Impacts of Improved Switchgrass and Big Bluestem Selections on Yield, Morphological Characteristics, and Biomass Quality

Table 3

Moisture concentration (%) at fall harvest of 11 selections of switchgrass and 3 selections of big bluestem at two sites in Southern Quebec.

Entry	Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue		Cookshire-Eaton
	2011	2012	2011	2012
Switchgrass
Sunburst	36.8	34.1	33.8	27.6
Blue Jacket	36.1	33.8	31.6	31.8
Blue Jacket II	35.5	35.4	32.7	30.1
Blue Jacket Early	38.1	35.2	30.1	28.0
Summer	39.7	31.9	26.1	24.4
Tecumseh	37.7	35.8	37.5	29.3
Tecumseh II	40.3	34.3	31.4	20.2
Cave-in-Rock	46.1	41.0	43.6	29.8
Cave-in-Rock II	45.8	44.5	44.9	39.6
Cave-in-Rock Early	44.1	41.8	35.5	31.6
Sandlover	49.1	44.5	38.7	34.8
Switchgrass mean	40.8	37.5	35.1	29.7
Big Bluestem
Prairie view	43.7	39.6	44.3	38.9
Prairie view II	46.8	41.0	35.6	30.9
Prairie view Early	43.8	39.0	44.0	33.7
Big bluestem mean	44.8	39.9	41.3	34.5
Overall mean	41.7	38.0	36.4	30.8
value	<0.0001	<0.0001	0.0002	0.0023
LSD (5%)	3.3	3.2	7.9	7.6