Best milling wheat

[casemx 270]

What's best the current winter milling wheat variety for disease resistance and yield ? Currently growing lots of Skyfall but resistance to rusts are breaking down . Thanks

 

[Bigjon44]

Yeah we grow all skyfall but yellow rust seems to get worse every year.it does combine nice tho.
All varieties have some problems so it's just finding best way of managing them

 

[dirty harry]

We find zyatt very consistent? Not without its problems recently but still v pleased here, cheers dh

 

[Sonoftheheir]

Don’t think there is one!

Crusoe seems to do well here.

 

[Hampton]

Don’t think there is one!

Crusoe seems to do well here.

Screenings

 

[Sonoftheheir]

Screenings

Yes, forgot about that!

 

[JCfarmer]

Crusoe is good for yield and protein generally except for the bloody chaff!
This year was the worse I have known it for letting go of the chaff, you can only thrash it so hard! The dull August didn't help last year with this, most coming in at around 16% moisture also.
Grew Skyfall once and was not impressed, Crusoe beat it hands down here.
Zyatt any good for yield and protein?

 

[Sonoftheheir]

Zyatt does not perform as well as Crusoe here, but we only grow those two. Zyatt makes 13% but always 0.2 or 0.3 below Crusoe.

Did not like the look of skyfall the couple of years we grew it.

Must have been lucky here with the Crusoe as it did have a lot of chaff, but we didn’t get hit with screenings deductions.

 

[Barleymow]

Crusoe here again this year only had moisture claim for 16.9 %

 

[Sonoftheheir]

Crusoe here again this year only had moisture claim for 16.9 %

Had a claim here for 15.3%!

 

[BigBarl]

Zyatt and Skyfall both bad for Yellow rust now. Crusoe Achilles heal has always been brown rust but you’ll be hard pushed to ever find much Yellow rust in it. Big swing back into crusoe this year with lack of quality wheats getting recommended and the other main two breaking down significantly to YR in recent years

 

[DieselRob]

No one mentioned illustrious but for the last 3 years I got on really well with it. It was never as dirty as zyatt and skyfall when they broke down to YR and it didn’t yield bad here either. If I hadn’t moved away from Gp1 altogether I would’ve carried on growing it

 

[Hampton]

Crusoe is good for yield and protein generally except for the bloody chaff!
This year was the worse I have known it for letting go of the chaff, you can only thrash it so hard! The dull August didn't help last year with this, most coming in at around 16% moisture also.
Grew Skyfall once and was not impressed, Crusoe beat it hands down here.
Zyatt any good for yield and protein?

Zyatt good for yield but bad for disease. Bit hit and miss for protein although hagberg generally good

 

[snarling bee]

No one mentioned illustrious but for the last 3 years I got on really well with it. It was never as dirty as zyatt and skyfall when they broke down to YR and it didn’t yield bad here either. If I hadn’t moved away from Gp1 altogether I would’ve carried on growing it

After the last 2 years I can't recommend Illustrious. Might be better on light land.
We major on Skyfall. In times of expensive N then Crusoe would be better. I also grow Lennox as a spring wheat, and Nelson this year to try.

 

[idle git]

I seem to remember about a thread on here a 3 or so years ago about having to leave crusoe till the end of wheat harvest to try and get it to thrash out. I have problems retaining hagbergs cutting milling wheats ASAP
I grow Ziatt and skyfalll and in the last couple of years Ziatt has been the higher yielder

 

[Lincsman]

Crusoe is reliable and good quality, but you need to know how to set a combine up.

 

[Laminated]

We have moved from Skyfall to Crusoe. Prefer Crusoe seems to yield the same as Skyfall on our land but gets a better quality. No problem combining it here. Looks slightly dirtier but never had an admix claim