KWS DAWSUM
Now that's a special combination!
- Exceptional specific weight (79.9 kg/hl)
- Very high yield potential across all regions of the UK
- Super flexible on-farm with a wide sowing window
Characteristics
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Awesome Dawsum - the excellent barn-filling choice with outstanding grain quality including one of the highest specific weights on the market today. KWS Dawsum is a hard Group 4 wheat that offers growers the ultimate flexibility on-farm, delivering fantastic yields right across the rotation if you are drilling early (105%), mainstream (103%) or late sown slots (103%). Combine these benefits with the excellent disease package, the variety delivers an untreated yield (89%)and includes 6.3 for Septoria and 9 for yellow rust. Add in the exceptionally marketable grain and you have a truly D-awsome variety that will earn itself a place on every farm this season! All
| UK | 103 |
| East | 103 |
| West | 103 |
| North | 106 |
| Untreated | 89 |
| First cereal | 103 |
| Second cereal | 103 |
| Early sown | 105 |
| Late sown | 103 |
| Light soil | 105 |
| Heavy soil | 103 |
| Mildew | 8 |
| Yellow Rust | 9 |
| Brown Rust | 7 |
| Septoria Tritici | 6.3 |
| Eyespot | 5 |
| Fusarium | 7 |
| Resistance to lodging (+PGR) | 7 |
| Resistance to lodging (-PGR) | 8 |
| Height (cm) | 84 |
| Ripening (days +/- Control, -ve = earlier) | +1 |
| Latest safe sowing date | End Jan |
| Tillering capacity (low/mod/high) | high |
| Development (Time to GS32) | medium |
| ukp bread wheat for export | no |
| uks soft wheat for export | no |
| Protein content (%) | 10.7 |
| Hagberg Falling Number | 310 |
| Specific weight (kg/hl) | 79.9 |
| Scotland | 10th September |
| North Lincolnshire & Yorkshire | 15th September |
| East Anglia & Midlands | 20th September |
| West & Midlands | 20th September |
| South | 27th September |
The KWS Dawsum was very clean coming out of winter, even on the light land following spring oats, looking good throughout the season and produced the goods at harvest.
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