Claim · model-written summary
Moapa–Vernal blend yield was significantly lower than Vernal alone in the first harvest year.
- Taxon
- alfalfa
Medicago sativat0 - Treatment
- MoapaVernal blendse0
- Outcome
- First harvest‐year yieldse0
- Direction
- lesse0
- Comparator
- Vernal alonee0
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Verbatim
e0“First harvest‐year yields of MoapaVernal blends were significantly less than Vernal alone.”
t0“alfalfa”
Title
Performance of Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) Blends Consisting of Long‐ and Short‐Lived Varieties1
J. A. Jackobs; D. A. Miller Agronomy Journal 1973. doi:10.2134/agronj1973.00021962006500020011x
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect Adding Stride to Vernal increased first-year alfalfa yield by 1.7 mt/ha.
- Intervention effect Stride–Vernal yield did not differ significantly from Vernal alone in the second harvest year.
- Intervention effect Stride–Vernal yield was significantly less than Vernal alone in the third and fourth harvest years.
- Observation Moapa plants died during the first winter after seeding.
- Observation Second-year yield differences between Moapa–Vernal blends and Vernal alone were smaller.
- Intervention effect Blends with 33% Moapa seed yielded about the same as Vernal alone in years three and four.
- Observation After Moapa died, remaining Vernal plants formed a stand nearly as productive as Vernal alone.
- Observation After Stride died, remaining Vernal plants were less productive than Vernal alone.
- Recommendation The studied blends offered little advantage over a single well-adapted variety.