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Wheat ‘Picks’ highlight top-performing varieties by Texas A&M AgriLife

Variety selection key to managing potential growing-season risks

As producers try to put the weather-plagued 2022-2023 wheat crop behind them and prepare for the next season, Texas A&M AgriLife agronomists from the High Plains and Rolling Plains are releasing their annual list of top-performing wheat varieties.

The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service and Texas A&M AgriLife Research annual “Top Wheat Picks” list for top-performing varieties is based on a three-year running average and not a single year, taking into account the harsh drought conditions of the past two years.

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Wheat growing in the field with white signs telling the name and traits
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Texas A&M AgriLife’s public breeding program releases new wheat, triticale varieties

Increase in seed production from Texas A&M AgriLife Foundation Seed to potentially reach farmers in 2024

Two new wheat varieties and a new triticale variety are headed to farmers in the fall of 2024, according to an announcement by Texas A&M AgriLife and the Texas A&M Wheat Improvement Program. 

Texas A&M AgriLife Research wheat breeders Jackie Rudd, Ph.D., in Amarillo and Amir Ibrahim, Ph.D., in Bryan-College Station, both within the Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, made the announcement at the recent small grains field day at the research plots near Bushland.

The wheat breeders put their experimental lines through observation trials and 20 elite line breeder trials before planting them in uniform variety trials at 30 locations across the state to test the genetics by environment.

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close up of wheat growing in a field with whilte sign in front that describes the traits of the TX14A001035 wheat variety