NDSU Wheat Variety Trial Results

Hello to all of you!

We received rainfall in the past week with some reporting upwards of 0.8 inches. Temperatures were above normal again for the past week.

Soybean harvest is nearly completed and someone said corn harvest started.

I have received some questions about home lawns. If you have received over an inch of rain in the past month, that should have been enough rainfall to rejuvenate the lawn. If your lawn has not recovered yet from the drought then it likely will not, unless it is Kentucky bluegrass. The rhizomes of Kentucky bluegrass allows the grass to recover from drought fairly well where as ryegrass and tall fescue do not have rhizomes, so if the crown dies, then the grass is dead and will not recover.

I reported earlier on the results of my wheat variety research trial, but now let’s look at the trials conducted by the NDSU Research and Extension Centers. The two closest locations to Griggs County are Carrington and Dazey, but you could look at other locations to see how varieties do across different environments. To find information about all sites visit the following website: https://www.ag.ndsu.edu/varietytrials/spring-wheat .

Both sites were minimum tilled with the Carrington site planted on April 9, 2021 following dry beans. The Dazey site was planted on April 29, 2021 following soybeans.

The highest yielding hard red spring wheat variety at the Carrington site was Elgin-ND at 65.5 bushels per acre. Other varieties yielding statistically similar to Elgin-ND were AAC Brandon at 63.7 bushels per acre, MN-Torgy at 63.2 bushel per acre, SY McCloud at 62.7 bushels per acre, ND Frohberg at 62.6 bushels per acre, SY Longmire at 62.3 bushels per acre, Driver at 62.2 bushels per acre, Allegiant 822 at 61.1 bushels per acre, WB9479 at 60.6 bushels per acre, CAG-Justify at 60.5 bushels per acre, DG Ambush at 60.1 bushels per acre, MS Ranchero at 60.0 bushels per acre. PFS-Buns at 59.8 bushels per acre, CP3530 and TCG-Spitfire at 59.6 bushels per acre, SY 611CL2 at 59.5 bushels per acre, Dagmar at 59.3 bushels per acre, Shelly and LCS Trigger at 58.8 bushels per acre, AAC Goodwin at 58.6 bushels per acre, Commander at 58.1 bushels per acre, LCS Rebel at 58.0 bushels per acre, Lang-MN and CP3188 at 57.8 bushels per acre, SY Valda, Bolles, and AP Gunsmoke CL2 at 57.7 bushels per acre, CP3099A at 57.4 bushels per acre, and AAC Starbuck VB at 57.3 bushels per acre. The highest yielding hard red spring wheat variety for two years at Carrington was MN-Torgy at 59.7 bushels per acre. The highest yielding hard red spring wheat variety for three years at Carrington was Elgin-ND.

The hard red spring wheat variety with the highest protein content at Carrington was Bolles at 17.5 percent. No other variety was statistically similar to it. The hard red spring wheat variety having the highest protein over a three year period was Bolles at 18.1 percent.

The highest yielding hard red spring wheat variety at Dazey was LCS Cannon at 67.6 bushel per acre. Unfortunately, there was no significant difference between varieties at the Dazey location so all other varieties at that location were statistically similar to LCS Cannon. The highest yielding hard red spring wheat variety for two years at Dazey was AP Murdock at 67.6 bushels per acre. The highest yielding hard red spring wheat variety for three years at Dazey was Faller at 66.0 bushels per acre.

The hard red spring wheat variety with the highest protein content at the Dazey site for 2021 was Bolles at 15.1 percent. Other hard red spring wheat varieties having statistically similar protein were WB9590 and LCS Rebel at 14.7 percent, Driver at 14.6 percent, SY McCloud at 14.5 percent, and CP3530 at 14.3 percent. The hard red spring wheat variety with the highest protein content over a three year period was Bolles at 17.0 percent.

Take the time to study these results as there is additional information that I do not have time to discuss here. Also concentrate your efforts on finding the varieties that perform the best over multiple environments (locations) and years.