KWS SERAFINO
Fire up your rye yields and grain quality!
- Excellent stem stiffness and brown rust resistance
- Multi-purpose hybrid (AD or grain; feed, flour and distilling)
- No.1 harvest index (grains/ear) to drive grain yield
Characteristics
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KWS Serafino offers a leading harvest index (grains/ear), with excellent hagberg (HFN) and sample quality. KWS Serafino is an excellent option for pig finishing or sow rations. With high grain and straw yields plus low growing costs. Food industry uses include flour, breakfast cereals and distilling or malt.
Characteristics in numbers
| Variety Type | Hybrid 100% F1 |
| Use/End Market | AD, Grain (feed/flour),Distilling |
| Seed Rate |
Sept 200–220/m² Oct 250 + m² |
| Drilling Depth | 2–3 cm |
| Unit/Pack Size | 12 Mio. Seed Unit |
| Development to reach GS31 | Medium |
| Development to reach GS51 | Medium |
| Wholecrop silage maturity | 30–40% DM |
| Grain harvest (moisture %) | 11-13 |
| Grain yield | 101 |
| Drought tolerance | Very High |
| Harvest index (grains/ear) | Very high |
| Lodging* | [2] |
| Straw strength (cm) | 131 |
| Brown Rust | 7 |
| Hagberg | 269 |
| Protein (%) | 9.1 |
| Specific weight (kg/hl) | 77.3 |
Data sources: AHDB Recommended List Winter Rye 2023/24
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Dominic Spurrier
Seed Development Manager and Hybrid Rye Product Manager
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07776 998544
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