07/03/08 Legion; AgriPro's new soft white winter wheat

Farm and Ranch July 3, 2008 AgriPro has released a new soft white winter wheat from its northwest breeding program. Breeder John Moffet says the new variety is called Legion and its pedigree includes a sister of Tubbs and AgriPro's AP700CL, a Clearfield wheat, though Legion is not an imi-resistant wheat. Moffet: "And in our trials and Oregon State's variety trials the last two years that line has done extremely well. So we think it is something that is going to improve our product mix and strengthen our product line up in southern Washington and northern Oregon. A variety that competes extremely well with the Tubbs types, the Oregon CF102 types. Anything that has that Tubbs pedigree, Legion is going to do extremely well." As for stripe rust resistance; Moffet: "Right now it tracks with the rust reaction we see in Stephens so we think in the pedigree combination we made we captured a good portion of wheat Stephens offers for stripe rust resistance." Moffet says there will be foundation and certified seed of Legion available this fall. He suggests growers check out the yield results themselves. Legion is in both the Washington and Oregon state trials. I'm Bob Hoff and that's the Northwest Farm and Ranch Report on the Northwest Ag Information Network.