Vance and Louise Ehmke at Ehmke Seed are anxiously looking forward to wheat harvest this year and are even more excited to see how the new K-State wheat variety KS Bill Snyder does. The variety, named after the legendary KSU football coach, promises very high yields and other strong traits like drought hardiness.
The Ehmkes were selected as one of only eight certified seed wheat growers in western Kansas to get a limited supply of the highly sought after Foundation seed. In order to get the maximum production out of their limited supply, Ehmke Seed is having the seed grown under irrigation.
Developed at K-State’s Hays Experiment Station by Dr. Guorong Zhang, KS Bill Snyder is a medium maturity, medium-short variety with moderate resistance to wheat streak mosaic virus and intermediate resistance to stripe, leaf and stem rust. Most importantly, it was the No. 1 yielder in the 2022 Southern Regional Performance Nursery.
