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            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 1994
 
    Hard Spring Wheat Results Coordinated and Compiled by:
         R.H. Busch, Research Geneticist and Professor
                              and
                 G. Linkert, Junior Scientist
                               
                               
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 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 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.
 
 Agricultural Research Service
 U.S. Department of Agriculture
 North Central Region
 St. Paul, Minnesota
 
 
 CONTENTS
 
 Cooperating Agencies, Stations and Personnel
 
 
 Entries and Description of New Varieties
 
 
 The 1994 Crop
 
 
 The Uniform Regional Hard Red Spring Wheat Nursery
 
 
 Table 1 - Location and Comparative plot management data
 
 
 Table 2 - Parts 1-25 - Agronomic data
 
 Table 3 - Part 1 - Mean Yields and Bushel Weights in 1993-
      1994, for entries in the URHRSWPN
 
 Table 3 - Part 2 - Stability Parameters
 
 Table 4 - Part 1 - Seedling stem rust reactions
 
 Table 4 - Part 2 - Adult stem rust reactions
 
 Table 4 - Part 3 - Adult leaf rust reactions
 
 Table 4 - Part 4 - Fusarium head blight reactions