Offered Papers Theme C: Delivering the Benefits from Grassland
Description
Experiment station trials provide forage crop mean yields and standard deviations (SD) useful in evaluating risk in forage production (Rayburn, 2003). However, in the northeast USA many of these sites are on valley soils atypical of hill-farms in the Appalachian Mountains. This study used on-farm and experiment station research to evaluate the variability of forage yield across a range of soils. This information was used in stochastic budgets to evaluate the economic risks in forage production on soils differing in yield potential.
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On-Farm Research to Improve the Measure of Variability of Forage Production Across the Landscape for Evaluating Economic Risk in Forage-Based Enterprises
Experiment station trials provide forage crop mean yields and standard deviations (SD) useful in evaluating risk in forage production (Rayburn, 2003). However, in the northeast USA many of these sites are on valley soils atypical of hill-farms in the Appalachian Mountains. This study used on-farm and experiment station research to evaluate the variability of forage yield across a range of soils. This information was used in stochastic budgets to evaluate the economic risks in forage production on soils differing in yield potential.
