Variety Selection

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UC Small Grain Variety Selection Resources

UC variety testing program

  • 2025 UC small grain variety trial results available here

  • Annual Statewide Testing Results: Grain and forage yields for common wheat, triticale, durum wheat and barley alongside observations of agronomic traits and disease reactions. Results are organized by trial year in tablular and graphical formats and include multi-year, multi-site summaries as well as single environment summaries of relative productivity, quality, disease resistance and agronomic traits for California small grain varieties.
  • California Certified Wheat Seed Guide (Archived for Accessibility)
  • Wheat Milling, Baking and Pasta Quality: Summaries of milling, baking and dough qualities of common wheat and durum wheat varieties grown under a wide range of California agroecological conditions.
  • Stress Stability Summaries (Common Wheat & Triticale): Results from side-by-side trials where common wheat and triticale varieties were grown under fully watered and fertilized conditions alongside trials grown under conditions of terminal drought stress or nitrogen stress. These trials help to identify varieties that perform well under a wide range of management conditions.
  • Organic small grain variety testing: Variety performance summaries of small grain varieties grown under organic management conditions.

Interactive website:

  • User-specified data exploration tool: Simple statistical summaries of variety performance on a single trial basis across multiple years. These summaries allow more customized exploration of the data and allow users to examine genotype x environment patterns in multi-year data.