Competition trials of fifteen cultivars of triticale and one cultivar of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) were carried out without irrigation in two different areas of the State of São Paulo, in 1973. The wheat cultivar IAC-5 and the triticale cultivar I-44424 showed good grain production per hectare. There were no significant differences among the treatments in relation to straw production per area. The cultivars of triticale presented good resistance to stem and leaf rusts but their grains showed a wrinkled surface. The degree of wrinkledness varied from cultivar to cultivar.