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Tag: wheat varieties
Arkansas Wheat: Breeding Aimed at Head Scab Resistance Mar 6, 2020
Arkansas scientists are part of a national, multi-institutional research collaboration to combat Fusarium head blight, a serious agricultural disease, also known as scab, that affects wheat and barley crops all […]
Mississippi Wheat: MSU Short List of Suggested Varieties Oct 3, 2019
Mississippi State University annually conducts Variety Trials of public and private wheat and oat varieties. These variety trials were grown at seven locations in cropping regions representing all geographic areas […]
Wheat: 3 New Varieties Released from KSU Sep 6, 2019
Certified seed growers will have 3 new wheat varieties this fall. In 2020, they will be available to farmers. Kansas State University’s new releases include two hard red winter wheat […]
Kentucky Wheat: Selecting the Right Varieties Aug 30, 2019
Kentucky wheat producers have a critical decision to make at this time of year: choosing the wheat varieties that they will plant this fall. Year to year climate variability means […]
Texas Wheat: AgriLife ‘Top Picks’ Varieties Updated Aug 5, 2019
Planted wheat acres were down in 2018-2019 in the Texas Panhandle, but it was still a learning year, according to experts with the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service and Texas […]
Minnesota Wheat: New Disease-Resistant Variety Available Jun 18, 2019
The University of Minnesota (UMN) has released a new hard red spring wheat variety called ‘MN-Washburn.’ MN-Washburn features excellent straw strength and good overall disease resistance. In particular, it contains […]
Texas Wheat: 2 New Varieties Offer Good Disease Resistance Packages Apr 17, 2019
Two new wheat varieties have been announced by Texas A&M AgriLife Research and the TAM Wheat Improvement Program, according to Dr. Jackie Rudd, AgriLife Research wheat breeder at Amarillo. “We […]
New Wheat Variety is Defense Against Celiac Disease and other related conditions – Clemson Mar 7, 2019
A Clemson University researcher is using state-of-the-art facilities at the Pee Dee Research and Education Center (REC) to help develop a new wheat variety that’s safe for people who suffer […]
Oklahoma Wheat: Varietal Responses to Super Late Emergence Jan 15, 2019
Wheat that was dusted-in or late-planted during the fall 2017 and resulted in spotty stands or no stands at all from a lack of soil moisture was a frustrating and […]
Wheat Genetics Research Benefits from Texas A&M Students Dec 24, 2018
Today’s research advances in the world of wheat genetics are getting a big hand from tomorrow’s scientists, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Research scientist who has had three students […]
