Improving wheat producer productivity and profitability through wheat research is at the heart of the mission of the Kansas Wheat Commission.
Each year, Kansas Wheat provides nearly $2 million in funding for research projects, such as wheat breeding, wheat quality, disease screening, insect research, phenotyping, genotyping and many others.
Recent news
Another first at the Kansas Wheat Innovation Center
August 21, 2013
The farmer-owned Kansas Wheat Innovation Center in Manhattan has already been a success with the establishment of a double haploid business. This week, K-State announced that the Center will soon…
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K-State researchers find gene resistance to UG99
July 2, 2013
MANHATTAN – A Kansas State University researcher is part of a team that has identified a gene that gives wheat plants resistance to Ug99, one of the world’s most deadly races of wheat stem rust.
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ADM contributes $325,000 to K-State white wheat breeding program
June 2, 2013
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. - Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) has announced a $325,000 investment in the Kansas Wheat Commission Research Foundation that will be used to strengthen the hard white wheat…
