Mission:

Assessing Agronomic Practices to Advance Cereal Production in Montana

Current Research Projects:

1. Effects of differing systems on crop and variety performance under diverse environments represented across the Western Triangle Agricultural Region of Montana.

2. Potential fit of other materials, concepts and techniques with various cropping systems employed for cereal crop production.

3. Cover crops water usage with respect to different termination dates.

4. Evaluate green and grow bio-stimulant.

Cereal Variety Performance Evaluations:

Hard Red & Hard White Winter Wheat, Intrastate, Advanced, and Preliminary A Trials

Off-station winter wheat cultivars evaluation

Winter cereal forage cultivars evaluation

Hard Red & Hard White Spring Wheat, Annual Yield Trials

Off-station spring wheat cultivars evaluation for dry and irrigated land

Durum cultivars evaluation

Malt and feed barley, dryland and irrigated intrastate trials

Hulless and food barley, dryland and irrigated intrastate trials

Off-station spring barley cultivars evaluation for dry and irrigated lands

Cultivars evaluation for wheat midge resistance

Oilseed Varieties:

Canola, Intrastate Variety Trials