CASSIUS is a soft endospermed winter wheat with a very high yield potential. It has excellent resistance to yellow and brown rusts as well as good standing ability. Cassius is likely to be suitable for the distilling, animal feed and export markets.
Cassius has shown an excellent yield potential in fungicide treated and untreated trials.
Cassius has performed particularly well in the HGCA North East regions and as a second cereal.
Cassius has medium length straw and has shown very little lodging in trials. |
Cassius is a soft textured wheat with a good specific weight and Hagberg Falling Number.
Cassius has a very good disease resistance profile with excellent resistance to both yellow and brown rust, and is similar to Alchemy for Septoria tritici. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
MARKET OPTIONS
CASSIUS is ideally suited for the animal feed, distilling and export markets. In preliminary testing it has shown good dough extensibility and water absorption for biscuit flour and given positive results from distilling tests.
SOWING DATE
Cassius has slow primordial development in the spring (similar to Alchemy) which, combined with its good standing ability and prostrate growth habit, make it suitable for early sowing in the autumn, Cassius is currently being evaluated in early September sown trials.
The latest safe sowing date for Cassius is the end of January.
Data from the HGCA Recommended Lists database, full data at www.hgca.com
On the 1-9 scales, high figures indicate that a variety shows the character to a high degree.
