2018 Proven Performance Trials
The Nutrien Ag Solutions Field Performance Check (FPC)
and Fieldscale Retail Demonstration (FRD) programs have
been featuring varieties and collecting data since 2009 to
give producers and Nutrien Ag Solutions agronomists
local results under local conditions in a field scale format.
of excess moisture, which impacted yield significantly.
Several large wind events were recorded, making the
value of a pod shatter resistant variety apparent in those
trials.
Yield % of PV 540 G
All sites were producer-managed using field scale
equipment. All hybrids within the field were seeded
on the same date and treated with the same fertilizer,
herbicides and fungicides. Harvest timing was based on
variety maturity.
Yields were measured by weigh wagon or by yield
monitors, which were calibrated prior to harvest. 123
napus field trials and demos were seeded, in 2017.
Yield
2017 was a mixed bag across the Prairies. Precipitation
was extremely variable with areas of drought and areas
2018 Proven Performance Trials by location
TRIAL
Alberta
Balzac
Bentley
Fort Sask
Leduc
Magrath
St Paul
Stony Plain
FRD
FPC
FPC
FPC
FPC
FPC
FPC
PV 540 G
PV 560 GM
PV 540 G 28 trials
PV 591 GCS 1 trial
PV 581 GC 26 trials
PV 560 GM
19 trials
85%
90%
33.50
100%
Nutrien Ag Solutions would like to thank all the
producers who cooperated in the 2017 Proven
Performance Trials program.
Comparison of yield on 28 FPC trials using PV 540 G as the check
PV 581 GC PV 585 GC
47.72
51.98
65.50
32.40
67.60
48.20 39.83
48.41
64.00
PV 591 GCS
40.00
34.70
95%
75-42 CR 75-65 RR
30.10
45.48
52.20 25.30
64.50
34.60
66.30
50.20
70.00
51.70
FPC = Field Performance Check FRD = Fieldscale Retail Demonstrations
Manitoba
Basswood
Cypress River
Fork River
Ninga
Souris
TRIAL PV 540 G PV 560 GM PV 581 GC PV 585 GC
FRD
FPC
FRD
FRD
FPC 61.00
39.69
39.80
59.00
58.10 60.40 54.60
34.93
46.80
59.50
58.64 53.60
44.40
60.40
PV 591 GCS
75-42 CR
75-65 RR
36.52
38.80
56.82
FPC = Field Performance Check FRD = Fieldscale Retail Demonstrations
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