Winter wheat seed SWALLOW

earlyrust resistantpowdery mildew resistant

Swallow is a soft distilling wheat for the North Region. Swallow is a superb variety for the North, with all of the desired attributes; excellent grain quality, short, stiff straw, early maturity and a solid disease resistance package. Swallow produces exceptional alcohol yields and is an excellent choice for the Scottish distilling market. Superb Distilling Potential and Early Drilling In distilling tests Swallow has produced consistent, superb alcohol yields in every year of testing. It is a preferred variety for the distilling market and should be popular on farm. Swallow tillers well and produces high yields, particularly in the North, where it will find favour with its superb distilling potential. It competes well with established varieties in the Northern market. Swallow shows potential for early drilling, which will appeal to many growers. Grain Quality - Specific weight (kg/hl) - 76.7 Hagberg - 269 Protein content % - 11.1 Swallow has notably the shortest, stiffest straw on the RL, maintains its green leaf throughout the season and is early to ripen, important attributes in particular for the Northern market. Swallow has good all round disease resistance and resistance to OWBM. Septoria tritici resistance remains key and Swallow offers a good level of resistance to this and other diseases. Agronomics - Resistance to lodging -PGR - 8 Resistance to lodging +PGR - 9 Height -PGR (cm) - 79 Ripening (days +/- Skyfall) - +1 Resistance to sprouting - [5]