OSU provides extensive support for wheat producers through the Small Grains and Wheat
Improvement Team programs. This site is designed to serve as a resource for anyone
interested in small grains production in the Southern Great Plains.
Oklahoma farmers sow approximately 4 million acres of winter wheat each year, making
wheat Oklahoma’s largest cash crop. Fall forage production potential is one of the
major considerations in deciding which variety to plant. Check out our Grain Yield and Forage Yield page to learn more about our variety testing results.
Visit our Wheat Variety Research Program page or choose one of the testing locations from the drop-down menu below.
Wheat Improvement research in Oklahoma is driven by an interdisciplinary team of scientists
(WIT) housed in OSU's Division of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, charged
with developing highly-adapted winter wheat cultivars with marketable grain-quality.
Showdown is a wheat variety developed by Oklahoma State University plant breeders
that builds upon foundational work performed by Kansas State University wheat breeders.
At Oklahoma State University’s 2022 Lahoma Field Day, wheat genetics chair Brett Carver
explains how OSU is on the verge of releasing new wheat varieties with higher gluten
quality.
Liuling Yan, a wheat molecular geneticist at Oklahoma State University, has discovered
and cloned the TaCol-B5 wheat gene, which increases wheat yield by more than 10%.
Wade Thomason joins semester recruitment activities for Agronomy Club and other organizations
in the OSU Plant and Soil Sciences Department during Ag Roundup.