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 2013-2017 include SY Clearstone 2CL at 78.3 bushels per acre, Yellowstone at 77.8 bushels per acre and Northern at 74.9 bushels per acre. Judee is the top yielding solid stem sawfly-tolerant variety at 73.9 bushels per acre followed by Warhorse at 68.5 bushels per acre and Bearpaw at 60.3 bushels per acre.

NARC (Loma area) top three yielding winter wheat varieties (10 year comp. average yield) from 2008-2017 include Northern at 58.1 bushels per acre, SY Wolf at 56.7 bushels per acre and Yellowstone at 55.5 bushels per acre. Judee is the top yielding solid stem sawfly-tolerant variety yielding 52.2 bushels per acre followed by Warhorse at 51.8 bushels per acre and Bearpaw at 47.3 bushels per acre.

CARC (Geraldine area) top three yielding winter wheat varieties in 2016 and 2017 were Keldin at 95.8, SY Wolf at 93.8 and SY Clearstone 2CL at 87.45 bushels per acre. Bearpaw was the top yielding solid stem sawfly-tolerant variety yielding 80 bushels per acre followed by Warhorse at 76.3 bushels per acre and Judee at 71.4 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.