Tri-State Neighbor: South Dakota Farm Newspaper

SDSU variety trials suggest Stallion and Souris for statewide use; Beach and Jerry for use in western South Dakota; and Morton for use in northern South Dakota. Tri-State Neighbor file photo

BROOKINGS, S.D. - A new publication from South Dakota State University gives the latest variety recommendations for small grains.

SDSU Extension Circular EC774-09, “Small Grains and Field Peas: 2009 Variety Recommendations (2008 Crop Performance Results),” is available at this link: http://agbiopubs.sdstate.edu/articles/EC774-09.pdf.

The publication, as well as past years' crop performance trials, also is available at the SDSU variety trials Web page, http://plantsci.sdstate.edu/varietytrials/vartrial.html.

The small grain variety recommendations include:

Spring wheat

Briggs, Granger, RB07 and Steele-ND for all areas except southeastern South Dakota, and Faller, Howard and Traverse for statewide use.

Oats

Stallion and Souris for statewide use, Beach and Jerry for use in all of western South Dakota, and Morton for use in northern South Dakota, both east and west.

Barley

Lacey and Tradition for statewide use; Eslick for feed use in the north and central parts of western South Dakota, Rawson for use in northern South Dakota, both east and west, and Conlon for use in all areas except the southern part of the state.

Winter wheat

Nu Dakota, Wendy (white) and Wesley for use in western South Dakota; Expedition, Harding, Millennium, Overland and Alice (white) for use in a number of crop adaptation areas.

SDSU Extension crops specialist Bob Hall, research associate John Rickertsen, agricultural research managers Kevin Kirby and Jesse Hall, and senior agricultural research technician Bruce Swan, wrote the 30-page publication.

It offers detailed field data from sites across South Dakota for spring wheat, oats, barley, winter wheat and field peas. The publication tells what varieties are recommended for seven different crop adaptation areas of the state, and also lists varieties considered acceptable or promising for the different areas.

The circular also provides data about how different varieties compare in measurements such as protein, height and test weight at different locations. The relative maturity (heading) rating of each variety to a reference variety is given. The latest disease resistance/tolerance information about different varieties is also in the publication.

Both one- and three-year average yields for each variety are included for each test location if the variety was tested for three or more years.

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