2004 – 2006 Cereal Silage Harvest – Mapes
| 2004 Aug 17 |
2005 Aug 18 |
2006 Aug 1 |
3 Year Average | ||
| DM Yield in kg/ha | 2004-2006 | % of check | |||
| OATS | |||||
| Boyer | 5351 | 5511 | – | – | – |
| CDC Baler | 4446+ | 5394 | 5727 | 5189 | 119 |
| CDC Bell | 2958+ | 6978 | 4674 | 4870 | 112 |
| Waldren | 5035+ | 4028 | 5238 | 4767 | 109 |
| Morgan | 6469 | 3384 | 4125 | 4659 | 107 |
| Derby | 5618 | 3486 | 3958 | 4354 | 100 |
| Mean | 4980 | 4797 | 4745 | 4879 | . |
| CV | 33 | 34 | 18 | 15 | . |
| LSD | NSD | 1635 | 901 | NSD | . |
| BARLEY | |||||
| Seebe | 7346 | 10,007 | 4467 | 7273 | 102 |
| AC Lacombe | 8035 | 8854 | 4536 | 7142 | 100 |
| Vivar | 8244 | 8688 | 4203 | 7045 | 99 |
| Helgasen | 7986 | 8834 | 4131 | 6984 | 98 |
| Manny | 7331 | 8791 | 4044 | 6722 | 94 |
| Xena | 7489 | 8514 | 3867 | 6623 | 93 |
| Ponoka | 6256 | 8088 | 4771 | 6372 | 89 |
| CDC Dolly | 7364 | 7785 | 3660 | 6270 | 88 |
| CDC Bold | 5191 | 9470 | 3776 | 6146 | 86 |
| CDC Cowboy | 6479 | 7199 | 4540 | 6073 | 85 |
| Trochu | 7424 | 7329 | 2726 | 5826 | 82 |
| Dillon | 5968 | 7259 | 3216 | 5481 | 77 |
| Westford | 5714 | 6633 | 2955 | 5101 | 71 |
| Niska | 7363 | – | – | – | – |
| FB 006 | – | 6567 | – | – | – |
| FB 414 | – | – | 5203 | – | – |
| FB 013 | – | – | 4783 | – | – |
| FB 012 | – | – | 4323 | – | – |
| FB 416 | – | – | 3456 | – | – |
| Mean | 7014 | 8144 | 4043 | 6388 | . |
| CV | 17 | 17 | 22 | 13 | . |
| LSD | 1214 | 1483 | 1030 | 850 | . |
+ Yield reduced by significant lodging.
Note: Maple and Parade peas were grown in mixtures with Ponoka barley in 2006, but produced little growth due to drought conditions.
CV = Coefficient of variation
LSD = Least significant difference
NSD = F tests indicate that there were no significant differences between variety yields at alpha = 0.05
AC Lacombe was used as the barley check variety and Derby was used as the check variety for oats.
