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Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) cultivars mean annual forage yield (US Ton ac-1) from Northeast USA and Ontario (Canada) from 1995 to 2013

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posted on 2024-02-15, 19:34 authored by Valentin PicassoValentin Picasso, Dan Undersander

Database of forage yield for 679 alfalfa cultivars from 1060 public trials conducted between 1995 and 2013, comprising 86 locations in 11 US states (Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin) and one Canadian province (Ontario). Includes 28,070 observations, with an observation defined as a cultivar total annual forage yield mean across three to eight replicates per trial-year. Dataset includes Years 1 (establishment year) through 4 to 6 (depending on location and year).

Data was compiled by Prof. Dan Undersander at University of Wisconsin - Madison. Data was generated by forage researchers at each institution. For details on how the data was generated (plot size, management, number of replicates, etc.) see publications from each individual institution.

More information about the individual alfalfa breeding programs can be found at their program web sites:

University of Wisconsin – Madison: https://fyi.extension.wisc.edu/forages/forage-variety-trial-results/ University of Minnesota: https://www.maes.umn.edu/publications/field-crop-trials/alfalfa Iowa State University: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=2854&context=farms_reports Purdue University: https://www.agry.purdue.edu/ext/forages/variety.htm Cornell University: https://plbrgen.cals.cornell.edu/research-extension/forage-project/ny-forage-yield-results/ Ohio State University: https://www.oardc.ohio-state.edu/forage2018/ Univ of Illinois: http://vt.cropsci.illinois.edu/forage.html Kansas State University: https://www.agronomy.k-state.edu/services/crop-performance-tests/alfalfa/index.html Michigan State University: https://forage.msu.edu/publications/ Univ of Nebraska: https://cropwatch.unl.edu/forages/varietygenetics Penn State Univ: https://extension.psu.edu/forage-variety-trials-reports Ontario Canda: https://www.plant.uoguelph.ca/forages/goforages-forage-variety-trials


Resources in this dataset:

  • Resource Title: Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) cultivars mean annual forage yield (US Ton ac-1) from Northeast USA and Ontario (Canada) from 1995 to 2013.

    File Name: ALFALFA-NAL.xlsx


  • Resource Title: Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) cultivars mean annual forage yield (US Ton ac-1) from Northeast USA and Ontario (Canada) from 1995 to 2013 Data Dictionary.

    File Name: ALFALFA-NAL-DataDictionary.csv


  • Resource Title: DATA.

    File Name: DATA.csv


  • Resource Title: TRIALS.

    File Name: TRIALS.csv


  • Resource Title: GeoJSON.

    File Name: AlfalfaCultivarsGeoJSON.json

Funding

University of Wisconsin-Madison: WIS01986

History

Data contact name

Picasso, Valentin D.

Data contact email

picassorisso@wisc.edu

Publisher

Ag Data Commons

Intended use

Used for studying trends of forage yields over time, impacts of climate variability and location on productivity, resilience and stability to climate variability.

Use limitations

Quality of the data generation was not checked. For specific purposes it is recommended to contact the researchers who generated the data at each location.

Temporal Extent Start Date

1995-01-01

Temporal Extent End Date

2013-12-31

Theme

  • Not specified

Geographic Coverage

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ISO Topic Category

  • environment
  • farming

National Agricultural Library Thesaurus terms

forage yield; alfalfa; cultivars; Iowa; Illinois; Indiana; Kansas; Michigan; Minnesota; Nebraska; New York; Ohio; Pennsylvania; Wisconsin; Ontario; Medicago sativa; disease resistance

Pending citation

  • No

Public Access Level

  • Public

Preferred dataset citation

Picasso, Valentin D.; Undersander, Dan (2019). Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) cultivars mean annual forage yield (US Ton ac-1) from Northeast USA and Ontario (Canada) from 1995 to 2013. Ag Data Commons. https://doi.org/10.15482/USDA.ADC/1504130

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    Keywords

    forage yieldalfalfacultivarsIowaIllinoisIndianaKansasMichiganMinnesotaNebraskaNew YorkOhioPennsylvaniaWisconsinOntarioMedicago sativadisease resistance

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    U.S. Public Domain

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