UWEX Cooperative Extension - University of Wisconsin-Extension
College of Agricultural and Life Sciences Improving
Agriculture through Crop Biotechnology
Department of Agronomy Genetics and Production Research
http://www.uwex.edu/ces/forage
To: Grass breeders and members of the grass seed industry
From: Dan Undersander and Kevin Silveira
Re: Solicitation for
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This letter is a solicitation for entries for the Forage Grass Trials. This will be a Spring seeding. There will be three trials as described below:
1) Variety Trial
Location: Agricultural Research Station,
Management: Hay Production,
Data Collected: Forage yield and persistence
Duration: 3 harvest years or less if a variety does not persist until the end of the trial
Fee: $600 per entry
2) Grazing Trial
Location: Agricultural Research Station,
Management: Rotational grazing by beef cows, five or six rotations per year
Data Collected: Potential yield, palatability and persistence
Duration: 3 years or less if a variety does not persist until the end of the trial
Fee: $600 per entry
3) Annual Ryegrass Trial
Location: Agricultural Research Station,
Spooner,
Data Collected: Forage yield, persistence throughout the seeding year and at the beginning of the 2nd year
Duration: 1 year
Fee: $250 per entry
Both commercially released varieties and experimental varieties will be accepted for each trial.
Entries, seed and checks should be submitted directly to Dept. of Agronomy, 1575 Linden Drive, Madison, WI 53706-1514 (tel.: 608-262-6203, fax: 608-262-5217, e-mail: kgsilvei@wisc.edu). Entries should include a completed application form (Adobe PDF format or WORD format) , the required amount of seed, and a check for the total amount.
Please make check payable to:
All checks should be written in U.S.
Dollars and drawn on an American bank.
This application and check is due by March 1 at:
Kevin Silveira
Dept. of Agronomy