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Performance of five organic barley cultivars in southwestern North Dakota 2002.
	June Biomass			July Biomass
Variety	Crop Dry Matter	Broadleaf Weed Dry Matter	Grass Weed Dry Matter	Crop Dry Matter	Broadleaf Weed Dry Matter	Grass Weed Dry Matter
	----------------------lbs/acre----------------------			------------------------lbs/acre------------------------
Conlon	1,457	8	8	3,330	22	95
Drummond	987	18	16	2,763	36	192
Lacey	1,037	16	16	3,515	24	146
Legacy	1,149	19	23	2,991	39	166
Robust	1,197	12	20	3,270	35	111
Trial Mean	1,165	15	16	3,174	31	142
C.V. %	20.1	79.6	45.1	13.1	42.9	48.9
LSD .05	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS
NS = Not Significant

Performance of five organic barley cultivars in southwestern North Dakota 2002.
Variety	Plant Counts		Vigor*	Plant Height		Kernels	Plant Height	Yield	Test Weight
	May 30	June 7		May 30	June 7
	----- plants/acre------			------inches------		no./lb	---inches---	-bu/ac-	---lbs/bu---
Conlon	1,332,912	1,185,148	1.3	3.7	5.5	11,450	18.8	47.1	42.7
Drummond	896,704	793,472	2.6	3.3	4.7	14,512	19.9	43.0	40.2
Lacey	1,196,281	1,068,758	1.9	3.7	5.2	16,013	18.8	46.8	37.3
Legacy	1,024,227	916,946	2.6	3.2	4.9	14,259	19.4	38.0	39.8
Robust	1,137,580	991,840	2.1	3.6	5.1	15,046	19.9	45.8	39.0
Trial Mean	1,117,541	991,233	2.1	3.5	5.1	14,256	19.3	44.1	39.8
C.V. %	16.3	13.8	20.8	6.3	6.0	4.8	3.7	9.1	2.6
LSD .05	280,558	210,045	0.7	0.3	0.5	1,057	NS	6.2	1.5
*1 = high vigor, 5 = low vigor at 15 days after seeding

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