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
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Rediscover Wheat: Research Highlighted During the 2015 Kansas 4-H Wheat Expo
August 11, 2015
Families from as far as Johnson County hit the road to Hays on Thursday, August 6 to learn about wheat research at Kansas State University’s Agricultural Research Center in Hays. The annual Kansas 4-…
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Kansas State University's leadership in wheat research recognized with $1.6 million grant
August 4, 2015
Kansas State University wheat researchers are leading efforts to develop a better understanding of the wheat genome. The National Science Foundation's Plant Genome Program awarded the researchers a…
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The long and short of wheat breeding in Hays
May 19, 2015
The next great wheat variety started out as a single cross between two parents. But before that variety is planted in a farmer’s field, it will have been selected and tested over ten to 12 years.
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Mixing experience and technology results in better wheat varieties for Kansas farmers
April 7, 2015
Kansas State University wheat breeder Allan Fritz has a lifetime of intuition and experience in developing new wheat varieties. But, thanks to research funded by Kansas wheat farmers through the…
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Kansas Wheat Innovation Center Greenhouse RFQ
March 4, 2015
KANSAS WHEAT INNOVATION CENTER GREENHOUSE REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS/PROPOSALS FOR DESIGN PROFESSIONAL SERVICES CONTRACT KANSAS WHEAT COMMISSION 1990 KIMBALL AVENUE MANHATTAN, KANSAS 66502
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Kansas State University's Everest and Danby are top Kansas planted wheats
February 26, 2015
Kansas Wheat Alliance varieties continue to be the leading hard red winter and hard white wheat varieties planted in the state of Kansas. Both developed by Kansas State University, the top hard red…
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Remotely capturing wheat’s potential
January 13, 2015
It's invisible to the human eye, but measured in microseconds, and helping shape the future of Kansas wheat varieties. Sounds like science fiction, but research funded by the Kansas Wheat Alliance is…
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