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Ohio Crop Performance Trials

Weather data summary for the 2018-growing season

Alfalfa Trials

Performance summary - Standard trials (insecticide applied)

Alfalfa Variety Trial - North Baltimore, Ohio - 2015 Seeding

Alfalfa Variety Trial - Wooster, Ohio - 2016 Seeding

Alfalfa Variety Trial - South Charleston, Ohio - 2017 Seeding

Annual Ryegrass Trial

Annual Ryegrass Variety Trial - South Charleston, OH - 2017 Fall Seeding

Cover Crops Trial

Cover Crop Evaluation Trial - South Charleston, OH - 2017 Seeding

Address of Marketers

Download files of yield data for 2018:

All Yield Trials - PDF for Printing

Alfalfa Yield Trials - Excel

Annual Ryegrass and Cover Crops Yield Trials - Excel

Forage Variety Trials in Other States

2018 Ohio Forage Performance Trials

Table 1:
Weather 2018
      Wooster             S. Charleston          N. Baltimore
Month Total DFA* Total DFA* Total DFA*
--------------------------------------Precipitation (inches of rainfall)--------------------------------------------
total DFA total DFA total DFA
Apr 5.36 2.06 4.73 0.73 2.20 1.10
May 4.11 0.21 2.80 -1.80 2.33 -1.07
June 3.86 -0.16 4.54 0.34 3.46 -0.14
July 4.44 0.34 3.71 -0.39 2.49 -1.31
Aug 2.31 -1.29 3.67 0.17 4.11 1.11
Sept 6.01 3.21 6.15 3.35 2.82 0.32
Total 26.09 4.37 25.60 2.40 17.41 0.01
            --------------------------------------Average Daily Temperature (°F)-------------------------------------------
Apr 43.8 -4.3 45.0 -0.6 43.0 -5.9
May 66.4 7.9 69.8 8.5 66.9 7.1
June 69.7 2.1 72.3 2.0 71.5 2.0
July 72.6 1.1 73.0 0.8 73.1 0.3
Aug 70.9 -1.3 72.9 -1.5 73.0 0.0
Sept 70.0 3.5 70.8 2.5 70.3 3.2
*DFA = departure from long-term average