2004 Tall Fescue Harvest – Sumas Prairie | |||||||
Dry Matter Yield (tonnes/ha) | |||||||
Cultivar | Cut 1 May 6 |
Cut 2 June 17 |
Cut 3 July 30 |
Cut 4 Sep 16 |
Cut 5 Oct 20 |
Total | % Barcel |
BAROLEX | 4.48 | 3.24 | 1.47 | 1.88 | 1.34 | 12.41 | 111 |
BRONSON | 4.75 | 2.66 | 1.02 | 1.68 | 1.35 | 11.47 | 102 |
CARMINE | 4.98 | 2.75 | 1.13 | 1.94 | 1.42 | 12.22 | 109 |
HYKOR | 4.39 | 3.08 | 1.46 | 1.85 | 1.2 | 11.98 | 107 |
K5V66V | 4.44 | 2.63 | 0.8 | 1.49 | 1.09 | 10.52 | 94 |
KORA | 3.88 | 3.23 | 1.37 | 1.93 | 1.16 | 11.58 | 103 |
STOCKMAN | 5.77 | 2.51 | 0.66 | 1.73 | 1.01 | 11.68 | 104 |
TUSCANY | 5.17 | 2.5 | 0.98 | 1.4 | 0.96 | 11 | 98 |
UMTF | 4.57 | 3.66 | 0.8 | 1.5 | 0.75 | 11.28 | 100 |
BARCEL | 3.78 | 3 | 1.27 | 1.85 | 1.33 | 11.23 | |
Mean | 4.62 | 2.93 | 1.1 | 1.72 | 1.16 | 11.32 | |
CV | 22.7 | 15.4 | 43.5 | 18.5 | 23.8 | 13.2 | |
LSD (P | 1.14 | 0.4 | NSD* | NSD* | 0.26 | NSD* |
CV = coefficient of variation
LSD = least significant difference
Barcel was used as a check variety.
*NSD = F-tests indicate that there were no significant differences between yeilds at alpha=0.05