SY Monument is broadly adapted with good yields across the area of adaptation. It has white chaff and is a medium-late maturating variety. It is a a high tillering wheat with good head size and very good test weight patterns. U.S. Variety Protection Applied For (PVPA 1994). Certificate No. 201400332. SY Monument can only be sold as a class of certified seed.
- Moderate resistance to leaf and stripe rust
- Excellent acid soil tolerance
- Excellent Soil-Borne Wheat Mosaic Virus resistance
- Good winter hardiness
Contact the following certified seed growers for this variety:
- Prairie Sky Seed, Hemingford, 308-487-3705
- Luhrs Cert. Seed & Cond., Imperial, 308-882-5917
- Arrow Seed Company, Broken Bow, 308-872-6826
- Von Johnson, Cambridge, 308-697-4654
- Anderson Seed, Odell, 402-239-4865
- Husa Seed Farms, Barneston, 402-674-3188
- Nelson Certified Seed, Wallace, 308-539-1847
- Tom Bargen Trucking, Nora, 402-469-8153
- Peters Seed Farms, Inc., McCook, 308-340-6834
- Maschmann Mills, Deshler, 402-365-4369
- Polansky Seed, Belleville, KS, 785-527-2271
- Leon Lutkemeier, Bladen, 402-756-8488
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