2025 Foundation Seedstock Varieties

The CREC 2024 growing season started out with a near-perfect planting outlook in April. Planting progress really slowed with continued rain events, but was completed in May. The Carrington REC recorded 56 rain events from April 1 through September 30, with a total of 22.84 inches of rain. Adequate moisture produced good yields with respectable quality from timely fungicide applications. 

With seed conditioning currently in progress, we are seeing the fruits of our labor and we are pleased with the resulting products. For your spring 2025 seed planting needs, listed below are the foundation grade seed stock varieties that the CREC has available in our inventory.

Crops and Varieties available at CREC

Spring Wheat
Faller
ND Frohberg
Glenn
MN Rothsay
ND Stampede (new – being distributed by NDCISA through the county increase program)
ND Thresher

Durum
Divide
ND Riveland
ND Stanley

Barley
ABI Cardinal (through NDCISA)
CDC Fraser (through NDCISA)
ND Genesis
ND Treasure                                       

Flax
AAC Bright (yellow) (through NDCISA)
Omega (yellow)
CDC Rowland (brown) (through NDCISA)

Field Pea
Caphorn (yellow) (through NDCISA)
AAC Julius (yellow) (through NDCISA)
ND Victory (green)

Soybean – Conventional
ND Benson – 0.4
ND Dickey – 0.7
ND Rolette – 00.9
ND Stutsman – 0.7

Soybean – GT, RR1
ND21008GT20 – 00.8
ND2108GT73 – 0.8

Winter Rye
ND Dylan
ND Gardner

CREC has one new NDSU HRSW variety for sale in 2025. This new variety is protected with seed laws and must be sold as a class of certified seed. ND Stampede has been released and will be distributed through the counties this spring. Seed requests for this variety should be made through your local county agent. ND Stampede, developed by NDSU wheat breeder Dr. Andrew Green, has a high yield potential that is similar to Faller with higher protein. In other Faller comparisons, it is an earlier maturing variety that possesses shorter plant height, resulting in a 20% increase in straw strength. It has moderate resistance to Fusarium Head Blight (FHB), leaf and stem rust, but will need fungicide management for stripe rust. In 2023 statewide trials, it had a similar yield to LCS Trigger and LCS Buster, but with 2% higher protein. ND Stampede’s protein was at 14.18% vs. 12.12% and 12.13%. It also possesses excellent milling and baking qualities.

For NDCISA seed, you need to be either a member or an associate of the NDCISA to have access to their varieties from the CREC.  If you are interested in any of the above varieties, call the Carrington REC at 701-652-2951, e-mail myrna.friedt@ndsu.edu, or call Dave Copenhaver at 701-652-5853. Other cultivars and additional quantities may be available from other Research Extension Centers and the Agronomy Seed Farm. The NDSU Foundation Seedstocks Pricing Committee will set seed prices for this year’s seed soon and the prices will be published in the near future. Within the NDSU Foundation Seedstocks program, seed orders received by December 1 will be given preference and priority when allocating foundation seed. 

Dave Copenhaver
David.Copenhaver@ndsu.edu
Foundation Seedstock Manager