KWS FIREFLY
Illuminate your wheat with a touch of magic!
- Super wide sowing window with great yield potential through to the end of February
- Twin 8s for standing making it one fo the stiffest varieties on the market today
- Added market opportunities for biscuit and soft wheat export
Characteristics
About
KWS Firefly is suited to all regions but performs best in the main wheat production areas of England. It is a consistent performer across light and heavy soils, as well as first and second cereal slots. It’s a high tillering, very stiff type with early maturity that will deliver yield right the way through to the end of February, drilled as either a first or second wheat and is OWBM resistant. A true Group 3 biscuit wheat, KWS Firefly has a good set of grain characters, including one of the best HFNs in the soft wheat category and the correct balance of resistance and extensibility needed by UK and export biscuit makers.
| UK | 100 |
| East | 100 |
| West | 99 |
| North | 99 |
| Untreated | 80 |
| First cereal | 100 |
| Second cereal | 100 |
| Early sown | 100 |
| Late sown | 101 |
| Light soil | 100 |
| Heavy soil | 100 |
| Mildew | 5 |
| Yellow Rust | 6 |
| Brown Rust | 5 |
| Septoria Tritici | 5.1 |
| Eyespot | [4] |
| Fusarium | 5 |
| OWBM | R |
| Resistance to lodging (+PGR) | 8 |
| Resistance to lodging (-PGR) | 8 |
| Height (cm) | 83 |
| Ripening (days +/- Control, -ve = earlier) | 0 |
| Latest safe sowing date | End Feb |
| Tillering capacity (low/mod/high) | high |
| Growth habit overwinter | intermediate |
| Development (Time to GS32) | medium |
| ukp bread wheat for export | no |
| uks soft wheat for export | no |
| Protein content (%) | 11.5 |
| Protein content (%) - Milling spec | 12.4 |
| Hagberg Falling Number | 248 |
| Specific weight (kg/hl) | 76.1 |
| Scotland | 15th September |
| North Lincolnshire & Yorkshire | 20th September |
| East Anglia & Midlands | 25th September |
| West & Midlands | 25th September |
| South | 30th September |
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