High Cotton
Bearded Wheat

What does High Cotton have to offer?

• The increased yield of this variety is expected to offset potential declines in planted wheat acreage in the future and help maintain the nation’s current food supply.

• With yield, High Cotton exceeds Showdown, Smith’s Gold, Bentley and Gallagher wheat varieties by 5 to 13 bushels per acre. It performed at 17% above average in OSU statewide yield trials.

• Its test weight has averaged 1.2 pounds per bushel above the average research trials, and the Wheat Quality Council found it to have acceptable milling and baking attributes.

• It has dual resistance to leaf and stripe rust as well as resistance to other common wheat diseases in Oklahoma.

• High Cotton is a dual-purpose wheat that provides early grazing opportunities while sustaining winter dormancy.

Performance potential

High Cotton was created by breeding OSU wheat variety Ruby Lee with an experimental line developed in Turkey as part of the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center breeding program, the largest wheat breeding program in the world. This hybrid was then crossed with an OSU experimental line bred from a collection of Pioneer hard red winter wheat.

“High Cotton will allow wheat producers to reap the benefits of the most advanced wheat genetics currently on the market,” Carver said. “We hope that wheat growers from eastern Oklahoma to far western Oklahoma will have an interest in adopting High Cotton in their next variety lineup.”

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Planting Rate/acre:  60-120 lbs

Price Per lb

Any Amount Available