Claim · model-written summary
Adding Stride to Vernal increased first-year alfalfa yield by 1.7 mt/ha.
- Taxon
- alfalfa
Medicago sativat0 - Material
- Stridee0
- Treatment
- Inclusion of Stridee0
- Outcome
- yielde0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Value
- 1.7 mt/hae0
- Comparator
- Vernal seeded alonee0
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Verbatim
e0“Inclusion of Stride, a winter‐hardy, wilt‐susceptible variety, in a blend with Vernal increased yield 1.7 mt/ha in the 1st harvest year over Vernal seeded 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 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.
- Intervention effect Moapa–Vernal blend yield was significantly lower than Vernal alone in the first harvest year.
- 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.