Hard Red Winter WheatHard red winter wheat is grown principally in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas Colorado, Nebraska, Montana, South Dakota and Minnesota. This class of wheat is grown wherever the winters are not too severe because it yields more per acre than spring wheat.
This higher productivity occurs primarily because
- Winter wheat, which is sown in the fall, has a longer growing season than spring-sown wheat.
- Winter wheat matures before the onset of hot weather, drought and disease.
Hard red winter is the most important class of wheat grown in the United States and accounts for about 50% of the total wheat acreage in the country.
It is used for making bread and hard rolls. This class is divided on top three subclasses: dark hard winter wheat with 70% or more of dark, hard and vitreous kernels.
And yellow hard winter wheat with 40-75% of dark, hard and vitreous kernels a yellow hard winter wheat with less than 40% of dark, hard and vitreous kernels.
Hard Red Winter Wheat
