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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 2:
Summary of Alfalfa Variety Performance in Ohio
Standard Trials - Insecticide applied (values are yield as a percent of the trial average)
North Baltimore Wooster South Charleston Total Avg all
Variety Marketers 2015-18 2016-18 2017-18 site-yrs site -yrs
54QR04 Pioneer 106 2 106
55Q27 Pioneer 99 107 10 104
55VR06 Pioneer 97 7 102
55VR08 Pioneer 100 3 100
BlueJay HR Blue River Hybrids 95     3 95
Caliber Beck's Hybrids 97 7 97
Contender Beck's Hybrids 93 7 95
Fierce Beck's Hybrids 101 7 96
FSG 415 BR Farm Science Genetics 106 2 106
FSG 426 Farm Science Genetics 103     3 103
GA-497-HD Preferred Alfalfa Genetics 103 3 103
HybriForce-4400 Dairyland Seed Company 102 2 102
Kingbird Blue River Hybrids 99 2 99
KF 406 A2 Byron Seeds 101 3 101
KF 425 HD Byron Seeds   98   3 98
Lightning Bolt Preferred Seed Company 95 3 95
Mallard 5 Blue River Hybrids 107 3 107
Persist III Doeblers PA Hybrids 107 104 10 105
Pluss III Doeblers PA Hybrids 101 96 6 99
Quail Blue River Hybrids     96 2 96
Red Falcon Blue River Hybrids 99 3 99
Rebound 6XT Croplan Genetics 96 3 96
Roadrunner Blue River Hybrids 99 3 99
Robin Blue River Hybrids 99 2 99
SW 4107 S & W Seed Co.   102   3 102
SW 4113 S & W Seed Co. 105 3 105
SW 5113 S & W Seed Co. 103 3 103
SW 5210 S & W Seed Co. 104 3 104
SW 5213 S & W Seed Co. 110 106 6 108
SW5512 Y S & W Seed Co. 102     3 102
SW 5909 S & W Seed Co. 94 3 94
VERNAL Public 91 100 10 94
WL356 HQ.RR W-L Research  102 2 102
WL 365 HQ W-L Research    94   3 94
Trial Mean 6.18 5.42 5.33  --  --
No. site years 3 3 2  --  --