Oklahoma State University Agriculture will launch Orange Blossom CL+ this summer, a new wheat variety with high yield potential, strong tolerance to leaf rust, stripe rust and spring freezes, and good milling quality.
OSU researchers are studying using legume cover crops in the summer to fix nitrogen in the soil to minimize the amount of fertilizer producers need to put down for planting wheat in the fall. They are using chambers to capture and measure carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide emissions in wheat fields.
Oklahoma State University Agriculture recently released Scab Stryker, a wheat variety resistant to the fungal disease fusarium head blight. Scab Stryker research trials performed the best against head scab for four years in a row.