ST. LOUIS (June 3, 2025) — While rotating chemistries is essential to help manage weeds in continuous wheat-growing regions, rotating genetics can also improve yield potential and provide better grain quality and disease tolerance packages.
The CoAXium® Wheat Production System, in rotation with the Clearfield® Plus Wheat Production System, helps to enable growers in continuous wheat production to manage weeds more effectively in their fields. Winter wheat growers looking for clean fields, higher yield potential and outstanding grain quality have proven-performing WestBred® Wheat brand CoAXium and Clearfield Plus variety options for planting in 2025.
“Whether or not it’s time to rotate chemistries, this season is a great time to look at planting herbicide-tolerant varieties that are bred differently to help with improved yield potential, grain quality and better agronomics,” said Mark Lubbers, WestBred
technical product manager. “In the Southern and Central regions, WB4445CLP and WB4739AX are solid rotation options offering good disease tolerance packages and broad adaptability with outstanding yield, quality and grazing potential.”
There is a strong lineup of winter wheat varieties available for planting in each region, and the WestBred Wheat brand continues to evaluate high-performing, herbicide tolerant varieties for its future product portfolio.
“Growers in the Central Plains and Southern regions looking for proven-performing wheat with outstanding forage potential have dual-purpose, herbicide-tolerant and conventional variety choices from WestBred Wheat,” said Lubbers. “These products come with solid disease tolerance packages, insect tolerances and good grain quality.
There are also solid varieties to plant on dryland acres with proven performance potential and key agronomic traits.”
Central Plains Region
- WB4445CLP is a Hard Red Winter Clearfield Plus Wheat variety with excellent milling and baking quality. Bred for the Central Plains West, this variety has very good Wheat Streak Mosaic Virus tolerance and very good drought tolerance and grazing potential.
- WB4347 is a Hard Red Winter Wheat variety with excellent yield potential and test weight. Best suited for the Central Plains West, this variety offers excellent drought tolerance as well as good Hessian fly and Wheat Streak Mosaic Virus tolerance.
- WB4444 is a Hard Red Winter variety with very good yield potential. Bred for the Central and Northern Plains West regions, this variety has excellent standability with a solid stem and very good sawfly tolerance.
- WB4540 is an Awnless Hard Red Winter Wheat variety with excellent yield and forage potential. Suited for the Northern and Central regions, this variety also has very good Yellow (Stripe) Rust and Soil-Borne Mosaic Virus tolerance plus good Fusarium Head Blight tolerance.
- WB4739AX is a Hard Red Winter Wheat variety with the CoAXium Herbicide trait for grass weed control. It offers very good yield potential, drought tolerance and test weight as well as solid fall grazing potential.
Southern Region
- WB4445CLP is a Hard Red Winter Clearfield Plus Wheat variety with excellent milling and baking quality. Bred for the Central Plains West, this variety has very good Wheat Streak Mosaic Virus tolerance and very good drought tolerance.
- WB4739AX is a Hard Red Winter Wheat variety with the CoAXium Herbicide trait for grass weed control that offers very good yield potential, drought tolerance and test weight. This product also has solid fall grazing potential.
- WB4440 is an Awnless Hard Red Winter Wheat variety with very good Hessian fly tolerance. Best suited for the Eastern Central and Southern Plains, it offers very good grain yield potential, high tillering for grazing and the potential for wheatlage.
- WB4650 is a Hard Red Winter Wheat variety adapted for the Central and Southern Plains. This awnless variety has excellent early-season grazing potential, excellent late-season forage production and very good grain yield potential. It also features excellent Soil-Borne Mosaic Virus tolerance and very good Wheat Streak Mosaic Virus tolerance.
- WB4422 is a consistent-performing medium-maturity Hard Red Winter Wheat that is broadly adapted across the Plains from east to west and north to south. This variety offers excellent yield potential, good drought tolerance and excellent standability.
- WB4401 is a medium-maturity Hard Red Winter Wheat adapted for the central and eastern portions of the Southern Plains, offering excellent yield potential, good grazing potential and excellent Fusarium Head Blight (Scab) tolerance.
- WB4792 is a mid-to-late-maturity Hard Red Winter Wheat for the western portion of the Southern Plains that offers excellent yield potential in low- and high-yield environments. A top variety pick by Texas A&M University, WB4792 is a high-performing WestBred Wheat product that offers a good disease tolerance package.
Northwest and Montana Regions
“Our Hard Red Winter Wheat varieties are top-end performers in yield potential, test weight and grain quality with solid disease tolerances,” said Justin Berg, WestBred technical product manager. “Growers planting Soft White Winter Wheat want excellent grain quality desired by end users, coupled with good yield potential and disease tolerance packages. That is what the WestBred Wheat variety lineup for the Northwest offers.”
- WB1621 is a mid-to-late-maturity Soft White Winter Wheat for dual-purpose forage and grain use that was rated most desirable in the 2024 Preferred Wheat Varieties* report. This awnless variety offers high yield potential and moderate tolerance to Yellow (Stripe) Rust.
- WB4640 is a Hard Red Winter Wheat with excellent yield potential and standability. This variety provides excellent test weight, protein content, and milling and baking quality and offers very good Fusarium Head Blight (Scab) tolerance.
- WB4401 is a medium-maturity Hard Red Winter Wheat with excellent yield potential and a very good disease tolerance package, including very good Hessian fly tolerance and good Fusarium Head Blight (Scab) tolerance.
- KELDIN, a perennial winner in the National Wheat Yield Contest, is a broadly adapted mid-to-late-maturity Hard Red Winter Wheat. Offering high yield potential in both irrigated and dryland fields, this variety has excellent
Powdery Mildew tolerance and baking quality.
- WB4727 is a Hard Red Winter Wheat variety adapted for Montana with excellent yield potential along with excellent standability. WB4727 is a key companion product to WB4619 and WB4422 with very good winter hardiness, test weight and protein content.
- WB4733CLP is a Hard Red Winter Clearfield Plus Wheat variety with excellent standability. This solid stem variety also has excellent wheat stem sawfly and Yellow (Stripe) Rust tolerance.
California
“California growers planting spring wheat have some proven-performing WestBred Wheat varieties to choose from to help make the most of every acre,” said Lubbers. “The lineup features good protein content and solid disease tolerance packages well adapted to the growing region.”
- WB9990 is a late-maturity, dual-purpose Hard Red Spring Wheat for forage and grain use with excellent test weight and good straw strength. This awnless variety also offers Yellow (Stripe) Rust and Leaf Rust tolerance.
- WB9727 is a mid-to-late-maturity Hard Red Spring Wheat with excellent yield potential and very good protein content. With excellent milling and baking quality, this variety is well adapted for California’s Sacramento Valley.
- WB9229 is a Hard Red Spring Wheat variety with very good yield potential and excellent protein content. This mid-to-early-maturing variety is adapted for the north and south areas.
- PACHECO is a late-maturity Triticale variety with excellent yield potential and test weight, an excellent disease tolerance package and good resistance to lodging.
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