University of Illinois Department of Crop Sciences at Urbana-Champaign Variety Testing South Race Street fax

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1 University of Illinois Department of Crop Sciences at Urbana-Champaign Variety Testing South Race Street fax Urbana, IL To: From: Re: Alfalfa Breeders and Merchants ( you ) Darin Joos, Senior Research Specialist The University of Illinois Alfalfa Variety Trials The University of Illinois believe it is important to have current performance information available to the farmers of Illinois. The Alfalfa Variety Trials will assist you in evaluating genetic materials over different environments, in comparing your varieties with others, and as an educational tool as you introduce new varieties to farmers. Performance reports issued by this program are generally regarded as the premier source of objective third party information on forage varieties in Illinois. Your continued participation will ensure the newest and best varieties are compared in these trials. Use the enclosed application to enter varieties into the 2012 Illinois Alfalfa Variety Trials. Alfalfa variety trials will be seeded at one location in 2012 by the University s Department of Crop Sciences. These trials are established to provide an opportunity for testing both commercial and experimental alfalfa varieties. The testing fee is $450 per entry per location. The 2012 seeding location will be Urbana (see map). Please visit our website ( for an electronic copy of this form that you can complete and submit by . Again this year we will offer a no-insecticide trial. All aspects of the trial will be identical to our regular trial except no insecticides will be applied. There is a separate application labeled NO INSECTICIDES attached. If you are entering varieties that you do not market, please provide the information requested about the marketer of each variety. You may list multiple varieties under one address for your convenience. Also please indicate who should get the results, either you or both, by checking the appropriate box. NAAIC has provided a website for companies to enter the name, disease and fall dormancy rating of their varieties. This site will save you time and allow each state to use the same varietal information. Please visit The spring seeding will be located on the Crop Sciences Research & Education Center near the Urbana campus, which serves as a good location in terms of frequent observation. It is also a productive location, with high yields quite common. The longest continuous records of alfalfa variety evaluations in Illinois exist here. This location serves a large area in Central Illinois in which there are producers of cash hay, beef cow-calf, dairy, and pleasure horse stable operators. Commercial and experimental entries will be seeded in the spring or, if weather does not permit, in the late summer planting period. Plots will be 20 feet long and consist of five 6" rows. There will be four replications. Herbicides will be used to control weeds. Entries will be clipped once in the seeding year before any yields are taken. All plots will be harvested for three years beyond the seeding year (four harvests are expected per year at each location) unless stands are depleted sooner. Seed for COMMERCIAL VARIETIES must be obtained from commercially available sources. We will participate in the North American Alfalfa Improvement Conference seed distribution system, under which the University of Wisconsin [Dr. Dan Undersander ( )] will provide us with seed of commercial varieties. If seed of your commercial variety is not available via the University of Wisconsin program, call our office by March 1 and we will make arrangements for a seed sample to be obtained locally. EXPERIMENTAL VARIETIES will be tested and identified as such in the final report. Since seed of these will not be available through the NAAIC program, you will need to send us seed of each experimental line. Results will be published for all entries, and names of varieties listed as they appear on the NAAIC webpage, unless the seed company contacts us with changes. Data from an experimental line will not be added to the data of a commercial variety derived from that experimental line.

2 Please send 100 grams of seed for each location. We need to receive this seed by March 1. All seed should be treated with a fungicide by each company. We will not treat any seed with a fungicide. Seed will be inoculated with Rhizobium prior to planting. The University will use good faith efforts to plant, harvest and calculate the results of every entry accepted; however, the University shall not be liable for loss of crop or data unless caused by the University s gross negligence or intentional misconduct. In no event shall the University be liable to refund any testing fees paid. THE UNIVERSITY EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTY RIGHTS IN CONNECTION WITH THE RESULTS PROVIDED TO YOU UNDER THIS AGREEMENT. Nothing in this Agreement grants to University any intellectual property rights in the seeds you provide to us under this Agreement. Except for the approved uses noted in the attached Copyright/Advertising Policy, the Alfalfa Breeders and Merchants shall not use the name of the University in any form of advertising or publicity without the express written permission of the University. Such permission shall be obtained from University by submitting the proposed use, well in advance of any deadline, to the Associate Chancellor for Public Affairs, University of Illinois, Third Floor Swanlund Administration Building, 601 East John Street, Champaign, IL 61820; fax (217) Forage Seeding Location

3 2012 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS ALFALFA VARIETY TRIALS Please this application by March 1, 2012 to Signature below constitutes acceptance of the terms noted within the application. COMPANY INDIVIDUAL Please mark an "X" where each variety is to be entered: Variety Name Type* Urbana No. Of Entries = x $450.00= * Please mark each entry as one of the following types: A: Commercial variety from common seed stock: We will request seed for these varieties from the University of Wisconsin. B: Commercial variety from local source: The company should contact us to help locate a local source of seed for the varieties that are not available from the University of Wisconsin. C: Experimental variety: Companies will need to send us seed of these varieties using the address below. Please provide 100 grams of seed for each variety per location.. PLEASE SEND FORM, PAYMENT AND SEED BY MARCH 1, 2012 to appropriate address below. Make the check payable to the UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. Payment and signed forms Seed Julie Price Darin Joos Department of Crop Sciences Variety Testing AW-101 Turner Hall 2711 South Race St 1102 South Goodwin Ave Urbana, IL Urbana, IL We will not treat any seed with fungicide. Please send treated seed for each entry, experimental or commercial, if so desired. Signature:

4 ALFALFA MARKETER INFORMATION If varieties entered by your company are marketed by another company, please provide the following: Variety(s) Marketer Name Address City ST Zip Phone Who get results: Entrant Marketer Both Other (please provide) 2012 ALFALFA DISEASE RATINGS AND FALL DORMANCY Has the information below been entered on the NAAIC web site? Please check one: Yes No (If No, please fill out the table below for each variety not on the NAAIC website.) Enter the appropriate rating in each column: VARIETY FD* WS** BW VW FW AN PRR PA SN APH 1 APH 2 NR LH These ratings will be included with the final publication of results. % Enter the appropriate Resistance Resistance Resistant Class for the following: Class Plants *Fall Dormancy Rating FD = Fall Dormancy * HR =High Resistance >50 1 = Maverick WS = Winter Survival** R =Resistant = Vernal BW= Bacterial Wilt MR =Medium Resistance = 5246 VW =Verticillium Wilt LR = Low Resistance = Legend FW = Fusarium Wilt S =Susceptible = Archer AN = Anthracnose ND =Not Determined 6 = ABI 700 PRR = Phytophthora Root Rot 7 = Dona Ana PA = Pea Aphid 8 = Pierce SN = Stem Nematode **Winter Survival Ratings 9 = CUF 101 APH 1 = Aphanomyces Race 1 Category Check Variety Score APH 2 = Aphanomyces Race NRN = Northern Root Knot Nematode Superior ZG LH = Leafhopper Very Good Good WL325HQ 3 Moderate G Low Archer 5 Non Winter hardy Cuf 101 6

5 2012 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS ALFALFA VARIETY TRIALS NO INSECTICIDES Please this application by March 1, 2012 to COMPANY INDIVIDUAL Please mark an "X" where each variety is to be entered: Variety Name Type* Urbana No. Of Entries = x $450.00= * Please mark each entry as one of the following types: A: Commercial variety from common seed stock: We will request seed for these varieties from the University of Wisconsin. B: Commercial variety from local source: The company should contact us to help locate a local source of seed for the varieties that are not available from the University of Wisconsin. C: Experimental variety: Companies will need to send us seed of these varieties using the address below. Please provide 100 grams of seed for each variety per location. PLEASE SEND FORM, PAYMENT AND SEED BY MARCH 1, 2012 to appropriate address below. Make the check payable to the UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. Payment and signed forms Seed Julie Price Darin Joos Department of Crop Sciences Variety Testing AW-101 Turner Hall 2711 South Race St 1102 South Goodwin Ave Urbana, IL Urbana, IL We will not treat any seed with fungicide. Please send treated seed for each entry, experimental or commercial, if so desired. Signature:

6 ALFALFA MARKETER INFORMATION If varieties entered by your company are marketed by another company, please provide the following: Variety(s) Marketer Name Address City ST Zip Phone Who get results: Entrant Marketer Both Other (please provide) 2012 ALFALFA DISEASE RATINGS AND FALL DORMANCY Has the information below been entered on the NAAIC web site? Please check one: Yes No (If No, please fill out the table below for each variety not on the NAAIC website.) Enter the appropriate rating in each column: VARIETY FD* WS** BW VW FW AN PRR PA SN APH 1 APH 2 NR LH These ratings will be included with the final publication of results. % Enter the appropriate Resistance Resistance Resistant Class for the following: Class Plants *Fall Dormancy Rating FD = Fall Dormancy * HR =High Resistance >50 1 = Maverick WS = Winter Survival** R =Resistant = Vernal BW= Bacterial Wilt MR =Medium Resistance = 5246 VW =Verticillium Wilt LR = Low Resistance = Legend FW = Fusarium Wilt S =Susceptible = Archer AN = Anthracnose ND =Not Determined 6 = ABI 700 PRR = Phytophthora Root Rot 7 = Dona Ana PA = Pea Aphid 8 = Pierce SN = Stem Nematode **Winter Survival Ratings 9 = CUF 101 APH 1 = Aphanomyces Race 1 Category Check Variety Score APH 2 = Aphanomyces Race NRN = Northern Root Knot Nematode Superior ZG LH = Leafhopper Very Good Good WL325HQ 3 Moderate G Low Archer 5 Non Winter hardy Cuf 101 6

7 Dear Entrant of the University of Illinois Crop Testing Programs: The Crop Testing Programs Copyright / Advertising Policy described here have several objectives, including: Proper use of the University of Illinois s name Proper use of the data Fairness to all companies Reasonable procedures The advertising policy is designed to encourage use of the data in a fair and uniform manner. Proper reference of the bulletin will be required to accompany any advertisement, with a disclaimer included in the ad. Copyright/Advertising Policy This information, protected by copyright, is presented under authority granted the University of Illinois to conduct performance trials, including interpretation of data to the public, and does not imply endorsement or recommendation by the University of Illinois. Performance data may be used in the following ways: 1) Permission is granted to reproduce the tables in their entirety provided the source is referenced and data are not manipulated or reinterpreted; 2) Advertising statements by an individual company about the performance of its entries can be made as long as they are accurate statements about the data as published, with no reference to other companies name or cultivars. For both cases mentioned above the following must be included with the reprint or ad: See the official University of Illinois, Department of Crop Sciences results in bulletin CROP Variety Test Results in Illinois ', 2010-## or at the website vt.cropsci.illinois.edu. Endorsement or recommendation by the University of Illinois is not implied. Some examples of possible ads follow. Example 1: Company variety had the highest regional yield (60.0 bu/a)* in the Region 1 trial. Example 2: Company had the #1, 3 & 5 ranked regional yield* among cultivars entered in the Region 1 trial. Example 3: Company variety yielded 60.0 bu/a* in the Region 1 trial, which is significantly better than the trial average of 53.0 bu/a at the 25% L.S.D. level. [With the following to appear after each such advertising statement:] *See the official University of Illinois, Department of Crop Sciences results in bulletin CROP Variety Test Results in Illinois ', 2012-## or at the website Endorsement or recommendation by the University of Illinois is not implied. Our goal is to create an environment that will encourage companies to freely enter varieties without fear of negative advertising, this should benefit all involved. Please pass this information on to those promoting your companies cultivars. Abuses will result in action to prevent the problem from occurring in the future Publication List: Wheat Performance in Illinois Trials , Forage Crop Variety Trials in Illinois , Corn Hybrid Test Results in Illinois , Soybean Variety Test Results in Illinois ,