Supporting Publications

Research in wheat management and growth has come a long way in improving production quality of wheat. Check out our publilcations

Wheat Management

• Growth and Development (PDF)
• Variety Characteristics (PDF)
• Variety Selection
• Kansas Crop Performance Tests
• Seeding Rate and Date (PDF)
• Wheat Production Handbook (PDF)
• Diagnosing Wheat Production Problems (PDF)
• Spring Freeze Injury to Kansas Wheat (PDF)
• Estimating wheat yield (PDF)

No-Till Wheat

• Crop Management (PDF)
• Residue Management (PDF)
• No-till Wheat Following a Summer Crop (PDF)
• Estimating Wheat Residue (PDF)

Fertility

• Soil Test Interpretation and Recommendations (PDF)
• Topdressing UAN With Herbicides On Wheat (PDF)
• Sulphur Management (PDF)
• Chloride Management (PDF)
• Urea Nitrogen Loss (PDF)

Disease

• Diseases Affecting Wheat Heads and Grain (PDF)
• Wheat Disease Identification (PDF)
• Evaluating the Need for Wheat Foliar Fungicides (PDF)
• Foliar Fungicide Efficacy Ratings (PDF)
• Seed Treatment Fungicides (PDF)
• Wheat Flag Smut (PDF)
• Wheat Stem Rust (PDF)
• Wheat Soilborne Mosaic (PDF)
• Take-all Root Rot (PDF)
• Barley Yellow Dwarf (PDF)
• Wheat Stripe Rust (PDF)
• Triticum Mosaic (PDF)
• Septoria Tritici Blotch (PDF)
• Tan Spot (PDF)

• Karnal blunt

  • Karnal Blunt Q&A (PDF)
  • SOP’s for Seed Procurement and Planting (PDF)
  • SOP’s for Harvest Equipment (PDF)

Insects

• Wheat Insect Management (PDF)
• Army Cutworm (PDF)
• Hessian Fly (PDF)
• Bird Cherry-Oat Aphid (PDF)
• Russian Wheat Aphid (PDF)
• Identifying Caterpillars in Wheat (PDF)

Weed Control

• Chemical Weed Control for Field Crops (PDF)
• Recognizing Weedy Bromes (PDF)
• Field Bindweed (PDF)

Grazing

• Wheat Variety Date of First Hollow Stem and Fall Forage Yield (PDF)
• Using Your Smartphone to Improve Grazing Management (PDF)
• Wheat Pastures in Kansas (PDF)
• Small Grain Cereals for Forage (PDF)
• Feeding Value (PDF)
• Estimating Wheat Yield (PDF)

Wheat Harvest and Storage

• Harvesting Wheat (PDF)
• Sanitation, Aeration, and Monitoring Farm Stored Wheat (PDF)
• Q&A On Aeration Controllers (PDF)
• Outdoor Piling of Wheat (PDF)

Wheat Quality

• Variety Milling and Baking Quality (PDF)
• Wheat Grading Procedures (PDF)
• Flour Tortilla Making Quality (PDF)

Economics & Marketing

• Economic Issues With Certified and Farmer-saved Wheat Seed (PDF)
• Quality Oriented Marketing of Hard Red Winter Wheat (PDF)
• Economic Issues With White Wheat (PDF)