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User: Joe Simmons

Created on: 2025-10-30

Observation Date 2025-10-30

Comment:
Harvested biomass in G4, G5, G7, G9, and G10 plots, all reps. Harvested the main-plot area. Wet grab samples were collected and placed in the Grieve plant drier to determine percent moisture in the biomass. 2023 and 2024 were the first two years that all the biomass was mowed with the JD discbine and chopped with the JD self-propelled chopper equipped with a 'hay (biomass) pick-up head'. In past years the biomass was 'direct' cut with the JD selp-propelled chopper equipped with 'kemper' direct harvesting head. See notes relating to the harvesting equipment heads under the JD 7350 sel-propelled harvester 'chopper'. In 2025 the 7350 self-propelled forage harvester/chopper was equipped with a JD 630B Windrow Pickup Head with Finger Auger, 3.0 Meter (9.8 ft) Wide. Biomass was chopped in to the GNUSE 12 ton forage wagon. The GNUSE wagon is equipped with load cells so that it can weigh biomass in the field directly on the wagon. G7R3 was mowed west to east to determine if mowing the plot perpendicular would pick up more lodged biomass than mowing it North to South. Mowing west to east did not help pick-up more of the lodged biomass so the remaining replications were all mowed going north to south.

Areas:
G10 G4 G5 G7 G9

Observation Type:
Harvest

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