2004 – 2006 Cereal Silage Harvest – Smithers
| 2004 Aug 11 |
2005 Aug 17 |
2006 Aug 2 |
3 Year | Average | |
| DM Yield in kg/ha | 2004-2006 | % of check | |||
| OATS | |||||
| Waldren | 3476 | 5191 | 3237 | 3968 | 127 |
| CDC Bell | 3446 | 5451 | 2825 | 3907 | 125 |
| CDC Baler | 2947 | 5078 | 2650 | 3558 | 114 |
| Derby | 2993 | 4233 | 2169 | 3132 | 100 |
| Morgan | 2867 | 3429 | 2278 | 2858 | 91 |
| Boyer | 2974 | 4956 | – | – | – |
| Mean | 3117 | 4723 | 2632 | 3565 | . |
| CV | 17 | 22 | 16 | 16 | . |
| LSD | 470 | NSD | 223 | 532 | . |
| BARLEY | |||||
| Ponoka | 3100 | 8157 | 2535 | 4597 | 127 |
| CDC Cowboy | 3125 | 7430 | 2784 | 4446 | 123 |
| Helgasen | 2665 | 7518 | 2016 | 4066 | 112 |
| Seebe | 2936 | 6976 | 2236 | 4049 | 112 |
| Vivar | 2305 | 6875 | 2456 | 3879 | 107 |
| Xena | 2883 | 6481 | 2115 | 3826 | 106 |
| Manny | 3169 | 5120 | 2718 | 3669 | 101 |
| AC Lacombe | 2942 | 5703 | 2214 | 3620 | 100 |
| CDC Dolly | 2933 | 6081 | 1649 | 3554 | 98 |
| Trochu | 2429 | 5449 | 2676 | 3518 | 97 |
| CDC Bold | 2211 | 6243 | 1961 | 3472 | 96 |
| Westford | 2567 | 5178 | 2050 | 3265 | 90 |
| Dillon | 2513 | 5051 | 1778 | 3114 | 86 |
| Niska | 2736 | – | – | – | – |
| FB 006 | – | 6674 | – | – | – |
| FB 414 | – | – | 3042 | – | – |
| FB 013 | – | – | 2801 | – | – |
| FB 012 | – | – | 2725 | – | – |
| FB 416 | – | – | 2795 | – | – |
| Mean | 2751 | 6353 | 2399 | 3737 | . |
| CV | 32 | 19 | 22 | 16 | . |
| LSD | NSD | 1052 | 528 | 544 | . |
Note: Maple and Parade peas were grown in mixtures with Ponoka barley in 2006, but produced little pea growth due to the 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; Derby was used as the oat check variety.
