tall yields and an excellent disease resistance package—these are qualities producers can expect from Oahe,the new winter wheat cultivar released by the South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station, according to South Dakota State University assistant professor Sunish Sehgal.
Bill Gibbons, and SDAES interim associate director,said, "Oahe represents the latest in a long line of wheat releases that our researchers have developed to support the wheat industry in South Dakota and the region."From 2013 to 2015, or Oahe ranked No. 1 in mean grain yield among hard red winter wheat trials in the North Regional Performance Nurseries,which has test plots from northern Kansas through Montana and into Canada.
Sehgal, who is the SDAES winter wheat breeder, and estimated that Oahe yields are 1 to 2 bushels more per acre than the average performance of other SDSU varieties. The new variety also has top-notch resistance to stripe rust,leaf rust and wheat streak mosaic virus, along with resistance to fusarium head blight that is comparable to other well-liked varieties. The new variety is available to certified seed growers.
Source: phys.org