Idaho Foundation Seed Program
Idaho Foundation Seed Program
The Foundation Seed Program maintains approximately 120 varieties of wheat, barley, oats, beans, potatoes, peas, chickpeas, lentils, rapeseed, grasses, forbs and forage legumes. The majority of seed production is done on University of Idaho owned farms by research and Extension staff. All breeder and foundation class seed fields are inspected by the Idaho Crop Improvement Association. Each center has become somewhat specialized, though many crops may be produced at multiple locations.
The Idaho Foundation Seed Program is based at the Kimberly Research and Extension Center and is responsible for transfer of crop varieties from breeding programs to producers.
Seed varieties
Discover the variety of seeds available for purchase according to fall or spring crops. Requests are allocated based on seed availability and demand, and distributed on a first-come, first-served basis. Fill out the corresponding form to request seed.
Fall crops
Forbs
- Appar
- Clearwater
- Delar
- Richfield
- Maple Grove flax
- Amethyst
- Soda Springs
Grass
- Anatone
- Bannock
- Ephraim
- Goldar
- Magnar
- Nezpar
- Palute
- Recovery
- Regar
- Rush
- Sodar
- Tegmar
- Vavilov II
Hard red winter wheat
- Boundary
- Bonneville
- Greenville
- Juniper
- UI SRG
Soft white winter wheat
- Varsity Idaho Bulldog — LCS (license required)
- Varsity Idaho Frost — LCS (license required)
- Brundage
- Brundage 96
- Bruneau
- Lambert
- Simon
- Stephens
- UI-WSU Huffman — (license required)
- UI Magic — LCS (license required)
- UI Sparrow (license required)
Hard white winter wheat
- UI Silver
- UI Bronze Jade
- UI Grace CL
- UI Darwin
Clearfield varieties
- UICF Brundage (CL) (license required)
- UICF Lambert (CL) (license required)
- UI Castle (CL+) — LCS (license required)
- UI Magic (CL+) — LCS (license required)
- UI Palouse (CL*) — LCS (license required)
Winter barley
- Charles (malt)
- Eight-Twelve (feed)
- Endeavor (malt)
Bean varieties
Black
- Eclipse — https://www.ag.ndsu.edu/fss/ndsu-foundation-seed
- UI 911
Small Red
- NW 63
- UI 228
- UI 239
Pinto
- Bill Z — https://www.ag.ndsu.edu/fss/ndsu-foundation-seed
- Crossant — https://www.ag.ndsu.edu/fss/ndsu-foundation-seed
- Kimberly
- UI 196
- Othello
- Shoshone
- Nezperce
- Blackfoot
- Stampede — https://www.ag.ndsu.edu/fss/ndsu-foundation-seed
- Palomino — https://www.ag.ndsu.edu/fss/ndsu-foundation-seed
Great Northern
- Panhandle
Pink
- UI 537
- Viva
Yellow
- Patron
Chickpeas and peas
Chickpeas
- Sierra
Peas
- Cascadia
- Oregon Giant
- OR Sugar Pod II
Forbs
- Appar
- Clearwater
- Delar
- Richfield
- Maple Grove flax
- Amethyst
- Soda Springs
Grass
- Anatone
- Bannock
- Ephraim
- Goldar
- Magnar
- Nezpar
- Palute
- Recovery
- Regar
- Rush
- Sodar
- Tegmar
- Vavilov II
Hard white spring wheat
- Lochsa
- UI Platinum
Oat
- Ajay
- Cayuse
- Lamont
- Maverick
- Monico
- Monida
- Otana
- Powell
- Provena
Soft white spring wheat
- Alpowa
- Alturas
- Cataldo
- Centennial
- Dirkwin
- Jubilee
- Penawawa
- Twin
- UI Cookie (license required)
- UI Pettit
- UI Stone
Spring barley
- Burton
- Camas
- Clearwater
- Colter
- Creel
- Kardia
- Goldenhart
- Herald
- Julie
- Lenetah
- Tetonia
- Transit
- Merem
- Harriman
- Sawtooth
For licensing contact the U of I Office of Technology Transfer or LCS/Limagrain at 970-498-2204.
Seed warehouses
Physical addresses:
Aberdeen Warehouse
208-397-4181
rgamble@uidaho.edu
1693 S 2700 W
Aberdeen, ID 83210
Kimberly Warehouse
208-423-6607
sdrown@uidaho.edu
3806 N 3600 E
Kimberly, ID 83341
Moscow Warehouse
208-885-3276
msaam@uidaho.edu
1025 Plant Science Rd
Moscow, ID 83843
Tetonia Warehouse
208-456-2879
tetonia@uidaho.edu
8888 W Highway 33
Tetonia, ID 83452
Kurtis Schroeder
Mark Saam
Chad A. Jackson
Todd Carter
Resources
Breeding programs
- Brassica Breeding and Research (canola, rapeseed, mustard and biodiesel)
- Wheat breeding
Seed certification in Idaho
Variety testing data