Higher Crop Yields From Improved Varieties
soybeans  wheat  oats  legumes  grasses
Purdue University Cooperative Extension Service Lafayette, Indiana
Mimeo AY-1 March, 1964
WHEAT VARIETIES FOR INDIANA AND RESULTS OF 1963 COUNTY DEMONSTRATIONS Department of Agronomy in cooperation with county agents and farmers
Recommended soft red winter wheat varieties for Indiana are MONON, KNOX '62 REDCOAT and REED. LA FORTE is still rec-ommended for the northern 0.5 of Indiana. Acceptable soft red winter wheat varieties are VERMILLION and IA PORTE for the southern 0.75 of Indiana.
Developed by Purdue Agricultural Ex-periment Station and USDA and adapted throughout Indiana, all have excellent milling, pastry and cake flour quality.
What maturity do you prefer?
From earliest to Midseason:	MONON,
KNOX '62, IA FORTE, REDCOAT, REED.
Do you want superior standing ability?
REDCOAT and REED lead. Short straw is not necessarily the stiffest.
See Table 7.
How much straw do you need?
From least to most height:	MONON,
KNOX '62, REDCOAT, REED, LA FORTE.
Do you want to seed early for pasture?
REED, MONON, and REDCOAT are resist-ant to the prevailing race A of Hessian fly. KNOX '62 is resistant to both races A and B of the fly and should be used in areas where a buildup of race B has occurred. IA FORTE and VERMILLION are
susceptible.
Do you want loose smut resistance?
LA FORTE has true resistance. REED and KNOX '62 have improved tolerance over DUAL and KNOX.
All recommended and acceptable varieties are winter hardy, although VERMILLION and possibly MONON have an advantage for late Seedings.
What are the comparative yields?
See the attached tables for your section of Indiana. REED has a slightly higher average yield in most of the state. Yields of early varieties were reduced in some areas by unusually late freezes in 1963.
Seed Certification is your Assurance of Varietal Purity
Your county Extension agent can supply names of certified seed growers. Generations of certified seed:
Registered 1  ; Registered2 ; certified. (Registered 1 is the first generation from foundation seed).
Recommended Varieties
MONON--Earliest in maturity and shortest in height of the varieties. Beardless, white-chaffed. Moderately stiff-strawed. Highly resistant to leaf rust in the mature plant stage; resistant to soil-borne mosaic; moderately resistant
Cooperative Extension Work in Agriculture and Home Economics, State of Indiana, Purdue University and U. S. Department of agriculture Cooperating. H. G. Diesslin, Director, Lafayette, Ind, Issued in furtherance of the Acts of May 8 and June 30, 1914.