North Dakota Small Grains Page

NDSU Extension Service
North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station
NDSU College of Agriculture

Compiled by Joel Ransom,

Extension Agronomist for Cereal Crops

Updates, links and recent articles

• Winter Wheat Trial Results for 2008 and Selection Guide 

• Source of Winter Wheat Seed 2008 (listing of certified seed growers)
  

• Preliminary winter wheat yield trial data for 2008

  • Lisbon

  • Hettinger

  • Mandan

  • Prosper
    

• Presentations from the Best of the Best in Wheat Research and Marketing 2008 held in Dickinson and Minot (Posted 2/25/08)

  • Presentations made in Dickinson

  • Presentations made in Minot

• Winter wheat yield trial data for 2007

  • Lisbon (Posted 8/6/07)

  • Roseglen (Posted 8/6/07)

  • Hettinger (Posted 8/7/07)

  • Berthold (Posted 8/7/07)

  • Mandan (Posted 8/10/07)

  • Prosper (Posted 8/1/7/07)

  • Carrington (Posted 8/22/07)

  • Williston Fallow (Posted 8/27/07)

  • Williston No-till (Posted 8/27/07)

  • Langdon (Posted 8/28/07)

  • Dickinson (Posted 8/31/07)

   

  • Preliminary data from South Dakota (linked 8/11/07)

   

• Hard White Wheat - Producing North Dakota's Next Market Opportunity  This new publication from the NDSU Extension Service outlines marketing and production issues of hard white wheat.
   

• Presentations from the Best of the Best in Wheat Research and Marketing Meetings held in January and February 2006

  Click here to review presentations made at the Best of the Best in Wheat Research and Marketing meetings.  These files require the use of Adobe� Reader� (Posted 7 March 2006).

   

• DON (Vomitoxin) in Wheat -- Basic Questions and Answers (Sept 2005)  A new NDSU Extension Service publication on what DON is, how it is measure, how to deal with grain with elevated levels of DON, and how to prevent it in the future.  

• Delayed harvest of small grains and quality concerns (Sept 2004)

• Sprout damage in cereals and the falling number test (Sept 2004)

• Frost damage in cereals (May 2004)

• Winter wheat survival 2003/2004

High Profit/Intensive Wheat Production Resources

Research Reports

• Managing for high yield – What worked in 2005? A review of intensive wheat production research in North Dakota in 2005 (posted 2/25/06)

• Managing for high yield: A review of intensive wheat production research in North Dakota in 2004 (posted 3/14/05) 

• Management options for increased wheat yield and profit: A review of high input wheat production research in North Dakota in 2003

Power Point Presentations made in 2004 on High Profit Wheat Production  (these files require the use of Adobe� Reader�)

• Fundamentals of high profit wheat (Joel Ransom)

• Building a foundation for yield and profit (Greg Endres)

• Fertilizing wheat for high yield (Dave Franzen)

• Controlling wheat disease for dollars (Marcia McMullen)

• Protecting yield potential: Insects and income (Phillip Glogoza)

• Weed Control That Makes Money (Terry Gregoire)

• New equipment in wheat management (Vern Hoffman)

• More buck for the bushel (George Flaskerud)

• What is Wheat Quality and Why it Matters (Brian Sorenson)

Varietal Testing Information

• 2007 varietal trial data from all Research and Extension Centers in ND (index)

• Strategy For Selecting The Best Performing Varieties

          A Basic Primer on Biotechnology
Biotechnology and its use to modify the genetic makeup of living organisms has become a topic of heated discussion in recent years. Confusion is plentiful on the topic of biotechnology and genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The purpose of this publication is to discuss genetic/biochemical processes at a basic level and how biotechnology is used to modify the genetic makeup of an organism.

        Growing White Wheat in North Dakota
With the new Farm Bill there is increasing interest in producing white wheat in North Dakota.  This publication provides some basic facts about white wheat.