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
About
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 (106%), mainstream (103%) or late sown slots (103%). Combine these benefits with the excellent disease package, the variety delivers an untreated yield (91%) second only to KWS Extase 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!
| UK | 103 |
| East | 103 |
| West | 104 |
| North | 105 |
| Untreated | 91 |
| First cereal | 104 |
| Second cereal | 104 |
| Early sown | 106 |
| 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) | 7 |
| Height (cm) | 85 |
| 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 (%) | 10.8 |
| Protein content (%) - Milling spec | 11.7 |
| Hagberg Falling Number | 299 |
| 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.
Could the UK’s most popular Group 4 wheat also be the most sustainable?
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