Crusoe

✚ Remains a popular variety with the milling industry
✚ Excellent milling quality and ability to accumulate protein

Variety Positioning

• Crusoe has made a comeback given the yellow rust concerns of Skyfall and KWS Zyatt.

• It retains strong support from the millers for its excellent baking quality and from growers for its ability to lay down protein (13.4%).

• Best drilled from the third week of September through to the end of October, but no later.

• Average competitiveness against grassweeds.

• Short and relatively stiff straw (7.4) (7.0) with medium maturity +1 (0).

• A good set of disease scores with mildew (7), yellow rust (8.4) (7.6) and Septoria tritici (6.3) (6.2) but be careful with brown rust (2.7) (2.3).

• Not resistant to orange wheat blossom midge.

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