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Cassius winter wheat is a high yielding, soft milling feed variety suitable for the north of the UK.

CASSIUS is a soft endospermed winter wheat with a very high yield potential. It has excellent resistance to yellow and brown rusts as well as good standing ability. Cassius is likely to be suitable for the distilling, animal feed and export markets.

PEDIGREE
Claire x (NSL WW24 x Wizard)

VERY HIGH YIELD POTENTIAL (% treated control)
  Treated Yield Untreated Yield
CASSIUS 102 86
JB Diego 104 88
Viscount 103 88

Cassius has shown an excellent yield potential in fungicide treated and untreated trials.

REGIONAL YIELDS (% treated control)
  North East
CASSIUS 102 103
JB Diego 100 104
Viscount 104 104

 

SECOND WHEAT PERFORMANCE (% treated mean)
   
CASSIUS 103
JB Diego 105
Viscount 103

Cassius has performed particularly well in the HGCA North and East regions and as a second cereal.

STRAW CHARACTERS
  CASSIUS JB Diego Viscount
Height without PGR (cm) 88 91 84
Resistance to Lodging with PGR 8 8 7
Ripening (days +/- Solstice, + = Late) +1 0 +1

Cassius has medium length straw and has shown very little lodging in trials.

GRAIN QUALITY
  CASSIUS JB Diego Viscount
nabim Group 4 4 4
Endosperm Texture Soft Hard Soft
Protein Content (%) 11.1 11.0 10.8
Hagberg Falling Number 167 288 173
Specific Weight (kg/hl) 74.9 77.6 75.9

Cassius is a soft textured wheat with a good specific weight and Hagberg Falling Number.

DISEASE RESISTANCE
  CASSIUS JB Diego Viscount
Mildew 7 6 7
Yellow Rust 9 6 5
Brown Rust 8 4 9
Septoria nodorum 8 7 9
Septoria tritici 5 6 5
Eyespot 7 5 6
Fusarium ear blight 6 6 6

Cassius has a very good disease resistance profile with excellent resistance to both yellow and brown rust.

 

 

MARKET OPTIONS

CASSIUS is ideally suited for the animal feed, distilling and export markets. It has shown good dough extensibility and water absorption for biscuit flour and given positive results from distilling tests.

SOWING DATE

Cassius has slow primordial development in the spring (similar to Alchemy) which, combined with its good standing ability and prostrate growth habit, make it suitable for early sowing in the autumn,

The latest safe sowing date for Cassius is the end of January.

 

Data from the HGCA Recommended Lists database, full data at www.hgca.com

On the 1-9 scales, high figures indicate that a variety shows the character to a high degree.

Bred by Nickerson.

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