Westbred has two new hard red winter wheat varieties.

Adapted for the Central Plains region, WB4401 is a medium-maturing variety that offers excellent yield potential, test weight and end-use quality. It has a strong disease tolerance package, including intermediate leaf and stripe rust tolerance, as well as good fusarium head blight (scab) tolerance. This line also offers excellent grazing potential and very good Hessian Fly tolerance.

Shaun Ohlde, Palmer, Kan., grew WB4401 this year and was pleased with its performance on dryland acreage.

“It displays excellent tillering capacity for following soybeans and is an ideal maturity for our area,” he says.

WB4309 is adapted for South Dakota and the southern half of North Dakota. It is a medium to early-maturing variety. It offers a balance of yield, protein and standability, with very good test weight and milling and baking quality. It has a strong disease resistance package, including good fusarium head blight resistance and very good yellow (stripe) rust resistance.

Jim Klebsch, Redfield, S.D., planted WB4309 last fall into standing wheat stubble. Although his wheat crop suffered through a hard spring freeze, the new variety handled the stress and performed well.

“We saw really good stands and zero lodging with WB4309,” Klebsch says. “It grew through some very tough conditions of several days in a row with temps in the 20s. Harvested in July, the yield was in the 82 to 83 bushel per acre range, and protein was about 13.4. So, for our environment, that is very good performance on dryland wheat.”

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