Arlington

✚ A new Group 1 wheat with a wide drilling window
✚ Skyfall's successor with improved disease resistance

Variety Positioning

• Arlington is a high-quality, hard Group 1 milling wheat variety noted for its strong performance in trials and robust agronomic package.

• It is positioned as a potential replacement for Skyfall due to similar but improved disease resistance, especially against yellow rust.  

• It offers a high specific weight (around 79.3 kg/hl) and a high, stable Hagberg Falling Number (309s), making it suitable for bread-making and limited ukp export potential.

• Official milling trials reported a protein content of 12.5%, though DSV's own trials show higher proteins of up to 13.5%.

• In official trials, it shows high yield potential (99% treated, 94% of controls), reflecting its good disease package.

• While not in Agrii trials last year, it yielded 103% of controls in 2024.

• It performs as both a first and second wheat, with the best performance seen in the East and West regions.  

• Trials suggests that it is more suited to heavier land.

• The variety has a low vernalisation requirement, providing a wide drilling window, which is particularly useful for late autumn/winter sowings.

• It features short, stiff straw, contributing to good lodging resistance and no reported lodging issues in trials.

• It is also an early maturing variety (-1), which helps facilitate a quick harvest.

• Arlington possesses a strong overall disease resistance profile.  It carries the valuable Pch1 eyespot genetics (5.9) and resistance to yellow rust is good (7 RL; 8 Agrii), although there potential future race breakdowns affecting other YR15 susceptible varieties too.

• It has good resistance to mildew (6), brown rust (6 RL, 7 Agrii), and Septoria tritici (7 RL; 7 Agrii). The variety also has resistance to Orange Wheat Blossom Midge.

• Overall, DSV’s Arlington is an easy-to-manage variety that provides growers with a blend of good end-market quality potential and reliable in-field performance. 

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