New wheats in ARS pipeline

Farm and Ranch July 6, 2010 Pullman based Agricultural Research Service wheat breeder Kim Campbell has a new club variety in pre-release. It is ARS970075-3C. Campbell talked about the variety at a breezy field day recently.

Campbell: “I’m trying to move them more into the intermediate to high rainfall regions so this is another one targeted at that region. Kara came out last year. This one is a little bit tougher I think. It seems to do well even in lower rainfall situations.”

Campbell says this new club has stripe resistance and foot rot resistance.

Campbell: “And then we work real hard on the grain grading morphology, the head type, so it grades club consistently. This one has good test weight too, 75-3C.”

Campbell also has a new common soft white winter wheat in pre-release; ARS960277L, with Eltan in its pedigree.

Campbell: “I think probably a little bit more targeted for the intermediate rainfall region but it has excellent stripe rust resistance and has very, very good end-use quality. Its yields have bee competitive with Tubbs, a little better than Tubbs. Not as good as Xerpha but kind of in the pack with a lot of these new lines that have come out recently.”

Campbell wanted one more year of data on straw strength for 277L.

I’m Bob Hoff and that’s the Northwest Farm and Ranch Report on Northwest Aginfo Net.