Selecting Winter Wheat Varieties - Best for Your Cropping System
2020年7月21日 · When selecting seed, consider these variety characteristics: yield potential, maturity, winter hardiness, straw strength, coleoptile length, plant height, lodging and shattering, seed size, test weight, disease and insect resistance, herbicide tolerance, milling and baking quality, and enhanced traits.
Winter wheat - Wikipedia
Winter wheat (usually Triticum aestivum) are strains of wheat that are planted in the autumn to germinate and develop into young plants that remain in the vegetative phase during the winter and resume growth in early spring.
Planting Winter Wheat - Penn State Extension
2023年8月29日 · The ideal plant population for winter wheat is 1.3 to 1.5 million plants/acre. Assuming a typical 85% emergence rate, this requires a seeding rate between 1.5 and 1.7 million seeds/acre (see Table 1 to convert to seeds per foot of row).
Current MSU/MAES solid-stemmed winter wheat varieties include Judee, (released in 2011), Bearpaw (2011), Warhorse (2013), Loma (2016), Bobcat (2019) StandClear CLP (2020), and MT WarCat (2022).
What Makes Winter Wheat a “Winter Wheat”? - SDSU Extension
2020年8月26日 · Winter wheat varieties that are adapted to northern climates are usually more tolerant to extended subfreezing temperatures than those adapted to southern environments. The most winter hardy varieties can withstand crown temperatures as low as -15° F.
Classes of Wheat | Which Wheat for What? | EatWheat
Six classes bring order to the thousands of varieties of wheat. They are Hard Red Winter, Hard Red Spring, Soft Red Winter, Durum, Hard White and Soft White. More foods are made with wheat than any other cereal grain. U.S. farmers grow nearly 2.4 billion bushels of wheat on 63 million acres of land. (Source: USDA)
Top Forage Winter Wheat - Successful Farming
2014年4月7日 · Top Forage Winter Wheat. Willow Creek forage winter wheat, an awnless variety developed at Montana State University, offers benefits to Northern livestock growers.
Winter Wheat as a Cover Crop - Penn State Extension
2024年9月23日 · This factsheet covers winter wheat cover crop benefits, adaption, and management for agronomic cropping systems in Pennsylvania. Winter wheat protects soil from erosion, helps scavenge nutrients, adds organic matter to the soil, and more, while being easier to manage than cereal rye.
How to choose the right winter wheat variety - Farm Progress
2014年9月18日 · Whether you’re planting winter wheat for maximum yields, for fall and winter grazing or for best double-crop results next spring, choosing a proven variety for your growing area will likely boost your overall wheat performance and production goals.
Plant winter-hardy, adapted varieties | UMN Extension
Guide to planting winter-hardy wheat varieties in Minnesota: Optimal conditions, how long plants can survive extreme cold and how hardiness changes.