OSU variety tops 2012 wheat yield

With a yield of 157 bushels per acre, Oregon State University’s developing wheat variety number 08047p94 topped the charts in Whitman County samples grown by Washington State University researchers of this year’s winter wheat crop.

That yield was recorded from a university test plot near Lamont and helped the variety top yields in average production from the school’s five spots in lower-rainfall zones.

WSU tests a number of wheat varieties in different rainfall zones, and releases those results as the crops are harvested.

The goal, said Dr. Stephen Guy, WSU extension agronomist, is to provide...