Welcome to the Home Page of the Wheat IPM Team at Oklahoma State University. The Wheat IPM Team is highly interdisciplinary and is dedicated to the education of wheat producers in crop management concepts that maximize profitability for producers and minimize environmental contamination.

Oklahoma is second in the nation for the production of hard red winter wheat, grown on more than 7 million acres.  Oklahoma wheat can have a "dual purpose," that is, wheat may be planted as foliage for cattle grazing, for grain production, or for both.  The dual purpose system creates challenges for Oklahoma producers, related to production and to profitability.    Wheat that is managed for production of both forage and grain is usually seeded earlier in the fall than wheat that is managed for grain production alone.  Earlier planting predisposes the crop to additional stresses to a greater frequency and severity than might be expected in conventional grain-only systems.  Thus while dual-purpose wheat may provide stability through diversification, yield potential of available winter wheat varieties grown for dual-purpose in Oklahoma is seldom realized, and overall profitability of the system suffers. 
 

Wheat IPM Team

 
This page maintained by: Tom Royer, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology.
If you have questions/comments please contact tom.royer@okstate.edu.