UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE

in cooperation with

STATE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATIONS

RESULTS FROM COOPERATIVE WHEAT VARIETAL
EXPERIMENTS IN THE WESTERN REGION
IN 2000

This is a joint progress report of cooperative investigations underway in the State Agricultural Experiment Stations and Agricultural Research Service, 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 to 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 Agricultural Research Service and was compiled by Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture.  The 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.

CONTENTS

Cooperating Agencies, Stations, and Personnel	3
Index of Tables by Nursery and Location	4
Introduction	5
Plot Management	6
Test Site Information	7
Western Regional Hard Winter Wheat Nursery	9
Western Regional Soft Winter Wheat Nursery	26
Western Regional Spring Wheat Nursery	43
Dwarf Bunt (Goates)	57
Stripe Rust (Chen)	58