KWS Extase

teslacoils

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This is the untreated plot of Extase from the Frontier trials at Bealsby today. I thought it was pretty decent.
 

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teslacoils

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I've got 3 tons booked.Septoria ratings don't break down like Rusts.Was reading an article where it recommends that Extase should not be planted too early due to fact it tillers well and puts on a lot of mass.

The talk was more of the speed of spring development rather than anything else. So like Soissons it would want drilling later or on the pgr early.
 

teslacoils

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I'm going to give it a year on other people's farms. Even with hgca levels of pgr it was tall, and wasn't exactly pushed for nitrogen. Actually a few crops looked very tall tbh. There were a couple of kws wheats that looked ok but nothing really to make me change from Lili.
 

ajd132

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Suffolk
My only worry is that in Niab trials there is a very variable yield. Biggest difference between lowest and highest yield. Not sure what to make of that?
 
Was at trails evening this week, and both breeders present reconed the Septoria rateing was overdone. Should be a 6 at best. As mentioned seed tight this year, but loads being multiplied up and should be loads about next year when the variety will be more proven.
 

turbo

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lincs
This is the untreated plot of Extase from the Frontier trials at Bealsby today. I thought it was pretty decent.
I saw it there today also,looks a great variety but it certainly looks leggy and we haven’t had a bad lodging year for a while so I think I will sit this variety out for a bit
 
Saw it today at ilminster, untreated was cleaner than most treated varieties, they talked about early vigour, certainly not an early driller, the yield variation will tell if it's up to anything and crops in the ground will prove that
 

Gong Farmer

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S E Glos
Has a lot of variation. In our Hereford trials it's exceptionally clean untreated, in our Warwick trials it looks more like a 5 or 6 in untreated plots.Everyone I speak to has ordered a bit, surprised if there's any left.
 

teslacoils

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I saw it there today also,looks a great variety but it certainly looks leggy and we haven’t had a bad lodging year for a while so I think I will sit this variety out for a bit

Given how little (220kg!) Nitrogen it had had, and how much pgr (litre CCC plus 0.1 moddus, twice) I thought a lot were tall. Taller than mine anyway. Easy looking soil though .
 

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