Blackstone

✚ A new high yielding soft feed and distilling-type
✚ Midge resistant with reasonable foliar disease resistance

Variety Positioning

• A high yielding soft wheat in Agrii trials last year (101% treated, 88% untreated).

• Good physical grain quality in official trials (78.2 kg/hl) and better than that of LG Skyscraper and RGT Bairstow.
  Rated ‘Medium’ for distilling. 

• Best grown in the north including in areas of high sterility risk and sown in the main drilling window until further information is available.

• It can be grown on both heavy and lighter soils with particularly
  good performance on the latter. It is a reasonable second wheat choice while its grassweed competitiveness is still under evaluation at Stow Longa.

• Relatively tall (92 cm), reasonably stiff straw treated (7) (7) and untreated (7) (6) but its maturity is slightly later (+2) (+1).

• It has reasonable disease ratings for mildew (7), yellow rust (9) (6), brown rust (5) (4) and Septoria tritici (6) (6). It appears to have reasonable resistance to fusarium ear blight (7.5).

• Resistant to orange wheat blossom midge.

NOTE:
Numbers in bold – Agrii Advisory List data.
Numbers in standard text – AHDB Recommended List