Wheat Variety Selection: Building Your Lineup Like a Championship Football Team Spending a lot of time driving across the Central Plains gives me plenty of opportunities to think. Admittedly, this time of year, most of those thoughts revolve around two things: wheat varieties and college football. Recently, those two topics somehow merged into one [...]
Certified Wheat Seed vs. Saved Seed: Is It Worth the Cost? The cost of Certified Seed Wheat vs. Saved Seed For wheat producers, seed is one of the easiest inputs to scrutinize when commodity prices are tight, and weather conditions are less than ideal. Saving seed wheat from the previous crop can seem like [...]
Getting More Return from Grazing and Grain with Dual-Purpose Wheat Varieties in Oklahoma and Kansas I recently saw a Facebook post about using diversification to improve profitability, specifically by grazing wheat in a dual-purpose system. I agree with that approach—but I think there’s an opportunity to maximize profitability if we look closely at how [...]
We are proud to celebrate the outstanding achievements of our growers who placed in the 2025 National Wheat Yield Contest. This year’s contest, held by the National Wheat Foundation, continues to raise the bar in U.S. wheat production. At Limagrain Cereal Seeds, we’re excited to see the excellent results achieved by farmers who used [...]
2024 National Wheat Yield Contest ResultsLimagrain Cereal Seeds Tops the Charts in Winter Wheat Winning both winter wheat Bin Buster awards and many first-place trophies, farmers planting Limagrain Cereal Seeds varieties brought home a lot of gold in this year’s National Wheat Yield Contest. In the Winter Wheat-Dryland category, LCS Shine showed why it [...]
In its ongoing commitment to upholding the integrity of the CoAXium® Wheat Production System, the CoAXium® Group has recently addressed a significant violation of the terms of its Grower Stewardship Agreement. The Group’s investigation revealed that a grower in Garfield County, Oklahoma, contravened the policies of the CoAXium® Wheat Production System by saving, cleaning, [...]
LCS varieties had a bumper crop this year, as evidenced by a slate of National Wheat Yield Contest wins in dryland winter and spring wheat.Dick Judah of Carlton, Oregon landed the dryland winter wheat Bin Buster award with 173.77 bushels per acre (bu/ac) of LCS Shine. Judah was also the 1st place winner in the [...]
For Barley, LCS is King in New York Top Grain Yielding Barley in Cornell University Trials - Once again, defending its throne as the best barley in New York, LCS has been crowned the King of grain yield in the 2023 Winter Malting Barley Regional Trials conducted by Cornell University. Historically, LCS barley varieties have [...]
Steel is the New Gold-Standard in K-State Trial - LCS Steel AX has achieved a commanding victory as the best yielding wheat in Kansas State's Wheat Variety Tests for Sedgwick and Sumner County. Using our cutting-edge weed control system, CoAXium, LCS Steel AX has outperformed competitors with an extraordinary average yield, reaffirming that when [...]
The new regional commercial manager for the Central Plains has a degree in agronomy and a passion for wheat Dan Dall has joined the Limagrain Cereal Seeds (LCS) team as the Central Plains regional commercial manager. A Kansas native, Dall has always felt at home in the field. “My family didn’t have a farm, [...]
