SY Ovation Achieves Some of Top Wheat Yields in Region

Harvest results in the Pacific Northwest indicate that the winter wheat variety, SY Ovation, which Syngenta released commercially to growers just last year, produced top yields throughout the region — as high as 16 bushels per acre better than average. 

SY Ovation is the first commercially-released certified seed variety in the Pacific Northwest developed using doubled-haploid technology. Along with good stripe rust tolerance, it offers heavy test weights and excellent yield potential as Syngenta Cereals Key Account Manager Ed Driskill shares

Driskill: "It has a lot going for it from a disease perspective but then across the PNW -- the Williamette Vally of Oregon, irrigated country of southern Idaho and Columbia Basin and of course the dryland of the Palouse it was not only in the top yield group of trials across the region but absolutely winning those trials. We knew it had something from a yield standpoint that would be adaptive in a lot of different environments and when you see a variety that does that in of different environments it is going to have some things that is going to be beneficial to growers."

In 2013, the yield results of SY Ovation translated to Idaho, Oregon and Washington dryland fields with yields ranging from more than 80 bushel per acre to almost 120 bushes per acre, and irrigated fields with yields close to 165 bushels per acre. Test weights averaged around 60 pounds per bushel.