Parentage: Reaper x Rialto

Key Benefits
· Group 1 milling wheat with a 4% yield advantage over Malacca, plus superior milling quality and N utlisation efficiency
· The best combination of reliable protein, specific weight and Hagberg quality
· Stiff strawed
· No disease weaknesses
· Good untreated yield

Mascot offers breadwheat growers a valuable opportunity to boost gross margins through the best available combination of yields and consistent top milling quality specifications.

Yield
Yields are 4% above Malacca with a superior protein and specific weight. Yields are not significantly different from Solstice in the East and are notably consistent across years, UK regions and soil types.

Agronomy
Mascot carries a very sound disease resistance package, with no specific weaknesses and the best eyespot resistance in its class. This is reinforced by its high untreated yields. It has short, stiff straw and the highest possible lodging resistance with PGR. Mascot ripens at the same time as Claire.

Mascot stands out amongst other bread makers for its recorded efficiency in converting nitrogen fertiliser into grain nitrogen as well as reaching its yield potential at a lower N level than any other.

Quality
Mascot is a group 1 milling wheat that more reliably fulfils end-user specification of HFN, Specific Weight & protein than other milling varieties

• Classified as by British Cereal Exports (BCE)
• Good flour extraction
• Produces a white flour and crumb colour that is widely acceptable to millers and shows an improvement over the yellowness of Malacca
• Consistently good baking performance
• Loaf volumes equivalent to Malacca
• Stable over a range of protein contents

( ) denotes limited data

Data obtained from R.A.G.T product information and partial abstraction from HGCA Recommended List Winter Wheat 2007/8.
The full database can be consulted at www.ragt.co.uk and http://www.hgca.com/