KS Mako

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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

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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 Territory

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KS Territory is a medium height, medium maturity variety from the K-State Hays Breeding Program. It carries the Wsm2 gene for wheat streak mosaic resistance and has moderate resistance to leaf and stem rusts. This variety also has intermediate resistance to Triticum Mosaic Virus, making is especially well suited to areas where both WSMV and […]

KS Big Bow

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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

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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

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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. […]

KS Hamilton

KS Hamilton is a medium maturity hard red winter wheat with a similar heading date as KS Western Star and three days later than T158.  It has moderate shattering resistance with average straw strength, similar to KS Dallas and T158. KS Hamilton has good resistance to wheat streak mosaic virus, stem rust, soilborne mosaic virus, […]

KS Dallas

KS Dallas is a proven hard red winter wheat for High Plains producers. KS Dallas is a medium maturity and medium height variety with a strong disease package including WSMV resistance up to 21C. It has intermediate resistance to stripe rust and good resistance to leaf rust and stem rust. It is susceptible to soilborne […]

Joe

Joe Field

This variety from Kansas Wheat Alliance is a hard white wheat with a pedigree consisting of KSU experimental lines related to Trego, Arline, and Jagger. Joe is medium-late maturity, medium-tall, with a well-stocked disease package indicating moderate resistance to stripe rust and resistance to leaf rust and WSMV. It also shows good milling and baking […]

Everest

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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 […]

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