KS Homesteader CL+
KS Homesteader CL+ is a medium-late, medium-tall variety from Kansas State University and Kansas Wheat Alliance. It has a strong disease package with resistance to stripe rust and higher temperature resistance (21C) to WSMV. This variety puts on a heathy amount of straw making it a good choice for producers looking for ground cover before […]
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 Territory
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 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. […]
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, […]
Oakley CL
This Kansas Wheat Alliance variety is a single-gene Clearfield, red wheat with resistance to WSMV (WSM2 gene carrier). Oakley CL has a medium-long coleoptile, very good shattering resistance, and average straw strength. In general, Oakley CL has a very strong yield record on dry-land production on the High Plains—it’s a good one for western Kansas—and […]
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, […]