Champion winter wheat

[Watsonius]

I'm thinking about growing Champion winter wheat next autumn but its standing power rating isn't as good as Graham and Gleam I grow now. Did anyone who grew it last year experience excessive lodging or is it ok with a decent PGR program?

 

[Wombat]

no difference in lodging to the baristow i also grew. Bushel weight was crap though as no sun from mid June

 

[California]

Unfortunately ours looked great for most of the season but went quite badly flat (though round here it was an exceptionally bad year for lodging) so we haven't grown any this time around. It still yielded reasonably (bushel weight low as expected) so could still suit some situations though.

 

[EddieB]

We grew it, it stood well, but specific weight wasn’t very good.

 

[T Hectares]

I grew it, it stood well from a PGR program that had a 0.5 ltr/ha of Terpal added over the other varieties
Spec weight was on the lower side but within spec
Yielded very well
I have 40% of the wheat area into it this year

 

[APJ]

Ours all lent over but on extremely fertile ground, did around 11t/ha tho, so very happy, planted some again, and still some to go in after turnips in early February hopefully.

 

[Zippy768]

Ours stood acceptable given the year and weather it had to endure.
Far out yielded the Graham we had.
One bit of ground - probably our most fertile - did 4.5t/acre of champion.
All into Champion this year

 

[snarling bee]

Happy with what we grew. Didn't go over weighbridge so can't comment accurately on yield, but stayed standing, unlike Dawsum which looked like it had been flat rolled.


Edit
Think it did about 9.0 t/ha as 2nd,3rd and 4th wheat which was pleasing, we are normally fairly accurate with counting trailers as most goes over a 'bridge so we know what is in an average load.

 

[Midnight plough boy]

It Lodged a bit, where as the Dawsum and Insitor in the same field didn’t, however PGR program last year was lighter than usual due to the dry start and stressed crops. 0.1 Moddus at T0 followed by 0.1 + 1.0 Cqt at T1

I’ll plan on going stronger than other varieties this year.

 

[Yellowfarmer]

The Dawsum was flat as a pancake here
Champion yielded 11t/ha so I was pleased with that

 

[thorpe]

did well for us can't say what it yielded but comfortabley over 4t/ac 3 load into local mill today bushel, 68, 80.2, 77.3 explain that one 2 more in morning see what they make them.

 

[Wombat]

did well for us can't say what it yielded but comfortabley over 4t/ac 3 load into local mill today bushel, 68, 80.2, 77.3 explain that one 2 more in morning see what they make them.

our champion was closer to 68 than 77

 

[Yellowfarmer]

I hear spec weights across most varieties were lower than anticipated last year
let’s hope for some more sunshine this year

 

[David.]

I'm still not sure I'd be planting a variety that the breeder admits has a sp.weight problem. It won't be here long.

 

[Benji Smith]

My understanding is that yield is considerably more financially valuable than spec weight claims. So a high yielding variety with a spec weight claim with always be more rewarding than a lowering yielding variety with no claim

 

[benny6910]

I'm still not sure I'd be planting a variety that the breeder admits has a sp.weight problem. It won't be here long.

I’ve kept away from it for this reason, trying Dawson this year instead. I like extase that I’ve grown for the last few years and last year was my first with crainium which I’ve not had a claim on yet so far and it yielded reasonably for the year so I thought I’d give it another chance.

 

[Benji Smith]

Surely you would always be better to grow Champion over Extase if you are growing for feed because the yield is so much higher and the spec weight claims are relatively small in comparisons to loss of yields.
Also the Dawsum Septoria costs would be much higher and Septoria probably the most expensive disease to control now

 

[David.]

Dawsum won't be here long either.
Not grown Extase, but moisture tested some for someone last year, and it was the nicest sample of wheat I have seen for years.

 

[benny6910]

Surely you would always be better to grow Champion over Extase if you are growing for feed because the yield is so much higher and the spec weight claims are relatively small in comparisons to loss of yields.
Also the Dawsum Septoria costs would be much higher and Septoria probably the most expensive disease to control now

I normally get extase away on a premium to feed and yield isn’t much less so far.

 

[DanniAgro]

The thing I noticed about Champion last year is that it throws up a lot of long ears, some 9” long or even more. It started to go down as I didn’t put on a late growth reg so it would probably be worth putting one on. Other than that it’s lower specific weight is more than compensated for by higher yield.