South Dakota State University Open PRAIRIE: Open Public Research Access Institutional Repository and Information Exchange South Dakota State University Agricultural Bulletins Experiment Station 4-1-1927 Wheat in South Dakota E.W. Hardies A.N. Hume Follow this and additional works at: http://openprairie.sdstate.edu/agexperimentsta_bulletins Recommended Citation Hardies, E.W. and Hume, A.N., "Wheat in South Dakota" (1927). Bulletins. Paper 222. http://openprairie.sdstate.edu/agexperimentsta_bulletins/222 This Bulletin is brought to you for free and open access by the South Dakota State University Agricultural Experiment Station at Open PRAIRIE: Open Public Research Access Institutional Repository and Information Exchange. It has been accepted for inclusion in Bulletins by an authorized administrator of Open PRAIRIE: Open Public Research Access Institutional Repository and Information Exchange. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. r-------------Dig�t----------� South Dakota produces about thirty million bushels of wheat annually. This consists of hard red spring, durum and hard red winter wheats. Marquis is the most desirable spring wheat for milling pur poses but Kota and Ruby have outyielded Marquis in the variety tests a.t the South Dakota State College experiment stations of Brookings and Highmore. Turkey S. D. 144 has given the highe_st yields and survives the winters better than the other varieties of winter wheats tested. Among the durum wheats, Kubanka is wanted by the millers but in the variety tests this variety has yielded less than Acme, Monad, and Mindum. Winter wheat seeded in the standing corn yielded 20.0 bush els while that seeded on plowed ground yielded 11.5 bushels per acre, at the College Experiment Station at Brookings.