Dylan Larkin

Winter wheat in Oregon 🌾 📸: Collin Crocker #uswheat

When February feels like April, it’s a good time to be out in the plots. The wheat is looking unseasonably large!

Wheat grain mite has caused damage to a field in #lincolncountywa. This warm, wet winter has these creatures actively feeding in #wheat--and #croprotation could be a major factor. Info at smallgrains.wsu.edu/26mites/ #WAwheat #pnwwheat #wheatmites #wintergrainmite @WSUExtension

🚨 Stripe rust is here. Confirmed in eastern OR, with forecasts pointing to high pressure in 2026. Scout early, act fast on susceptible varieties—timing matters. Full report & recommendations: …u-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/blogs.dir/2823…

It looks like we’re getting an early start for stripe rust this year! It’ll be interesting to see how this looks in the spring.

Back where we belong.

ALL GRIT. NO QUIT.

Today the @uswheatassoc 2025 Wheat Improvement Team spoke to the KOFMIA group of millers and visited the Passion 5 bakery that uses 100% U.S. wheat in Seoul. Tomorrow we are off to Tokyo!

I’ve had the pleasure of representing @LimagrainWheat and talking to SE Asian millers and bakers who purchase US wheat as part of the @uswheatassoc 2025 Wheat Quality Improvement Team in Bangkok! I’ll also be visiting customers in Seoul and Tokyo over the next few days.

Wheat holds the most acreage of all crops planted in the Pacific Northwest (Idaho, Oregon, and Washington). 4.25 million acres were planted in the PNW in 2024. m.farms.com/news/wheat-is-…

Private wheat breeder LimaGrain Cereals Research Canada sees handful of approved varieties licensed grainswest.com/2024/11/expand… #varietydevelopment #wheatbreeding

Results are in! So proud of all our farmers! 🎉🌾 Congrats on dominating the winter wheat categories in this year's National Wheat Yield Contest! Shine takes 2 Bin Buster awards making it the top variety 4 years running! 🏆🏆🏆🏆 limagraincerealseeds.com/2024-national-…

💡 Thought of the day at #IWC2024Perth: we really need to get some sort of wheat trialing network going to formally connect Walla Walla, WA 🇺🇸 & Wagga Wagga, NSW 🇦🇺. What do you reckon @PhenologyisFun? Great overview of the @LimagrainWheat N American program from Dylan Larkin

@AlisonRBentley @PhenologyisFun @LimagrainWheat Let’s do it. Call it the W^6 Wagga Wagga Walla Walla Winter Wheat trial.

@PhenologyisFun @LimagrainWheat Cc @dylarkin to get this happening #WWWWWheat

I had the pleasure of speaking about @LimagrainWheat in North America and about how we are using collaboration to develop better wheat varieties for growers! #IWC2024Perth

A great overview on @LimagrainWheat by wheat breeder @dylarkin at #IWC2024Perth.

It’s that time of year when I get to spraypaint the wheat for head row selection!

Some photos of the aurora borealis from my backyard last night. #Auroraborealis #aurora #northenlights

@Sim2010Mike Probably poor lighting on my part, the spores are much lighter in person. Leaf rust rarely occurs this early. On the other hand, stripe rust usually starts appearing around this time in the PNW.

@dylarkin Top picture looks more like leaf rust to me, as the color is a darker orange than the rust below (in the blurred picture).

Today was another great day for looking at plots in Walla Walla and Milton-Freewater, OR. The wheat is looking awesome at 3 nodes. Also, we have our first sign of stripe rust! #wheat #striperust

@dawdge It’s still very early, but most of our varieties normally show pretty good tolerance. This plot specifically is UI Magic CL+, our susceptible check.

@dylarkin Any variety showing more tolerance?