UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE
 in cooperation with
 STATE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATIONS
 
 Wheat Varieties Grown in Cooperative Plot and Nursery
 	Experiments in the Spring Wheat Region in 1976
 
 Hard Red Spring and Sawfly Wheat Results Compiled by:
 
 	R. E. Heiner, Research Geneticist and
 	Technical Advisor(TA) for Spring Wheat
 	F. A. Elsayed, Assistant Scientist
 
 This is a joint progress report of cooperative investigations underway in the State 
 Agricultural Experiment Stations and the Agricultural Research Service of the U.S. Department 
 of Agriculture containing preliminary data which have not been sufficiently confirmed to 
 justify general release; interpretations may be modified with additional experimentation. 
 Confirmed results will be published through established channels. The report is primarily a 
 tool for use of cooperators and their official staffs and for those persons having direct and 
 special interest in the development of agricultural research programs.
 
 This report includes data furnished by the State Agricultural Experiment Stations as well as by 
 the Agricultural Research Service and was compiled by the Agricultural Research Service, U. S. 
 Department of Agriculture. This report is not intended for publication and should not be 
 referred to in literature citations nor quoted in publicity or advertising. Use of the data may 
 be granted for certain purposes upon written request to the agency or agencies involved.
 
 St. Paul, Minnesota
 
 TABLE OF CONTENTS
 
 									Page
 
 Cooperating Agencies, Stations, and Personnel ---------------------	1
 
 The 1976 Crop ----------------------------------------------------	3
 
 The Uniform Regional Hard Red Spring Wheat Nursery --------------	7
 Table 1, Parts 1-21. Agronomic data -----------------------------	9
 Table 2, Average yields and bushel weights in 1976 & for the three-
      year period 1974-76 -----------------------------------------	30
 Table 3, Average of miscellaneous agronomic and disease reaction data	31
 Table 4, Part 1. Seedling reaction to stem rust ----------------- 	32
 	Part 2. Adult plant field reaction to stem rust ------- 	33
 	Part 3, Adult plant field reaction to leaf rust ------- 	34