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Registration of ‘Willow Creek’ Forage Wheat

^a Animal & Range Sciences Dep., Montana State Univ., Bozeman, MT 59717-2900
^b Plant Sciences & Plant Pathology Dep., Montana State Univ., Bozeman, MT 59717-3140
^c Central Agricultural Research Center, 52583 Hwy. 87, Moccasin, MT 59462
^d Southern Agricultural Research Center, 748 Railroad Hwy., Huntley, MT 59037
^e (formerly Univ. Wyoming Research and Extension Center, Sheridan, WY), USDA-NRCS Plant Materials Center, 98 S. River Rd., Bridger, MT 59014
^f Northern Agricultural Research Center, 3848 Fort Circle, Havre, MT 59501-8409
^g Eastern Agricultural Research Center, 1501 N. Central, Sidney, MT 59270
^h Northwestern Agricultural Research Center, 4570 Montana 35, Kalispell, MT 59901
ⁱ Western Triangle Research Center, P.O. Box 974, Conrad, MT 59425
^j Williston Research Extension Center, 14120 Hwy. 2, Williston, ND 58801

^* Corresponding author (dcash{at}montana.edu).

ABSTRACT

‘Willow Creek’ forage winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) (Reg. No. CV-1032, PI 655073) was released by the Montana Agricultural Experiment Station. Awnletted cereal forages are widely used for hay production on integrated crop–livestock operations in the Northern Great Plains. Five awnletted winter wheat accessions were evaluated for forage characteristics in 1996 and 1997, and Willow Creek was selected directly from PI 306505. Willow Creek was evaluated in replicated trials for forage yield and quality, grain yield, and agronomic characteristics from 1998 through 2008. Willow Creek is an awnletted winter wheat cultivar with good performance as an annual hay crop under irrigated or rainfed conditions in Montana and Wyoming. This cultivar has excellent winterhardiness and is tall and late-maturing. Willow Creek has good forage quality characteristics suitable for use by livestock in winter maintenance diets.

Abbreviations: ADG, average daily gain • CP, crude protein • DM, dry matter • HRW, hard red winter • HWW, hard white winter • ISDMD, in situ dry matter disappearance • MAES, Montana Agricultural Experiment Station • SKCS, single kernel characterization system • SROB, single rep observation