Crusoe

✚ Remains a popular variety with the milling industry
✚ Excellent milling quality and ability to accumulate protein

Variety Positioning

• Crusoe has good market appeal due to its excellent grain quality,  protein of 13.1% and baking performance. 

• It also has stronger yellow rust resistance than either Skyfall or KWS Zyatt. 

• Crusoe is best drilled from the third week of September through to the end of October, but no later.

• Average competitiveness against grassweeds. Short (83 cm) and relatively stiff straw (8) (7.0) with medium-early maturity +1 (0).

• A good set of disease scores with mildew (6) (6), yellow rust (7) (5) and Septoria tritici (7) (6) but be careful with brown rust (3) (2), which is below minimum standards.

• Susceptible to stem based diseases and not resistant
  to orange wheat blossom midge.

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