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User: Peter Hudy
Created on: 2010-03-22
Observation Date 2010-03-22
Comment:
Air seeded LTER Main Site Treatment T4 with Medium Red Clover at 12 lbs/A. Clover seed was from DKB Farms & Services LLC, Columbiaville MI 48421 Lot S 80 100023 DKBCLO8: OCIA Certiified Organic Clover Lot# B1E1-2J3J4A-BJ5O108 (Member ID 11449). Clover was seeded with John Deere 5220 tractor traveling at 5.0 mph, gear C1 at 1600 rpm’s, and Gandy Air Seeder (15 ft boom length) equipped with 8 deflectors spaced 20” apart. Gandy motor setting was 1.6 and gates on the Gandy were all the way open. Boom height was 23 inches from the ground, bottom of the defectors were 20 inches from the ground. Temperature was 35'52°F, wind was northeast at 10-13 mph, relative humidity was 46%. All replicates were seeded in 18 passes across the field, replicate order was R6, R5, R3, R1, R2, and R4.
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T4
Observation Type:
Planting
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