OSU Agriculture News: OSU researchers seeking to make hops a new Oklahoma crop

By Alisa Boswell-Gore STILLWATER, Okla. – Oklahoma State University just kicked off its football season with a change to one of football’s biggest staples. Beer. Last month, Stillwater’s Iron Monk Brewing Company released a beer called 1890 Original, a crisp blonde ale brewed for OSU Cowboys, which is now the official craft beer offered at OSU football games. But what fans inside Boone Pickens Stadium don’t know is that the university has had…

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OSU on the forefront of developing higher quality wheat

By Alisa Boswell-Gore STILLWATER, Okla. – Wheat harvest is underway in Oklahoma, and as an appropriate prelude, members of the OSU Wheat Improvement Team are working on stronger, higher quality wheat varieties. Oklahoma State University wheat genetics chair Brett Carver shared with wheat producers at the recent Lahoma Field Day that his team of OSU wheat researchers have been breeding wheat varieties with exceptionally high gluten quality, excellent yield and reliable disease resistance. “With wheat, we can look at…

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