WHEAT

Wheat is a high yielding cereal crop used in animal feeds. It can be used for combining, crimping and whole crop silage.

Establishment

Seed beds should be fine, moist, and well drained with a target soil pH of 6.5. Establishment will range from 55-70% in poor seed beds up to 80-95% in good conditions.

Nutrition

Apply phosphorus and potassium in the seed bed as per soil analysis. Spring wheat has a nitrogen requirement of 180kg/ ha (145 units/acre) and winter wheat will require 250kg/ha (200 units/acre). Trace elements should be applied as required using tissue and soil analysis as guides.

Disease control

The major diseases to watch out for in wheat are mildew, yellow rust, septoria tritici and fusarium.

Yields

Target yields for spring wheat should be 6-7.4t/ha (2.4-3t/acre) and 8.6-11.1t/ha (3.5-4.5t/acre) for winter wheat.

Cereals

Spring Wheat

KWS Cochise

• High yielding variety with good grain quality.

• Slightly later maturing, medium -tall variety.

• Moderate disease resistance.

KWS Fixum

• Very high yielding variety with good grain quality

• Later maturing, medium tall variety

• Medium-high resistance to yellow rust and medium resistance to mildew