New Varieties |
Brief descriptions of the new winter wheat varieties for 2010 are listed below. For further, more detailed information on these varieties please contact us via the enquiry form above or call us on: 01472 371471.
Gravitas is a soft textured winter wheat with an excellent yield potential, 6% above Alchemy with a fungicide treatment. It has moderately tall straw, a very good disease resistance profile combined with resistance to Wheat Orange Blossom Midge. Gravitas has a soft endosperm, with a good specific weight and Hagberg Falling Number making it potentially suitable for the distilling, export and animal feed markets. It is an HGCA Recommended List candidate for 2010.
Stigg is a hard textured feed winter wheat with a very high yield potential (particularly in the absence of fungicide). It has short, stiff straw and excellent foliar disease resistance, especially to Septoria tritici:
Resistance to: | |
Mildew | 8 |
Yellow rust | 9 |
Brown rust | (9) |
Septoria tritici | 8 |
Septoria nodorum | (6) |
Eyespot | 7 |
Stigg is an HGCA Recommended List candidate for 2010.
Data from the HGCA Recommended Lists database, full data at www.hgca.com . On the 1-9 scales, high figures indicate that the variety shows the character to a high degree.
