End use quality and the wheat varieties farmers plant

Farm and Ranch November 26, 2010 Marketing quality wheat is an emphasis of commissions representing wheat producers in the Pacific Northwest. Idaho, Oregon and Washington all produce lists of preferred varieties based on milling and baking tests to provide guidance to producers when deciding what varieties to plant.

We won’t know until surveys are conducted next summer just what wheat varieties the region’s farmers are planting this fall. However, here is what Glen Squires, vice president and analyst of the Washington Grain Commission found in studying the results of this year’s varietal surveys.

Squires: “For the 2010 crop looking at the acres planted to white wheat, seven out of the top ten varieties by acres planted fall into this most desirable/desirable category relative to quality. There are three of the varieties down in the acceptable range, which reveals that most of the varieties being grown in the Pacific Northwest are of pretty good quality.”

That’ common soft whites. For the club wheats;

Squires: “Bruel is clearly the dominant variety for the PNW and it is into that desirable range as well.”

In fact, Squires says none of the planted club varieties fall below the desirable category.

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

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