KWS Dawsum

✚ High yields and excellent physical grain quality.

✚ Drilling date flexibility and all-round disease resistance.

Variety Positioning

• Agrii’s second biggest selling variety after KWS Extase due to its consistently high yields (101% treated, 95% untreated) and very bold grain (79.9 kg/hl). While it is a hard feed wheat it may be accepted into some low-grade flour blends by some millers.

• Suitable for growing across the UK including areas of high sterility risk. It can be grown on heavy and light soils and it has a wide drilling window from mid-September through to the end of January.

• It has a relatively slow speed of development in the spring which is particularly apparent when grown alongside faster developing varieties like KWS Extase.

• An acceptable second wheat choice with average competitiveness against grass weeds.

• KWS Dawsum is a high tillering variety of medium height (85 cm) and average straw strength both treated (7.3) (6) and untreated (7.2) (5) so a robust pgr programme is advisable.

• It shows medium-late maturity (+1) (+3). 

• A good set of disease scores for mildew (8), yellow rust (8.9) (8.1), brown rust (6.8) (5.1) and Septoria tritici (6.3) (6.2). Moderately resistant to fusarium ear blight (6.8), average eyespot resistance (5) and not resistant to orange wheat blossom midge.

NOTE:
Numbers in red – Agrii Advisory List data.
Numbers in black – AHDB Recommended List data