Wheat variety choices next year?
- Thread starter dirty harry
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Poacher
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Keep an eye out for LG Skyscraper a new soft, feed wheat...Though its a couple of years away from potentially being added to the AHDB List it has after 2 years of excellent Official Trials results been fast tracked as far as seed production goes with a limited amount of C2 available this autumn. Looks promising.....
Yes, a Santiago cross. I liked Santiago a lot.
Poacher
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Hi Static, though its from another stable and a soft endosperm compared to a hard, I would agree it looks like an improved Santiago type. I like what I see, looks to have good mildew, yellow rust, brown rust and septoria resistance. Its standing looks ok but would no doubt benefit from a PGR but then thats standard practise. Spec Weights around the 78.0 kg/hl level and reasonably early maturity. I would anticipate this is one of those varieties that will catch the interest of those who like to try something new. Be interesting to see where the C2 price levels are for it when they come out.
(Cassius x NAWW 29) x KWS Santiago is what it says on the LG technical summary. The treated PGR score is rated on the LG website as worse than the treated, although they do have it down as both 7% and 9% (website: agronomic data vs website technical summary pdf) but the 7% is what the candidate lists have it down as. It is certainly the high-point of the candidate list for me as it is not late to mature.
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- Darlington
I liked Oakley and like growing OSR.
I like Cassius a lot, one of the best suited wheats for my land and system, My current favourite is Grafton for similar traits.
This year we have Skyfall (after potatoes, and bring the start of cutting wheat forward a bit due to lots of spring crops) Revelation (second wheat and after some earlier lifted beet, and been consistently good) Evolution (after beans and later lifted beet, again a good track record here) and Costello (after oats and some second wheat - replaced Relay)
Next year there will definitely be some Revelation and Costello, cos the seed is still in the shed that didn't get sown this wet back end.
Next year there will definitely be some Revelation and Costello, cos the seed is still in the shed that didn't get sown this wet back end.
For the reason I seem to have 8t of barley left at the back of the shed, I shall be growing 35ha of Glacier!
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- Darlington
I am impressed by the way Costello has got away this year, slugs didn't seem that keen on it and it has fairly flown away.
FarmerBruce
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Slugs absolutely adored it here! Looks very well otherwise!
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- Darlington
Must have been all the muck, in various forms, and gypsum that put them off then,
Don't agree.
Bennington's our latest punt, here.
Chosen mainly for its uninspiring name but best of the lot, so far.
Back in the day, we always got on better with Riband, Consort then Alchemy better than Brigadier, Claire and Oakley. Alchemy was very good as a soft wheat, Jockey dressed Napier a consistent 4t/ac second wheat for some years - variety and dressing now gone unfortunately.
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- Darlington
It was mostly after OSR
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- Darlington
Odd Claire and Oakley did well for us.
I don't suppose the 30 mile or so further north that you are to us would make that much difference @Renaultman - what soil types are you on? Part of the weakness with Claire & Oakley for us was poor straw - quantity and quality, more of a struggle to get decent grain quality too. Diego was quite similar to Oakley, though a bit cleaner, it was always slow to cover the ground compared to the likes of Alchemy, so weed suppression wasn't as good, and again, poor straw.
Mostly (in those days) continuous wheat on heavy land and first wheat on light land after spuds.