Rye

BATES RYE - is a winter rye that was developed by the Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation. Its main advantage is greater total annual forage production along with improved fall and winter production as well as increased spring production. Bates has been clearly superior to Maton, Bonel, and Elbon in forage yields. It is slightly higher in crude protein than Maton, Bonel and Elbon and in grazing demonstrations palatability of Bates is excellent. Bates has shown no winter kill, but has shown slightly more winter damage than Maton, Bonel, and Elbon. Bates rye is a public variety, and Foundation Seed is maintained at Texas Foundation Seed Service.

Barley
(Hordeum vulgare L.)

TAMBAR 500 - is an improved, six-rowed, winter barley with high grain and forage yields, increased disease resistance and winterhardiness. Its grain yield averaged 5 bu/acre higher than Post (the most widely-grown barley in Texas) at Bushland and Chillicothe, and 8 bu/acre above Post at Dallas and Prosper over the 4-year period from 1987-1990. It has better winterhardiness and increased resistance to barley yellow dwarf virus than any other currently available winter barley. It produces more total forage than Tambar 401 or Tambar 402. Tambar 500 has wide adaptation and can be produced in those areas of Texas wherever winter barleys are grown. Tambar 500 is a public variety.

TAMBAR 501 - was released by the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station in August 2001. Tambar 501 is a feed-type barley that has a combination of high grain yield, early maturity, good winter hardiness, and good disease resistance. Tambar 501 has semi-prostrate early growth, and in grain yield tests over 4 years and 22 locations, has shown to be higher in grain yield and test weight than Post or Tambar 500. Similarly, winterhardiness for Tambar 501 when measured on a 0-to-5 scale (where 0=no damage and 5=plant death from cold damage) has averaged a 1.5 for Tambar 501 compared to a 2.5 rating for Post 90 and Tambar 500. Tambar 501 has expressed good tolerance to barley yellow dwarf virus, has shown resistance to leaf rust, and is moderately resistant to net blotch, spot blotch, and scald. Application for U.S. Plant Variety Protection has been made. Tambar 501 is a licensed product to Paramount Seed of Quinter, Kansas. For seed availability and royalty information, contact Paramount Seed at 1-785-754-2151 or email Paramnt@ruraltel.net. Visit Paramount Seed Farms website at http://www.paramountseedfarms.com.

Oats

TAMO 397 - was released in 1997 by the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station (TAES). TAMO 397 has the best crown rust and stem rust resistance of any available variety. Crown rust and stem rust are frequently damaging in the area south of the College Station-Austin line. This variety has performed particularly well in this area. With excellent rust resistance, TAMO 397 shows higher test weights and forage yields. TAMO 397 has excellent straw strength and stands very well despite its tall height, making TAMO 397 desirable for producing oat hay or oat silage. TAMO 397 is adapted to all areas south of Waco, Texas. TAMO 397, with its excellent rust resistance is the best oat for the Gulf Coast and central areas of Texas where crown and stem rust have been a problem. TAMO 397 is protected under the Plant Variety Protection Act, and must be sold in certified classes of seed only. TAMO 397 is one of the releases protected under a non-exclusive license agreement and requires a royalty of $.01 per pound be paid to TAES.

DALLAS OAT - is a new winter oat with high grain yields and good forage yields in North Texas and southeastern United States. Characteristics include: Tolerance to freezing temperatures and good winter hardiness, good tolerance to barley yellow dwarf virus, good test weight and medium maturity. This cultivar should remove some of the risk associated with winter oat production in the more northern parts of Texas and the southeast. Test results from North Texas trials indicate a 10.9-bu/ac advantage over 833, 12.8 bu/ac over Ozark, 18.1 bu/ac over Okay, 26.8 bu/ac over Coker 716 and 29.1 bu/ac over Cimarron. It must be made clear that even the most winter hardy oat variety is still not as hardy as most winter wheat varieties. This variety is protected under PVP title V and has a royalty of $.01 per pound of seed sold under a non-exclusive license agreement.

Wheat

TAM 400 - is a hard red winter wheat variety developed by Texas A&M University. TAM 400 combines excellent grain yield potential with very high test weight and outstanding resistance to Hessian fly. Its tolerance to grazing in A&M trials in central Texas has been excellent. TAM 400 is protected under PVP title V, and can be sold by variety name only as certified classes of seed. TAM 400 is licensed under an exclusive agreement to AgriPro, and is made available through AgriPro's extensive system of seed associates. To contact AgriPro, please call 940-552-8881. Visit their website at http://www.agriprowheat.com.

LOCKETT WHEAT - is a new awnless, late maturing, semi-dwarf hard red winter wheat with bronze chaff. Characteristics include: high yields, leaf rust resistance, and high quantities of whole season forage. Lockett wheat is recommended for use as a grazing wheat adapted to the Rolling Plains of Texas. This variety is protected under PVP title V, and can be sold by variety name only as certified classes of seed. Lockett is covered under a non-exclusive license agreement, and requires a royalty payment to the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station of $.01 per pound of certified or registered seed sold.

‘STURDY 2K’

‘Sturdy 2K’ is a hard red winter, semidwarf wheat, having strong straw, resistance to shattering, durable leaf rust resistance, and very good forage production. ‘Sturdy 2K’ was developed by TAES-Dallas from a selection out of ‘Sturdy’, a variety released for production in Texas in 1966. The original ‘Sturdy’ was the first semidwarf, hard red winter wheat available for growers in the United States. At the time of its release from TAES-Amarillo, ‘Sturdy’ was heterogeneous for resistance to leaf rust. Scientists at TAES-Dallas selected and purified individual lines from ‘Sturdy’ specifically having genes for long-lasting leaf rust resistance. ‘Sturdy 2K’ is not immune to leaf rust, rather leaf rust can only grow very slowly on ‘Sturdy 2K’ seldom if ever reaching damaging levels. ‘Sturdy 2K’ has very good hard red wheat quality and is adapted to all wheat growing regions of Texas, with the exception of far, southeast Texas, where the variety may not vernalize properly.

‘Sturdy 2K’ will be submitted to the PVP office for protection under PVP title V. ‘Sturdy 2K’ had been licensed by the Technology Licensing Office of the Texas A&M University System to a group of Texas seed companies including Turner Seed Co., Inc of Breckenridge, TX, Justin Seed Co., Inc. of Justin. TX., and Abilene Ag Supply, Inc. of Abilene, TX. Certified classes of planting seed of Sturdy 2K should be available for fall planting in 2004.

TAM 110 - is an awned, semi-dwarf, red chaffed wheat closely related to TAM 107. TAM 110 is resistant to current greenbug biotypes and is best adapted to dryland production in the High Plains. It has been found to exceed the quality of TAM W 101, TAM 107, TAM 200 and Siouxland 89 in water absorption, mixing tolerance, loaf grain characteristics, and has generally been at least equivalent to these varieties in other quality parameters. TAM 110 has consistently high dryland yields equivalent to the best available varieties. These include early maturity, outstanding winter hardiness and good milling and baking quality. TAM 110 is protected under PVP title V and may be sold as certified classes of seed only. TAM 110 is covered, in Texas, under a non-exclusive license agreement and has royalty due to the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station of $.01 per pound of certified or registered seed produced and sold. For seed availability in the states of Kansas, Oklahoma, and Colorado, contact AGSECO, INC., the exclusive licensee for TAM 110 in those 3 states. AGSECO may be contacted at 800-962-5429 or via email at agseco@ckt.net.

TAM 111 - Hard Red Winter Wheat - 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.

Currently, protection of TAM 111 is being sought under Title V of the U.S. Plant Variety Protection Act. Seed of TAM 111 may be sold only by variety name as a class of certified seed. The Technology Licensing Office at Texas A&M University is drafting licensing agreements for TAM 111, and Foundation Seed for TAM 111 will be available for fall planting 2003.

TAM 200 - is a high yielding, white chaffed, semi-dwarf with relatively small seed, but with high test weights. Production considerations such as winter hardiness have not been limiting for TAM 200 in any area of Texas. Initial research results indicate that TAM 200 is tolerant to relatively high temperatures and drought and is not prone to lodge under normal production situations. TAM 200 is immune to Biotype C greenbugs, but is susceptible to Biotype E. TAM 200 is also susceptible to Hessian fly. Tam 200 is resistant to the races of powdery mildew prevalent in Texas and to several races of stem rust.

TAM 202 - is a high yielding, white chaffed, semi-dwarf hard red winter wheat, which shows resistance to stem rust, powdery mildew, leaf rust, and Biotype C greenbugs. It has a high grain yield potential similar to TAM 200 but with better overall milling and baking characteristics, harder grain and a lower propensity to lodge. Its primary area of adaptation is the Rolling Plains of Texas and under irrigation on the High Plains of Texas. It is tolerant of aluminum toxic soils. TAM 202 is protected under PVP title V, and may be sold as certified classes of seed only. TAM 202 is covered under a non-exclusive license agreement and requires payment of royalties to the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station of $.005 per pound for certified or registered seed produced and sold.

TAM 302 - is an awned, semi-dwarf hard red winter wheat with white chaff and maturity similar to 2163. Characteristics include: high grain yields (better than or equal to the best commercial hard red winter wheat varieties available), good protection to leaf rust, powdery mildew, yellow dwarf, soilborne mosaic, and wheat streak mosaic, resistance to lodging or shattering, good level of tolerance to acid soils, good hard red winter wheat quality. In Texas, TAM 302 is well adapted to all wheat growing areas north of approximately the 30th parallel. This variety is protected under PVP title V and may be sold in certified classes of seed only. TAM 302 is covered under a non-exclusive license agreement and requires payment of royalties to the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station of $.01 per pound for certified or registered seed produced and sold.

This dual purpose winter triticale was developed at the Vernon Center of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station. The primary use will be as a winter forage crop in winter cereal production systems in Texas and similar areas in adjacent states. Forage yield and disease resistance is excellent. Grain yield and test weight has been above average in comparison to other triticale varieties, especially when subjected to high temperatures during grain fill. TAMcale 5019 is very similar to TAMcale 6331 but TAMcale 5019 tends to have slightly more fall forage production.

This dual purpose winter triticale was developed at the Vernon Center of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station. The primary use will be as a winter forage crop in winter cereal production systems in Texas and similar areas in adjacent states. Forage yield and disease resistance is excellent. Grain yield and test weight has been above average in comparison to other triticale varieties, especially when subjected to high temperatures during grain fill. TAMcale 6331 is very similar to TAMcale 5019 but TAMcale 6331 tends to have slightly more spring forage production.

Both TAMcale 5019 and TAMcale 6331 have been licensed to AgriPro Wheat and Certified classes of seed will be available from the AgriPro Wheat network of Associates for planting in the Fall of 2004.