Winter Wheat
Welcome to the Kansas State University official winter wheat website. Winter wheat is the predominant crop grown in Kansas, with anywhere from 8 to 12 million acres sown every year and annual production often ranging between 280 and 460 million bushels. These statistics makes Kansas the largest winter wheat producing state in the U.S. Additionally, over 90% of the winter wheat grown in the U.S. southern Great Plains is cultivated under dryland conditions, rendering this region as the largest contiguous dryland winter wheat producing region in the world.
In this website, we provide diverse information about wheat production and quality for stakeholders interested in wheat production systems in Kansas and in the U.S. southern Great Plains. Use the drop-down menu below to guide you to information on specific topics. Make sure and access this information in our Twitter (@KSUWheat) and Facebook (@KSUWheat) pages.
Wheat Management
- Growth and Development (PDF)
- Variety Characteristics (PDF)
- Variety Selection
- Variety Performance
- 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
- Fertility
- 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
- Insects
- Weed Control
- Grazing
- Wheat Harvest and Storage
Wheat Quality
Economics & Marketing
Demonstration Plots
County and district wheat demonstration plots are educational tools that help producers identify wheat varieties well-suited to their farms. Historically, three to five wheat demonstration plots were installed per agricultural district and one to three per county in the state of Kansas, with thousands of stakeholders who participate in wheat plot tours in a yearly basis.
More information about wheat demonstration plots can be found in KSRE publication MF 3317 (PDF).
Agronomy eUpdates
The Department of Agronomy at Kansas State University releases weekly eUpdates on crop production and environmental issues pertinent to the State of Kansas and the U.S. Southern Great Plains. To be added to our email listserv, please send a request by emailing Troy Lynn Eckart).
Wheat Industry Organizations & Corporate Sites
- AgriPro Wheat
- AGSECO
- AIB International
- BASF Clearfield Wheat
- Colorado Wheat Commission
- Farmer Direct Foods
- Kansas Wheat Alliance
- Limagrain Cereal Seeds
- National Association of Wheat Growers
- Oklahoma Genetics, Inc.
- Oklahoma Wheat Commission
- Plains Gold
- Plains Grains Inc.
- U.S. Wheat Associates
- UltraGrain Flour
- WestBred Wheat
- Wheat Foods Council
- Wheat Quality Council
- Kansas Wheat Commission
