LG Skyscraper

✚ Consistent high yields and good physical grain quality
✚ Soft feed wheat and rated ‘medium’ for distilling

Variety Positioning

• Remains a major soft wheat across the UK with consistent yields in Agrii trials (98% treated, 88% untreated) and it continues to perform well on the UK Recommended List.

• Good specific weight (77.1 kg/hl) and rated ‘medium’ for distilling but unsuitable for uks export.

• Suitable for all regions of the UK including areas of high sterility risk.

• Consistent across soil types including lighter soils and very high yielding as a second wheat, even though it performs better as a first wheat.

• Proven to be one of the most consistent varieties over the past few years, probably due to its taller straw. Best drilled from the start of October through to the end of January.

• A high tillering variety, fast to grow away in the spring with average competitiveness against grassweeds.

• Fairly tall straw of very average strength both treated and untreated (6) (5), so it needs a robust PGR programme. Reasonably early to mature (0) (0).

• Its disease profile is very average, with mildew (7), yellow rust (6.7) (7.0), brown rust (5.4) (3.9) and poor Septoria tritici (4.9) (4.0).

• Moderately resistant to fusarium ear blight (6.4) and resistant to orange wheat blossom midge.

NOTE:
Numbers in bold – Agrii Advisory List data.
Numbers in standard text – AHDB Recommended List