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 1996
   
      Hard Spring Wheat Results Coordinated and Compiled by:
   
                  R. H. Busch, Research Geneticist
                                and
                       G. Linkert, Scientist
   
   
                  Durum Spring Wheat Coordinated by: E. Elias,
                     Associate Professor
                     
   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