Wheat growers increase research funding to CSU through check-off

CENTENNIAL – Colorado wheat growers, through the Colorado Wheat
Administrative Committee, are investing $387,000 for research at
Colorado State University by means of a producer check-off program.

Royalties from new seed varieties developed by the CSU wheat breeding
program are contributing another $266,000. In addition, the CWAC
established a separate reserve of $400,000 “to ensure continuous and
uninterrupted funding of this important research.”

“Additional funding from the increased check-off has allowed dramatic
changes in the breeding program,´ said Richard Starkebaum, CWAC
president. “From the addition of new field trials, the implementation of
a drought and high-temperature stress tolerance research program and
the use of DNA molecular marker screening technology to develop new
traits more quickly, we are able to continue to support a world-class
wheat breeding program at CSU.”

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Between 2006 and 2009, CWAC’s research investment at CSU has increased
by nearly 500 percent.