12.9 |
13 |
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Note: Aftrer seeding in
great soil conditions, the weather turned |
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with three weeks of well below normal temperature and above average |
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rainfall that affected stands. |
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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. |
| Soil type /
analysis: |
Crosby
silt loam, pH=7.0, P=110 lbs/a, K= 344 lbs/a, CEC=13, O.M.=1.4, (04/17). |
| 2017 Pest
control: |
Insecticide was applied on 20-June, 1-July, 18-August for potato
leafhopper control. |
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