KS Mako

KS Mako is a medium maturity and medium height wheat variety out of the K-State Manhattan breeding program. KS Mako has a celebrity pedigree with Jagger and LCS Chrome both contributing heavily to its genetics.  This variety has a yield performance similar to KS Providence and other top yielding varieties in the central KS corridor.  KS […]

KS Bill Snyder

KS Bill Snyder is a medium maturity, medium-short wheat out of the K-State Hays breeding program. This variety had proven itself as a very high yielder in both grain only and dual-purpose production systems. KS Bill Snyder has a solid disease package with good to intermediate resistance of stripe, leaf and stem rust along with strong tolerance […]

KS Big Bow

KS Big Bow is a medium height, medium-early maturity, hard white winter wheat from the K-State Hays Breeding Program. This variety has good drought resistance, WSMV and TriMV tolerance, and has consistently out-yielded Joe, the dominant white wheat variety in the region, for several years. KS Big Bow also improves dramatically on the quality traits […]

KS Providence

KS Providence has proven itself as a very well adapted and extremely high yielding variety for Kansas and beyond. It is intermediate to stripe rust, resistant to stem rust, leaf rust, and soil-borne mosaic virus and has an intermediate response to acid soils, good down to 5.5 pH. The FHB resistance will likely be adequate […]

KS Ahearn

KS Ahearn is a medium-late maturing hard red winter wheat with excellent straw strength, good resistance to leaf, stripe and stem rusts and acceptable test weight. It has had good yield potential and has performed well across widely disparate growing seasons. Its quality is acceptable and carries the 1B.1R wheat-rye translocation that came from Gallagher. […]

Larry

This variety from the Kansas Wheat Alliance tillers high and has good potential for top-end yield under increased management, such as a fungicide application in high-stress conditions. It’s somewhat taller than typical varieties from K-State’s Manhattan-based program. Larry is variety well adapted statewide as it has been performing well in state trials. Commercial behavior denotes […]

KS Western Star

This new release variety from Kansas Wheat Alliance is a hard red winter wheat with a pedigree of Byrd and KS05HW121-2. KS Western Star is a medium maturity and medium-tall statured variety. It had greater yields than any hard red wheat varieties in the KIN tests in 2017 and 2018, including Tatanka, WB-Grainfield, SY Monument, T158, Langin, […]

Everest

This variety developed by K-State is the benchmark for tolerance to FHB (an Intermediate rating is as good as it gets for scab tolerance). Everest remains one of the “go-to” varieties for eastern and central Kansas—the most-planted variety in the state for several years. Everest will need to be sprayed for either stripe rust or […]

Zenda

This Kansas Wheat Alliance release is bred from an Overley sibling and Everest by some experimental lines. Zenda can be viewed as an Everest replacement but it is 2-3 days later than Everest. Zenda’s stripe rust resistance has resulted in higher average yields and greater yield stability compared to Everest, and has better end-use quality […]