KWS Dawsum

✚ High yields and excellent physical grain quality

✚ Drilling date flexibility and good light land performance 

Variety Positioning

• Continues to be one of Agrii’s big selling varieties due to its consistent high yields (101% treated, 82% untreated) and very bold grain (79.6 kg/hl).

• While it is a mostly grown as 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 Bamford or KWS Extase.

• An acceptable second wheat choice with relatively poor competitiveness against grassweeds.

• It is a high tillering variety of medium height (85 cm) and average straw strength both treated (RL 7; Agrii 6) and untreated (RL 8; Agrii 5) so a robust PGR programme is advisable.

• It shows medium-late maturity (RL +1; Agrii +2).

• While mildew resistance remains good (RL 7; Agrii 7), other disease scores have declined over the past year with yellow rust (RL 5; Agrii 4), brown rust (RL 7; Agrii 5) and Septoria tritici (RL 6; Agrii 5) all slipping.

• Moderately resistant to fusarium ear blight (6.8), average eyespot resistance (5) and moderately susceptible to stem-base diseases.

• Not resistant to orange wheat blossom midge.

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