Higher-yield varieties of wheat seeds that can’t be replanted are selling more and more each year over older varieties that can be replanted. According to O’Toole Seed owner Brian O’Toole, more and more farmers are going with certified seed-only varieties and taking them to market instead of choosing seeds that can be replanted. “We’re seeing more farmers buying these certified seed varieties, and these newer seeds have traits to them that the older don’t. Drought tolerance is a plus that comes with some of the Twentieth Century Genetics varieties that we’ve elected to sell. That carries on, it has a proven history in the western part of the state and it’s going to carry on,” O’Toole says about the trend. “If trends stay the way they did last winter it’s going to be a dry year. Being able to have that tool, to plant a variety that doesn’t take near the moisture or it has a root system that really goes down quite deep, that’s a very valuable asset.”
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