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 National Sales and Marketing Manager gets back to his small grain roots Jeff Widder has been around small grains his whole life. Born and raised in southwestern Kansas surrounded by acres of crops, he started working in the sorghum fields when he was a teenager. “I grew up in agriculture,” says Widder. [...]
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), [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Balanced LCS hard red spring wheat selected as a 2019 western quality check variety The Wheat Quality Council has added LCS Rebel to its list of hard red spring quality checks — varieties that set the bar for end-use quality across the country. LCS Rebel was named a western quality check for 2019, [...]
My name is Hillary Booher and I am the new research assistant for the Northern Plains Region at LCS. I grew up on a watermelon farm in southern Indiana before attending college at Purdue University. I graduated with a bachelor of science in horticulture with a concentration in plant science. I started work with [...]
