This session, focusing on the latest in hyrbid wheat, is jam-packed with important content with a full list of insightful presenters. Presentations include:

Stephen Baenziger, University of Nebraska-Lincoln:

• Updates on UNL’s wheat program
• Evolving threats and opportunities in HRW research in the Great Plains including role of hybrid wheat in the future.

David Bonnett, Hybrid Spring Wheat Breeder, BASF:

• Hybrid wheat history: Why does it work today when it didn’t in the past?
• Special considerations for spring wheat

Jessie Alt, Global Wheat Lead, Corteva

• Role of newer breeding techniques and genomic knowledge enabling and complementing hybrid wheat breeding

Paul Moreno, Syngenta

• Opportunities that hybrid wheat brings to farmers and wheat generally
• Why are the economics of hybrid wheat better today than in the past

Tom Greaves, Pitura Seeds (seed producer)

• Differences between hybrid and conventional seed production
• Opportunities that hybrid seed creates for the seed producer