RESULTS OF SPRING WHEAT VARIETIES GROWN IN COOPERATIVE PLOT AND NURSERY 
 EXPERIMENTS IN THE SPRING WHEAT REGION IN 1993
 
 The year 1993 was the 65th in the history of the uniform regional testing program. Data 
 summarized in this report were obtained from (1) the uniform regional hard red spring 
 nursery, and (2) the uniform regional durum nursery.
 
 NEW VARIETIES
 
 Hard Red Spring Wheat  -  NONE
 
 SPRING WHEAT PRODUCTION
 
 Spring Wheat Other Than Durum.
 
 Growers produced an estimated 579 million bushels (15.6 million metric tons), down 23 
 percent from the 1992 production and up 15 percent from 1991. Yield averaged 34 bushels 
 per acre, down 8 bushels per acre from 1992. Area harvested totaled 18.2 million acres 
 (7.1 million hectares), 3 percent less that the 18.7 million acres (7.32 million 
 hectares) in 1992.
 
 Seeding of the spring wheat ranged greatly from early in some of the drier areas to later 
 than normal. The early seeded wheat encountered reasonably good growing conditions until 
 mid-June. Cool wet weather followed in July, August and September in Minnesota and the 
 eastern portions of North and South Dakota. Fusarium head blight attacked wheat from the 
 southern to the northern growing areas, including Manitoba, Canada. The results were 
 devastating for both yield and quality of the grain. About 300 samples of wheat in 
 Minnesota were evaluated for DON and averaged higher than the acceptable limit for human 
 recommended guidelines (2ppm). Wheat planted somewhat later often escaped produced good 
 yields with higher test weight and acceptable DON levels. Leaf rust was also present in 
 epidemic proportions, but most of the spring wheats grown have adequate resistance. Loss 
 estimates from scab due decreased yield and quality to the just the Minnesota wheat crop 
 were estimated to exceed $300 million.
 
 The 1993 Spring Wheat Crop
 The Statistical Reporting Service, USDA, preliminary report:
 
 	                SPRING WHEAT OTHER THAN DURUM
 
 		Acres (1000)		Yield (BU/A)		Bushels (1000)
 		-----------------       ------------------      ------------------------
 State		1991	1992	1993	1991	1992	1993	1991	1992	1993
 
 Minnesota	2,070	2,800	2,500	31	50	33	64,170	137,500	75,900
 Montana		2,400	2,560	2,750	34	30	34	81,860	73,500	90,100
 North Dakota	6,850	9,200	9,700	31	42	32	212,350	282,200	291,200
 South Dakota	1,750	2,700	2,200	28	34	27	49,000	85,000	54,540
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 USA		15,875 15,100  18,698	33	42	34	504,565	755,218	579,060