Top Yielding Winter Wheat Varieties for Chouteau County

MSU Agriculture research centers have three test plots for winter wheat in Chouteau County. Research plots are managed by MSU Western Triangle Agricultural Research Center (WTARC) south of the Knees, MSU Northern Agricultural Research Center (NARC) north of Loma and MSU Central Agricultural Research Center (CARC) west of Geraldine. A special thanks to John Miller (WTARC agronomist), Peggy Lamb (NARC agronomist) and Pat Carr (CARC superintendent) for establishing and maintaining the Chouteau County test plots. The Extension office would also like to thank the Killion family, the McKeever family and the Davis family for donating the use of their land for MSU research.

WTARC (Knees area) top three yielding winter wheat varieties (five-year means) from 2012-2016 include SY Clearstone 2CL at 75.3 bushels per acre, Yellowstone at 72.9 bushels per acre and Northern at 72.2 bushels per acre. Judee is the top yielding solid stem sawfly-resistant variety at 70.8 bushels per acre followed by Warhorse at 66.4 bushels per acre and Bearpaw at 56 bushels per acre.

NARC (Loma area) top three yielding winter wheat varieties (10 year comp. average yield) include Northern at 58.1 bushels per acre, Yellowstone at 57.8 bushels per acre and CDC Falcon at 56.6 bushels per acre. Judee is the top yielding solid stem sawfly-resistant variety yielding 54.2 bushels per acre followed by Warhorse at 53.8 bushels per acre and Bearpaw at 50.5 bushels per acre.

CARC (Geraldine area) top three yielding winter wheat varieties in 2015 and 2016 were Yellowstone at 88.3 bushels per acre, SY Wolf at 88.1 and WB3768 at 87 bushels per acre. Bearpaw was the top yielding solid stem sawfly-resistant variety yielding 78.7 bushels per acre followed by Warhorse at 76.2 bushels per acre and Judee at 74.7 bushels per acre.

In addition, Chouteau County Extension also has the NARC (Havre) information available upon request. Please contact the Chouteau County Extension office at 622-3751 for additional information.

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