As you plan for your next wheat crop, here's what Nebraska wheat growers planted for their 2008 crop.

For the fourth consecutive year, Jagalene was the most popular winter wheat variety planted in Nebraska, according to USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service, Nebraska Field Office.

Although Jagalene's numbers are down sharply from 2007, it continued to be the variety with the largest number of acres. Jagalene first appeared in the state in 2003 and has held a prominent share of the state's seedings each of the last four years.

Pronghorn remained the second most popular variety planted, with Millenium beating out Wesley and Alliance for third place. For the 2008 crop, Jagalene accounted for 20.9% of the acreage. Pronghorn was planted on 10.6% of the acreage and Millenium accounted for 9.4% of the acreage total.

This wheat variety data was provided by the 1,800 voluntary reports from Nebraska wheat producers who responded to the 2007 Fall Agricultural Report. This summary includes reports representing 11% of the state's total planted acreage estimate.

Jagalene is a medium maturing variety with excellent straw strength. It has very good winter hardiness and excellent milling and baking qualities. It is resistant to stem rust, leaf rust and soil borne wheat mosaic virus. It is moderately resistant to wheat streak mosaic virus but susceptible to Hessian fly. Jagalene is widely adapted and demonstrates good drought tolerance. Jagalene was selected from the cross Abilene/Jagger.

Pronghorn, a tall variety of moderately early maturity, has good tillering ability and moderately strong straw. It has good yield stability in the Nebraska Panhandle and dryland production in adjacent states.

Yield is comparable to Buckskin with superior stem rust resistance. It has a long coleoptile and good early spring regrowth along with good winter hardiness. The grain has very good test weight patterns and milling/baking qualities. It was developed by Nebraska and the USDA-ARS.

Millennium is a medium maturing, medium height variety and is well adapted throughout most of the Nebraska dryland wheat production areas and adjacent states. It has a good test weight, high grain yield, fair to good winter hardiness, shorter length coleoptile, very good tillering ability, and moderately strong straw. It is resistant to Hessian fly; moderately resistant to stem leaf and stripe rust; susceptible to soil borne mosaic and barley yellow dwarf viruses. It has average protein and good end-use quality characteristics for milling and baking. Millennium was developed by Nebraska and the USDA-ARS.