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 1997
 
           Hard Spring Wheat Results Coordinated and Compiled by:
 
               R. H. Busch, Research Geneticist and Professor
                                     and
                          G. L. 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