WB4792 (CSO)

This is our number 1 wheat for the three year average. It is a medium late maturity, with the best straw strength I have seen in a dryland wheat, has good tolerance to wheat streak mosaic virus, and good resistance to rust. It is very upright in its plant growth, with a large head set, and medium on tillering. We have seen this wheat now in just about every scenario that can happen and it always performs. As it moved up into northwest Kansas we did see some damage to the tillers in the April freeze event. As far as a seeding rate goes, I love the fact that I have cut my highest yield ever on a quarter at a 430,000 population, but in our seeding rate studies we have seen it performs all the way up to a 1,000,000 population. This is nice because you don’t have to babysit it with a low population on a year like last year where if you are planting and it may not come up right away we can bump that population up to 850,000 to make sure we get a good stand of wheat, where other wheats run the risk of getting too thick and lodging in a good year or burning up in a poor year at higher populations. For it being a medium late wheat it has great heat tolerance during grain fill and managed to carry better than average test weights this year in the blast furnace. We got to see it this year on irrigation and it performed the best in the areas it was in. I would plant it on Irrigation up to October 15th then past that, move onto WB4595. This is a very well rounded wheat that is going to be around for a while.


WB4595 (CSO)

This is a sister wheat to WB4792, and they share a lot of the same characteristics. It will tiller a touch more than WB4792, and is 3 to 5 days earlier on maturity. It is right there with Langin for the 2nd best three year average. The earlier maturity will allow WB4595 to go ahead and go under irrigation later into October following dry corn and should be able to pick up a few more tillers over WB4792. It has a great overall plant health package, and performed very well from Oklahoma up through Northwest Kansas this year.


WB-Grainfield

This is an older all-around good wheat. It has good yields, plant health, tests weights and protein. This wheat can be dropped at a lighter population planted early in a good fertility program to go for very high yields, as this wheat is the one of the best wheats out there for putting a lot of grain into the head. It is a photoperiod sensitive wheat, so in a cool spring it will act like an early and a hot spring act a little later on its maturity. It will need a flag leaf fungicide application if stripe rust shows up big, but will get away with a very slight infection. Keep this wheat away from areas where Wheat Streak Mosaic may show up.


LCS Revere (CSO)

This wheat has done exactly what we have wanted it to. This is one of the only true medium early wheats that is good for western Kansas. If you liked T-158 this acts a lot like it with a higher yield potential, better straw strength and a better scab score. It still carries the adult plant resistance to stripe rust, and will handle a light infection of wheat streak mosaic. It was also carrying a higher protein level than some other wheats. Like T-158, this is probably not going to win any yield contest but it is a lot closer to the top wheats now, and in a tough year will really shine.


Joe

Joe is a white wheat. It is a very well rounded wheat with excellent yield. It is medium late maturing, medium tall wheat, with stripe rust resistance. This wheat is caring the WSM2 gene which has resistance to wheat streak mosaic up to 68 degree, so it is not 100% but is a good tool going up against mosaic. It is a top yielder. If you can handle a white wheat this is a must have on the farm. Joe has been one of the best performing wheats following same year corn on dryland. It handled the April freeze event very good with very little plant loss.


PG Guardian (CSO)

I kind of broke my own rules by taking this wheat into production, without it being tested in the strip trial for a couple years, but I will tell you why. It has the best package of any wheat on the market to go up against Wheat Streak Mosaic Virus. It has the WSM2 gene like Joe and it is carrying wheat curl mite resistance like Tam 112 did. So if we have a warm up in December or February and the WSM2 gene becomes less effective during that time then the curl mite resistance should slow the spread through the field until temps cool back down. Now I am not talking total resistance here, but this is a first of its kind type of wheat with 2 modes of action against Wheat Streak Mosaic. As far as the wheat goes it is a lot like Langin with a little better straw strength. I noticed that it did not want to put the third berry on as much as the Langin did this year and that was the yield difference.


PG Langin

We replaced Tam 112 and Byrd with this wheat. We now have four years of history with it, and it has performed in every situation. This is a very high tillering variety. It is going to be a big dog yielder, and in the droughty years hang in and produce more wheat than you thought it should have. It is a medium maturity wheat with a medium long coleoptile. It may have a lodging issue if planted too thick, so watch your seeding rates with this variety. We have seen it yield all the way up to 120 bpa and stand just fine with a lower seeding rate. Remember to fertilize for a high yield if going into the protein market because if it’s a good wheat year it will probably out-yield your available nitrogen and struggle to have protein. It is also carrying some wheat curl mite resistance.

The wheats above are all wheats we believe will excel on your farm. We have other wheats that we tested, some made it, and some did not. We take the wheats we sell very seriously and want to bring you the best the industry has to offer. Give us a call as we can provide you with a lot more information on how to manage each one of these wheats to provide you with the best harvest the weather will allow.

WB4792 (CSO)

This is the first big year of production and it did not disappoint. It won our strip trial last year in a very tough year and is at the top again this year. It was the best production wheat on our farm with a four bushel yield advantage over everything else. It is a Medium Late Maturity, Medium Height, by far the best straw strength. It doesn’t tiller quite as much as Joe and Langin, as we found out in our seeding rate trial, so we will definitely be 50,000 to 100,000 population higher with WB4792, especially into fallow corn stalks with a disc drill where we maybe don’t chop through the corn as much as we do through milo. We had planted it into both corn stalks and milo stalks, and we believe that since we were stretching out the seed due to a limited supply, that the lower stand count into the corn stalks definitely left some yield on the table. It probably could have been 5 to 8 bushels higher in the strip trial with the proper seeding rate. It has a good score against wheat streak mosaic virus, comparable to Langin and T158. It has good winter hardiness, and its yield history is at the top. The only real knock I have is its scab score, which we don’t have to worry about very often out here. But as it goes onto irrigated acres, if the scenario is right you would need to look at a Prosaro application at flowering. As other yield trials are coming in, it is at the top in K-State’s, Finney County, and Greely County dryland plots and won the Finney County irrigated plot. This should go on dryland and irrigated acres out here as long as it can be on irrigated by the 10th of October. If it is much past this date I would switch to something else. It has good resistance to leaf and stripe rust, however if it is a really bad rust year I would still spray it. Its overall plant health is remarkable all the way through to maturity. It puts on a very big head and has the straw strength to hold it with good test weights. It has had very good protein levels for its yield the last two years. This is one of those wheats that kind of changes the game with many great traits stacked into one wheat, and will have a long run until the next one comes along. This wheat should be on 60% of your acres. We have a good supply of it, but don’t expect it to be available much past the end of August.


WB-Grainfield

This is an all-around good wheat. Good yields, plant health, tests weights and protein. This wheat can be dropped at a lighter population planted early in a good fertility program to go for very high yields, as this wheat is the one of the best wheats out there for putting a lot of grain into the head. It is a photoperiod sensitive wheat, so in a cool spring it will act like an early and a hot spring act a little later on its maturity. It will need a flag leaf fungicide application if stripe rust shows up big, but will get away with it with a very slight infection. The yield history on this variety is very tough to beat.


WB-Cedar (Irrigated Only)

This is an early maturing variety with excellent straw, very high tillering, and yield. This is a wheat for full irrigation. It is a short wheat which makes it very well suited for irrigation. This is a good choice to follow corn taken for grain, especially late. It is moderately resistant to stripe rust leaf rust, and intermediate on tan spot. It had great test weight and protein for the year. This is a very forgiving wheat as it can help make up for some of the struggles associated with irrigated wheat.


WB4269 (CSO)(Irrigated Only)


This is a new wheat performing very well in its second year out. It is a lot like WB-Cedar, but has better stripe rust resistance, and improved scab resistance. It also handled the heat stress we had toward the end very well and came in with the best test weight of the irrigated varieties. I would say following corn stalks it has the best get up and go, and establishes a stand very fast. It may lean a little more than WB-Cedar but we did not have an issue with it lodging.


LCS Revere (CSO)

This wheat did exactly what we wanted it to. I like to call it T158 2.0. This is one of the only true medium early wheats that are good for western Kansas. If you liked T158 this acts a lot like it with a higher yield potential, better straw strength and a better scab score. It still carries the adult plant resistance to stripe rust, and will handle a light infection of wheat streak mosaic. It was also carrying a higher protein level than some other wheats. Like T158, this is probably not going to win any yield contest but it is a lot closer to the top wheats now, and in a tough year will really shine. This should be 20% to 30% of your acres to give you something that you will be able to get out and start harvest with.


Joe

Joe is a white wheat. It is a very well rounded wheat with excellent yield. It is medium late maturing, medium tall wheat, with stripe rust resistance. This wheat is caring the WSM2 gene which has resistance to wheat streak mosaic up to 70 degree, so it is not 100% but as good as it gets going up against mosaic. It is a top yielder. If you can handle a white wheat this is a must have on the farm.


Langin

We replaced Tam 112 and Byrd with this wheat. We now have three years of history with it, and it has performed in every situation. This is a very high tillering variety. It is going to be a big dog yielder, and in the droughty years hang in and produce more wheat than you thought it should have. It is a medium maturity wheat with a medium long coleoptile. It may have a lodging issue if planted too thick, so watch your seeding rates with this variety. We have seen it yield all the way up to 120 bpa and stand just fine with a lower seeding rate. Remember to fertilize for a high yield if going into the protein market because if it’s a good wheat year it will probably out-yield your available nitrogen and struggle to have protein. It is also carrying some wheat curl mite resistance.

The wheats above are all wheats we believe will excel on your farm. We have other wheats that we tested, some made it, and some did not. We take the wheats we sell very seriously and want to bring you the best the industry has to offer. Give us a call as we can provide you with a lot more information on how to manage each one of these wheats to provide you with the best harvest the weather will allow.

We really get to know what a wheat is like once we get it into large scale production so I will give you the breakdown of how the wheats ranked as far as our production goes to compare to the strip trial. The large farm data and the strip trial line up very comparably.

Production Wheat Rankings

1. WB4792
2. Langin
3. Joe
4. LCS Revere
5. WB-Grainfield

WB-Grainfield

This is an all-around good wheat. Good yields, plant health, tests weights, and protein. This is one of the wheat’s that did not like a planting date past the 15th of October and had a slightly off year; but planted toward the front end was a solid performer. Always remember to watch where you put this wheat as out of our top four it will probably struggle the most with wheat streak, but as we saw last year in our strip trial it will yield just fine through a mild infection. This wheat can be dropped at a lighter population in a good fertility program to go for very high yields, as this wheat is the best wheat out there for putting a lot of grain into the head. It will need a flag leaf fungicide application if stripe rust shows up big, but will get away with it with a very slight infection. The yield history on this variety is very tough to beat.


WB-Cedar

This is an early maturing variety with excellent straw, very high tillering, and yield. This is a wheat for full irrigation. It is a short wheat which makes it very well suited for irrigation. This is a good choice to follow corn taken for grain, especially late. It is moderately resistant to stripe rust, leaf rust, and is intermediate on tan spot. It had great test weight and protein for the year. This is a very forgiving wheat as it can help make up for some of the struggles associated with irrigated wheat. This has been our number 1 irrigated wheat.


WB4269

This is a new wheat performing very well in its first big year out. It is a lot like WB-Cedar, but has better stripe rust resistance, and improved Scab resistance. It also handled the heat stress we had toward the end very well and came in with the best test weight of the irrigated varieties. I would say following corn stalks it has the best get up and go and establishes a stand very fast. It may lean a little more than WB-Cedar but we did not have an issue with it lodging. I look for this wheat to take the place of WB-Cedar for western Kansas irrigated production


WB4303

If you want to shoot for the moon on irrigation, this is the wheat. We will have a very in-depth conversation about how to raise it, and it’s not for all producers.


Joe

Joe is a white wheat. It is a very well rounded wheat with excellent yield. It is a medium late maturing, medium tall wheat, with stripe rust resistance. This wheat is carrying the WSM2 gene which has resistance to wheat streak mosaic up to 70 degrees, so it is not 100%, but as good as it gets going up against mosaic. It is a top yielder, and with its maturity through the heat we had to finish in says a lot about how good this wheat is. It was up at the top of our farm again this year. If you can handle a white wheat this is a must have on the farm.


Langin

We replaced Tam 112 and Byrd with this wheat. We now have two years of history with it, and it has performed in every situation. It is going to be a big-dog yielder, and in the droughty years hangs in and produces more wheat than you thought it should have. It is a medium to medium early wheat with a medium long coleoptile. It may have a lodging issue if planted too thick, so watch your seeding rates with this variety. We have seen it yield all the way up to 100 bpa and stand just fine. Remember to fertilize for a high yield if going into the protein market because if it is a good wheat year it will probably out-yield your available nitrogen and struggle to have protein. It is also carrying some wheat curl mite resistance.


T-158

This wheat is definitely getting up there in age, but for it being a true early maturity, adult plant resistant to stipe rust, good tolerance to Wheat Streak, consistent yields and test weight in tough conditions, that is why this wheat has hung around. This wheat is not going to win any yield contest, but it will not fall apart on you either. It is still the best all-around wheat for its maturity class. I will also touch on the variety 14-89, which is a Limagrain experimental wheat meant to replace T158. It is a T158 cross, which performed very well in our strip trial. It looks to be everything T158 is with better straw strength, and higher yield potential. We did have a small amount of production from it, so if it is released this fall there will be a modest amount available.


The wheats above are all varieties we believe will excel on your farm. We have other wheats that we tested; some made it, some did not. We will be putting 2 to 3 new wheats in the ground this fall that we are very excited about. We take the wheat varieties we sell very seriously and want to bring you the best the industry has to offer. Give us a call as we can provide you with a lot more information on how to manage each one of these wheats to provide you with the best harvest the weather will allow.