Agriculture and Rural Development : Crop Information Portal

Hard White Spring Wheat (Triticum aestivum )

Crop Information

Description:

Hard White Spring wheat is currently being test marketed by the Wheat Board for human food use in the many countries of the world that prefer white wheats over red wheats. These countries say they get about a 10% increased flour yield over red wheat because they can grind closer to the seed coat.

Hard White Spring Wheat Distributor(s):

Quality Assured Seeds ( Choose FarmPure), SeCan

Characteristics

Performance:

Variety	Data by Geographical Region						Comp. Mat. days	Test Yield Category
Variety	1	2	3	4	5&6	IRR		Low	Med	High
	Yield as % of AC Taber							Yield as % of test mean
Kanata ❀	XX	94	89	91	85	100	-2	XX	94	89
Snowbird ❀	98	103	105	102	103	114	2	98	103	105
Snowstar ❀	98	104	96	94	102	102	-2	97	96	94

Agronomic Data:

Variety	Ht	Kn. Wt.	Protein	Te. Wt.
	(cm)	(g/1000)	(%)	(lb/bu)

Kanata	82	33	0.2	60
Snowbird	87	36	-0.4	61
Snowstar	84	30	-0.8	64

Abbreviations Used:
Ht = Height (cm) ; Kn. Wt. = Kernel Weight (g/1000) ; Te. Wt. = Test Weight (lb/bu)

Disease Data:

Variety	Bunt, common	Comm Rt. Rot	Fusarium Head Blight	Leaf Spot	Loose Smut	Stripe Rust

Kanata	P	F	F	P	F	P
Snowbird	F	F	P	P	G	---
Snowstar	P	---	P	F	P	---

Abbreviations Used:
Comm Rt. Rot = Common Root Rot Resistance: VG = Very Good, G = Good, F = Fair, P = Poor, VP = Very Poor, S = Susceptible

Environment Data:

Variety	Ldg.	Sprouting

Kanata	G	G
Snowbird	G	G
Snowstar	---

Abbreviations Used:
Ldg. = Lodging Resistance: VP = Very poor, P = Poor, F = Fair, G = Good, VG = Very good, EX = Excellent