Everest

Everest, released in 2009 by the Kansas State’s Wildcat Genetics team at the Kansas Wheat Alliance, is an early maturing, high yield potential hard red winter wheat. Everest has a very good disease package, with good tolerance to barley yellow dwarf, Fusarium Head Blight (head scab) and resistant to Hessian Fly. Everest’s only real downfall is that it is susceptible to Tan Spot, and has only average tolerance to droughty conditions.

Well-suited for irrigation in the western third of Kansas, Everest has excellent potential on dryland farming operations in the eastern two-thirds of Kansas and southeast Nebraska.