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Mark Neher, founder of Paramount Seed Farms planted his first certified seed wheat in the fall of 1946. It was a new variety called Wichita. lt was dry that fall. Very little growth appeared. The 1947 winter was also dry and strong winds were common. His Wichita field had to be chiseled (solid) to control wind erosion. Not a blade of live wheat could be seen in the early spring. Then it started to rain in the l947 spring. A few springs appeared between the chiseled clods. A miracle began to appear before his eyes. That field gave him a yield of 40 bpa (comparable to 80 bpa today), convincing him of the value of planting certified seed. We have been doing that ever since.
We believe the planting of top quality certified wheat seed can do the same for you!!!
Paramount Seed Farms, through network of Contract Growers, currently has varieties that have been bred and released by Agripro, Trio Research, Watley Seed, and Kansas State. All are adapted for growing on the Central and parts of the Southern High Plains.
For all detailed variety descriptions click: Paramount Seed Comparison Chart
We highly recommend that you spread your risk by planting more than one variety. There is NO variety that will be the best every year!! Plant most of your acres to what has, historically, done the best for you on your acres; but keep trying some new varieties so as to keep upgrading your production.
Listed below are varieties we currently have available. Call us about others:
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PUBLIC VARIETIES:
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| Fuller is a bronze-chaffed, semidwarf hard winter wheat from K-State, with much better shattering tolerance than Overley. It also tillers better than Overley and has smaller seed. It is medium in height with average straw strength, good drought tolerance, and good yield potential. Fuller is early maturing, heading a day later than Jagger. Fuller has fair to good winterhardiness. It has below average fall grazing. Fuller is moderately susceptible to acid soils. |
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| Jagger is a K-State release that is still popular in some areas of Oklahoma and Kansas. Jagger starts off fast both in the fall and in the spring, and so it can get hurt by late spring freezes. It has exceptional milling and baking qualities and very good drought tolerance. It has good performance on low pH soils. Jagger shatters easily, has below average straw strength, is susceptible to leaf rust and powdery mildew, and often test weights are below average. |
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| Overley is an early maturing variety from K-State, most closely resembling Jagger. It has good acid soil tolerance. It is resistant to stripe rust and has good test weight. Overley has fair winterhardiness and is characterized by large seed. It does not tiller well, shatters easily, and is very susceptible to head scab, freeze injury, and leaf rust. Overley is known for its exceptional milling and baking quality. |
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AgriPro PostRock has good general adaptation across most of the state of Kansas and in southern Nebraska. It is a very consistent variety and has a solid yield record. It has very good test weight and good aluminum tolerance. PostRock has intermediate resistance to leaf rust and moderate resistance to stripe rust. It has excellent straw strength, good winterhardiness, and good grazing potential in the fall. PostRock does well when planted late, and late planting could help avoid infection from barley yellow dwarf.
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| Long coleoptile. Good Straw strength. |
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If you plant winter wheat, you want the same agronomic qualities you expect from your spring wheat — disease resistance, short height and straw strength. AgriPro Hawken—no compromises.
- Very Good Test Weight and Protein
- Excellent Foliar Disease Package
- Excellent Straw Strength
- Good Winterhardiness
- Early Maturity
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Jagalene provides an unmatched combination of agronomics and yield, which has made money for farmers across the Great Plains.
- Hard red winter wheat
- High yield performance
- Very good test weight and protein
- Early maturity
- Semidwarf height with excellent straw strength
- Good drought tolerance
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TAM 111 is a high yielding, white-chaffed, hard red winter wheat variety, released by the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station in 2002. It has tall stature for a semi-dwarf variety, which in combination with excellent drought resistance makes it well suited to dryland production on the High Plains of Texas and north through the wheat belt of Kansas. It also has a strong irrigated yield record, and is unlikely to lodge or shatter. Thus, it is also a good choice for irrigated production, but should not be grown where leaf rust is a likely production constraint. Its medium maturity makes it less susceptible to late spring freezes than other popular cultivars, such as TAM 110 and Jagger. Grain processing attributes of TAM 111 are generally superior to those of previous popular varieties released by TAES.
TAM 111 is moderately resistant to wheat streak mosaic virus and barley yellow dwarf virus, and resistant to stripe rust. TAM 111 exhibits susceptible reactions to greenbug, Russian wheat aphid and Hessian fly. While it possesses leaf rust resistance genes, leaf rust races that are prevalent in the southern Great Plains have overcome these. |
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| TAM 112 has been exclusively licensed to Watley Seed Company.
TAM 112 Hard Red Winter Wheat has a very high grain and forage yield and has good milling and baking characteristics. It is widely adapted and had a superior grain yield in regional trials from central Texas to southern Nebraska in both irrigated and rainfed environments. It is resistant to greenbugs, possessing the same resistance genes as TAM 110. Although it is resistant to the prevalent races of leaf rust, new races which are virulent on Lr 41 (the gene present in TAM 112) are present in Texas and may increase in prevalence. It is susceptible to stripe rust. Due to its limited rust resistance, TAM 112 is recommended for the High Plains, but does perform well in other areas in the absence of rust pressure.
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| T81 has been a solid performer in the Western High Plains with a consistent yield record and good standability. Historically, it has scored near the top in K-State and Texas A&M Panhandle yield trials. It has excellent drought tolerance and good winter hardiness. T81 tillers very well and covers the ground quickly in the fall. Overall, it is an excellent choice for planting in either dryland or irrigated settings. |
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| T136 was developed by Trio Reseach and released in 2009. It is well adapted to the southern half of Kansas and Oklahoma. Though T136 would not be considered a “race horse” variety, it will produce a consistent yield that finishes well in dry years. It is an excellent choice when subsoil moisture conditions are dry at planting time. Along with a great shattering reputation, T136 has excellent drought tolerance and good straw strength. |
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| OTHER VARIETIES |
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| Armour is a short, early maturing wheat developed by WestBred and licensed to AGSECO in 2008. It is broadly adapted to the Central Plains and had an outstanding year in 2010, following good yield records in K-State performance plots in 2008 and 2009. It has done well in all of Kansas, eastern Colorado, the northern half of Oklahoma, and all of Nebraska. Armour is one of the few varieties resistant to the new race of stripe rust. It has excellent tolerance to low ph soils, exceptional straw strength, very good tillering, and good leaf rust and powdery mildew resistance. Armour has good drought tolerance, but it needs moisture at the time of spring greenup. It has good test weight. It is susceptible to bacterial blight. Armour offers excellent yield potential to the Central Plains region. |
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