The best W. Wheat varieties for no-till?

I have crusoe and skyfall, the skyfall looks good, but the crusoe looks better.

Simon C posted some interesting results last year.
http://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/no-till-variety-trial.30773/



I am seeing a fair difference in the growth between the three varieties growing here, but each one planted after different crops and conditions, so not much of a comparision.

sky fall will look good relative to all others at this time of year because eit is so much earlier just as Avalon was in the 1980s

I have skyfall grafton conversion and trinity all no till and true min till 2 inch max depth of cultivations

not a lot in it but the antlantis treated is well behind what ever the variety

for no till early drilling is essential but we may not need to use only varietys that are suited to early drilling

JP Diego after Spring Beans looks like being a (DD) winner here...late drilled (last week in October) after two applications of Glyphosate.. Very little black-grass or brome and crops look really healthy. Our earlier sown crops of JP Diego (Oct 3rd) are showing signs of stress...That said I am not going to going to go down the late drilling route its just far too risky in this part of the world. We are going to devise cropping systems which allow us to plant wheat during the last week in September or the first week in October ...or go for a Spring wheat option ( which over the last three years has been more profitable than the winter alternative).

Jim Bullock said:

JP Diego after Spring Beans looks like being a (DD) winner here...late drilled (last week in October) after two applications of Glyphosate.. Very little black-grass or brome and crops look really healthy. Our earlier sown crops of JP Diego (Oct 3rd) are showing signs of stress...That said I am not going to going to go down the late drilling route its just far too risky in this part of the world. We are going to devise cropping systems which allow us to plant wheat during the last week in September or the first week in October ...or go for a Spring wheat option ( which over the last three years has been more profitable than the winter alternative).

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What yields do you get from your spring wheats?

Very interesting question this. We talked about doing some trials under the umbrella of BASE UK on the question of best varieties for No-till in the UK. But every soil type will have its favorite wheat, as does every area and altitude etc etc, so it's hard to make one trial plot that meaningful.

However, on the basis of Simon's post last year (quoted above), we stuck a couple of fields of Conqueror in and have been thrilled with its get-up-and-go, it looks way ahead of the Solstice next door. Having said that, we haven't grown any Gp 4s for a while, so maybe it isn't fair to compare it to Solstice. Having said all that, all the wheats look well at the minute: Invicta, Evolution, Crusoe all much of a muchness...