爱达荷州小麦行业对新品种寄予厚望
肖恩·埃利斯
爱达荷州农业局联合会
POCATELLO – Idaho wheat industry leaders believe a new wheat variety called “UI饼干” could have significant potential for a lot of the state’s grain farmers. The new variety was developed at the University of Idaho 研究 and Extension wheat breeding center in Aberdeen by researcher Jianli Chen and it has been licensed by the Idaho 小麦 Commission.
UI饼干 was released by the university last April and the wheat commission will start and manage the commercialization process for the new variety this year.
“我们对UI饼干寄予厚望,“杰内西”乔·安德森说, 他是北爱达荷州的农民，也是国际捕鲸委员会委员. “We’re happy to be able to provide value to the grower with this new variety.”
He said the variety was developed for irrigated land “but it performed well in both irrigated and dryland trials.”
Cathy Wilson说, 委员会研究合作主任, UI饼干在试验中获得了惊人的产量, 可与UI Stone媲美, and it has topped the yields of cereal grains in Idaho the past two years.
She said the new variety also has improved resistance to stripe rust and good tolerance to Fusarium head blight.
IWC Executive Director Casey Chumrau说 UI饼干 also stands out with easy threshing ability and exceptional end-use quality, 特别是, 顾名思义, 在饼干.
UI饼干是一种柔软的白色春小麦品种. 关于 65 percent of the wheat grown in Idaho last year was soft white.
“I think it really could benefit a lot of our growers,楚姆劳说.
小麦是该州的第一大农产品. 2 crop in terms of farm-gate receipts and the grain is an important part of many Idaho farmers’ crop rotations. 爱达荷州44个县中的42个县都有种植.
The IWC is funded by grower dollars and the commission spends about 30 percent of its annual research budget on wheat breeding programs that develop new varieties that grow well in Idaho.
U of I’s Aberdeen wheat breeding program is primarily funded through IWC dollars and through a research agreement between the two entities, the commission has always had the first right to negotiate an exclusive license for new varieties released by the program.
然而, the wheat commission has not exercised that right before because the IWC is not in the seed business.
但是对于UI饼干, the commission has decided to try a different approach and license the new variety, Chumrau说. 这样做的时候, the commission can set the parameters and protections around the new variety and act as a bridge between the breeding program and commercial seed dealers.
IWC决定让UI饼干真正公开发布, which means growers will be able to hold back seed from the variety for their own planting use the next year. Growers will also not be charged royalties for the variety as they would with other releases.
That will reduce the cost of seed for growers who purchase UI饼干 while hopefully at the same time providing them a new variety that performs well agronomically, Chumrau说.
“IWC took advantage of a unique circumstance to obtain the rights for UI饼干 and release it as a public release for farmers across the state without royalties or plant-back restrictions,IWC委员科里·克雷斯说, 一个来自罗克兰的种小麦的农民. “UI饼干 is a (soft white spring wheat) variety developed from grower funds and is being given back to the growers unrestricted.”
帮助农民了解品种对他们自己的影响, 该委员会今年将管理三个30英亩的种子试验. These trials will also expand the amount of registered seed for farmers who want to plant UI饼干 commercially.
Chumrau说 it will take about two years to produce enough registered seed for farmers to begin planting UI饼干 on a commercial basis.
The trials will help anchor the new variety in the market, Wilson said. “Then from there, the market will take it however it will take it.”
“The idea right now is to start increasing that seed production and create buzz around UI饼干 and hopefully show growers what this variety will do for them and how it will perform in their fields,楚姆劳说. “Then when it becomes commercially available in the next year or two, 如果种植者有兴趣的话，他们可以种植它.”
她说，通过这种新颖的UI饼干方法, the commission is trying to give back to growers who have invested so much money into variety development programs over the years.
“Our mission is to improve the profitability of wheat growers and if we can help in any way to improve their operations and reduce their input costs, 我们要这么做,楚姆劳说. “We don’t know if this is going to be a success but we’re thinking outside the box and we want to do something different that hopefully has great potential for the growers.”
She said the commission has seed samples available for farmers who want to do their own strip trials this year. Anyone interested in doing that can contact Wilson at 208-334-2353 or by email at 凯西.wilson@idahowheat.org.
Re-published with permission from The 爱达荷州农业局联合会.