WINTER WHEAT VARIETY DESCRIPTIONS
          Resistance To 2   Quality Factors
Variety Origin1 Height Maturity Winter

Hardiness

 Lodging Stem

Rust

 Leaf

Rust

 Foliar

Disease

   Test

Weight

 Grain

protein
HARD RED WINTER WHEAT
Abilene AgriPro v short early poor R S MR NA   m high high
Agassiz ND tall m late good MS R S MR   m high medium
Alliance NE short early good R NA S NA   m high low
Arapahoe NE medium early fair R R MR MR   medium medium
Bighorn HybriTech short medium poor R R MS MS   medium m high
Blizzard ID m tall late fair MS MS NA M   m low medium
Crimson SD medium medium fair R NA MS NA   high medium
Elkhorn ND medium medium good R MR MR NA   medium m high
Erhardt MT medium medium good R R S R   high m high
Judith MT medium medium fair R MR S M   m low medium
Kestrel Canada m tall medium good R S S MS   m low low
McGuire MT m tall m early fair R R S M   medium high
Neeley ID medium m late fair R S S M   m low m low
Nekota SD/NE v short early good R NA MS NA   high low
Norstar Canada tall late v good S S S R   high low
Norwin MT v short m late good R MR S S   high low
Quan 542 HybriTech m tall medium poor R S S M   medium m low
Rampart* MT medium medium poor R R S M   medium high
Ransom ND medium m early good R NA R NA   m high medium
Readymade AC medium medium good R S S S   medium high
Rocky AgriPro tall medium fair R R S M   high medium
Roughrider ND tall medium v good S R S M   m high medium
Seward ND medium medium good R MR S NA   medium low
Tandem SD medium early fair R NA MS NA   high medium
Tiber MT tall m late fair R S S MR   m high medium
Windstar NE medium early fair R na MS NA   m high medium
HARD WHITE WINTER WHEAT
Nuwest MT/WPB medium medium good R R S MR   m low medium

1 Refers to developer: AC = Agriculture Canada.

2 R = resistant, MR = moderately resistant, M = intermediate, MS = moderately susceptible, S = susceptible, VS = very susceptible, NA = data not available.

* Sawfly resistant

Dryland Fallow Winter Wheat Williston, ND

  Yield TW Protein
Cultivar 1998* 3 yr 1998 1998 3 yr
  - bus/a - lb/b -- % --
           
Norstar 54.3 38.2 64 13.0 13.7
Seward 57.5 37.2 63 9.8 11.7
Elkhorn 49.4 35.4 63 11.4 13.2
Ransom 51.0 34.1 63 10.2 12.3
CDC Kestrel 53.2 34.0 63 10.5 12.4
Agassiz 46.0 33.4 63 13.5 14.3
Roughrider 46.2 33.0 63 12.8 14.3
Alliance 47.1 28.0 64 8.7 11.1
Arapahoe 44.9 27.1 62 12.6 13.4
Nekota 43.2 24.6 64 11.2 12.7
Crimson 48.6 ------ 64 11.8 ------
Erhardt 38.3 ------ 63 13.8 ------
Tandem 45.8 ------ 63 12.0 ------
Windstar 44.0 ------ 63 12.3 ------
McGuire 42.3 ------ 62 13.6 ------
Rampart 44.8 ------ 63 13.2 ------
           
LSD 5% 5.5 ------ 1 ------ ------
Plant: September 11 Harvest: July 21
* No significant winter kill in 1998

Irrigated Winter Wheat Sidney, MT

  Yield TW Protein
Cultivar 1998 3 yr 1998 1998 3 yr
 

- bus/a -

 lb/b

-- % --
Judith 70.0 86.2 57.0 13.9 14.7
Quantum 542 68.9 81.8 59.2 13.9 13.8
Redwin 73.3 79.6 59.2 12.7 15.2
Rocky 74.0 78.7 62.5 12.1 12.4
Tiber 58.6 72.7 60.0 12.9 12.7
Norstar 61.1 72.1 61.2 14.3 14.5
Neeley 51.8 371. 56.3 13.6 12.8
Nuwest 73.9 ------ 60.7 14.0 ------
Alliance 70.2 ------ 61.2 11.9 ------
Vanguard 69.7 ------ 62.0 13.8 ------
Manning 68.2 ------ 60.2 11.2 ------
Elkhorn 67.7 ------ 60.3 13.4 ------
Kestrel 67.4 ------ 60.2 12.5 ------
Bighorn 66.1 ------ 61.2 14.2 ------
Pronghorn 65.1 ------ 61.8 13.2 ------
Rampart 62.6 ------ 61.5 14.0 ------
Promontory 58.6 ------ 60.8 12.6 ------
McGuire 56.7 ------ 58.5 14.6 ------
Erhardt 56.3 ------ 60.8 14.9 ------
Halt 49.8 ------ 60.2 14.5 ------
LSD 5% 10.4 ------ 1.8 0.8 ------
Plant: October 17 Harvest: July 28
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Last modified: August 04, 2003