SY Armadillo

Variety Positioning

✚ A non-Recommended List hybrid with high yields and excellent specific weight.
✚ Relatively stiff straw, very low brackling and good all-round disease resistance.

High yields (108% treated, 82% treated) over the past two years in Agrii trials with an excellent specific weight (68.4 kg/hl) and a good variety to sit alongside Belfry.

• Suitable for all regions of the UK, all soil types and best drilled in the main drilling window through to the middle of October.
• SY Armadillo has excelled on light land and, like all hybrid barley varieties, it is very competitive against grassweeds.
• Tall (107 cm treated, 115 cm untreated) and relatively stiff (7) so this will be attractive to growers who have struggled to keep their hybrids standing.
• Armadillo has also shown outstanding brackling resistance and far better than from any other hybrids.
• A robust PGR programme is still recommended. Medium maturity, similar to Belfry.
• A strong combination of wet weather disease resistance, it has good ratings for mildew (5), Rhynchosporium (7), net blotch (6) but brown rust (4) needs watching.
• Resistant to barley yellow mosaic virus.

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