Publication Guidelines, Spring Cereal Performance Data

Ontario Cereal Crops Committee



The Ontario Cereal Crops Committee encourages the publication of the complete data from the spring cereal performance tests. This includes the complete tables, including footnotes, for yield, varietal characteristics and fusarium reaction as they appear in the "Ontario Spring Cereal Performance Trials" or on the website:
 
http://www.gocereals.ca
 
Guidelines:
-Whenever OCCC spring cereal performance data are used, credit to the Ontario Cereal Crops Committee must be stated and direction given to the official OCCC data set at:
 
http://www.gocereals.ca
 
OCCC will permit publication of specific subsets of data. The following data may be excluded from publication:
 
            "Complete tables (yield, varietal characteristics, fusarium reaction)
 
             "Data on all entries within a quality class within a table. When one or more classes of wheat are excluded from a table, the means of the entire test and the number of entries  and locations in the entire test (including the excluded classes) must be included in the table. All table footnotes, as they appear on the Infosheet, must be included.
 
"The following columns may be excluded from the varietal characteristics table for all varieties presented:
                        -TKW
                        -Height
            -disease reaction columns. All disease reaction columns may be excluded as a set.
                         Exclusion of individual columns showing reaction to specific diseases is not acceptable.
 
 
Permission to publish OCCC performance testing data must be granted before publication. To obtain permission, contact:
 
Ms. Ellen Sparry
OCCC Performance Testing Coordinator
C&M Seeds - Genetics Manager
6180 5th Line
Palmerston, ON, N0G 2P0
tel: 519-343-2126
esparry@redwheat.com

rev. 28/8/08