Activity Report — GLBRC Biofuel Cropping System Experiment
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This tables lists the activities and equipment used on replicate 1 of the GLBRC BCSE (Biofuel Cropping System Experiment). This table only lists one replicate since most activities are the same between replicates.
This datatable is part of the GLBRC Experiment dataset.
Baseline and general data for the GLBRC Experiments.
Note
| Experiment: | GLBRC Biofuel Cropping System Experiment |
| Data available from: | April 2008 to November 2019 |
| Dataset: | GLBRC083 |
| Datatable ID: | GLBRC083-003.101 |
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| Last Updated | 2023-10-24 |
| Variate | Description | Units |
|---|---|---|
| obs date | observation date | |
| site | study site | |
| treatment | experimental treatment | |
| observation type | type of activity performed | |
| equipment | equipment used | |
| comment | more information about activity | |
| id | observation id |
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Data Excerpt
| obs_date | site | treatment | observation_type | equipment | comment | id |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-24 | KBS | G1 | Harvest | {"John Deere 7420b Tractor (14.9 R 46 back tire size)","Loftness 15' Draper Windrower Shredder","John Deere 7520 Tractor","Krone Baler (Big Pack 1270 XC Multi-Bale)","John Deere 7420a Tractor","Truck # 1653 (White Dodge RAM 5500 with Flat Bed)","Trailer # Z424 34 ft (Gooseneck) Low-Profile with Hydraulic Dove Tail. "} | Corn Stover Harvest: Jarrod Rhoades mowed corn stover in G1 main plots: Reps 3, 2, 5, 4, & 1. Corn stover was mowed into windrows so that they could be bailed. The 6 rows (15 ft) in the west micro-plots of each rep were not mowed. Equipment Used: JD 7420a tractor and Loftness 15 ft Draper Windrower Shredder. Joe Simmons bailed corn stover with Krone 1270 square baler. Reps 2, 3, 4, 5, & 1. Equipment Used: JD 7520 tractor with Krone 1270 square baler. Ethan Rocklin removed bales from plots: Equipment Used: JD 7420(b) tractor (with loader) was used to move/load bales. Equipment Used: Dodge truck and gooseneck trailer were used to move and weigh bales. Portable scale was put on the rear of gooseneck and bales were place on scale to obtain weight. Bales were used as hunting blinds in the BCSE site. | 6825 |
| 2025-10-31 | KBS | G3 | Harvest | {"John Deere 7350 Self-propelled forage harvester/chopper","Wagon - GNUSE 12 ton Forage Wagon, Green."} | Harvest GLBRC main site treatment G3 (sorghum) and G6 (miscanthus) main plots. Equipment Used: All plots were harvested with the JD 7350 self-propelled forage harvester equipped with a JD 676 cutting head. Plant material was chopped into a Gnuse forage wagon that is fitted with load cells to determine weight of harvested biomass. Cutting height of remaining plant stubble was 4-6 inches in all reps. Grab samples from each rep was placed in paper bags weighed for wet weight and placed in plant dryer and reweighed to determine percent moisture for each replication. | 6803 |
| 2025-10-31 | KBS | G6 | Harvest | {"John Deere 7350 Self-propelled forage harvester/chopper","Wagon - GNUSE 12 ton Forage Wagon, Green."} | Harvest GLBRC main site treatment G3 (sorghum) and G6 (miscanthus) main plots. Equipment Used: All plots were harvested with the JD 7350 self-propelled forage harvester equipped with a JD 676 cutting head. Plant material was chopped into a Gnuse forage wagon that is fitted with load cells to determine weight of harvested biomass. Cutting height of remaining plant stubble was 4-6 inches in all reps. Grab samples from each rep was placed in paper bags weighed for wet weight and placed in plant dryer and reweighed to determine percent moisture for each replication. | 6803 |
| 2025-10-30 | KBS | G10 | Harvest | {"John Deere 4995 Discbine with 14'6\" cutting head","John Deere 7350 Self-propelled forage harvester/chopper","Wagon - GNUSE 12 ton Forage Wagon, Green."} | 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. | 6802 |
| 2025-10-30 | KBS | G4 | Harvest | {"John Deere 4995 Discbine with 14'6\" cutting head","John Deere 7350 Self-propelled forage harvester/chopper","Wagon - GNUSE 12 ton Forage Wagon, Green."} | 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. | 6802 |