Wheat growers of the Pacific Northwest have been hearing about the CoAXium® Wheat Production System at industry meetings and field days for the past four years. Aggressor® herbicide’s effectiveness at controlling grassy weeds was clearly demonstrated and excitement for CoAXium was high, but varieties were limited. Only hard red winter wheat lines in a [...]
Today, the National Wheat Foundation hosted a virtual awards ceremony for the National Wheat Yield Contest winners. Limagrain Cereal Seed (LCS) was honored to be the genetic provider of three contest winners! Winning varieties LCS Shine (SWW), [...]
Get to know our new Regional Commercial Manager for the Central Plains, Nathan Miller. Nathan will now be your go-to person for all things LCS in the Central Plains. . . Hello, my name is Nathan Miller and I am the Regional Commercial Manager for the Central Plains, connecting farmers with wheat [...]
Russell Oberg, our Regional Commercial Manager (RCM) for the Northern Plains, is in the middle of his sales season for hard red spring wheat seed during a global pandemic. But if you’ve met Russell, you know he always has a positive spin on things. Read on to learn about Russell’s thoughts and experiences during [...]
New varieties and more… Anyone that knows me knows that I’m not the “blogging type.” It reminds me too much of all the papers I had to write in college as an ag student, and frankly, I’d rather be beaten with a stick than write another paper. However, this one is a little [...]
Meet the Newest Member of the LCS Team! My name is Michelle Shepherd and I am the new research associate for the Midwest & Eastern Region. I grew up in Richwood, a small rural town in central Ohio. My passion for agriculture originates from spending a lot of time on my grandpa’s grain [...]
Year End Wishes from The Northern Plains This time of year, everyone should be excited about the new farming year of 2020. Growers should be considering what did well last year, what could have been improved, and deciding on what to plant for next year. But instead we cannot get 2019 over with fast enough [...]
A closer look at some of Limagrain Cereal Seed’s soft white winter wheats. The Pacific Northwest has more varying microclimates than any other wheat producing region in the US. Growing conditions range from high precipitation with cold winters to low rainfall with severe heat and anything in between. In addition, there is the challenge of [...]
The collaboration between the University of Idaho (UI) and Limagrain Cereal Seeds (LCS) is a prime example of shared success; benefiting the UI, LCS and most importantly, Idaho wheat growers. In 2012, the Idaho Wheat Commission (IWC) worked with the University of Idaho (UI) to establish a collaboration with the international wheat and barley breeding [...]
Wheat Marker Assisted Selection Project Leader & Wheat Breeder Assistant - Aurélie Décultot We might have already met a couple of years ago in Walla Walla, WA. I started as an intern for Limagrain in charge of a drought resistance study in the Pacific Northwest Wheat Region. That was my first experience with [...]
