Snowmass™ is PlainsGold’s leading hard white winter wheat variety and offers wheat farmers premium pricing through the CWRF / Ardent Mills Ultragrain® Premium Program. Snowmass™ combines good dryland yields and good test weights with excellent milling and baking characteristics that are so sought-after that Snowmass™ earns premium pricing. Snowmass™ showed industry leading Wheat Streak Mosaic Virus resistance in 2017.
Quick Facts about Snowmass
- Class: Hard White Winter
- Yield: Good
- Maturity: Medium
- Height: Medium-tall
- Straw Strength: Fair
- Test Weight: Very good
- Quality: Very good milling/baking
- Coleoptile Length: Medium Short
- Drought Tolerance: Good
- Pedigree: KS96HW94 /Trego / CO960293
- Stem Rust: Resistant
- Stripe Rust: Moderately susceptible
- Leaf Rust: Moderately susceptible
- RWA Resistance: Susceptible
- Wheat Streak Mosaic: Resistant