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Kentucky Small Grain Growers Association
PO Box 90
Eastwood, KY 40018

Phone: 502-243-4150
FAX: 502-243-4149

info@kysmallgrains.org

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2010

Wheat Variety Test Results are In

(7.1.10) The official Kentucky Wheat Variety Test results are now available (in Excel tables) at www.uky.edu/ag/WheatVarietyTest. A summarized bulletin will be available at a later date.

According to Bill Bruening, wheat variety test coordinator at the University of Kentucky, no wheat variety testing program has ever released results in June; we are 3 weeks ahead of the norm.

"This feat would not be possible with out the support (upgrading combine technology) from KySGGA," said Bruening. "This is what the growers wanted, and is truly a success story. Releasing quality data in a timely fashion allows growers to make variety selection decisions and maximize potential production profitability. In the past, many variety selection decisions were made before this data was available."

Call for Kentucky Wheat Yield Contest Entries
Deadline is July 10
Rules & Entry Form

New Tool for Assessing Head Scab and DON Risk

(May 2010) Don Hershman, UK plant pathologist, says that growers should pay careful attention to head scab risk for the next 2 to 3 weeks (during wheat heading). An exciting new tool can be used to help determine scab risk and need to spray a fungicide: www.wheatscab.psu.edu and click on "Risk map tool" and then select Kentucky.

This disease forecasting model is made available by Penn State University, Ohio State University, Kansas State University, and the U.S. Wheat and Barley Scab Initiative. The model uses real-time weather data from numerous National Weather Service stations within each state. For Kentucky, weather data included in the disease model have been significantly “ramped-up” due to the addition of about 50 Kentucky Mesonet weather stations (www.kymesonet.org).

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