Paragon

Parentage: Axona x Tonic

Key Benefits

Spring wheat market leader – the only NABIM Group 1 spring wheat
Good yields plus top quality and excellent agronomics gives high economic output

Agronomy
Paragon has good standing power, with ripening one day later than Chablis.

Resistance to shedding is good, enabling grain quality to be maintained even under difficult harvest conditions.

Excellent overall disease resistance keeps production costs down.

	Paragon	Ashby	Tybalt
Mildew	(7)	(7)	(9)
Yellow Rust	9	9	8
Brown Rust	9	9	9
Septoria tritici	7	5	7
Septoria nodorum	(8)	(7)	-
Resistance to lodging + PGR	7	6	(6)
Ripening (days +/- Chablis)	+1	+1	+1

( ) denotes limited data

Quality
Paragon is the only NABIM Group 1 spring wheat on the HGCA Recommended list.

Performance in bread making tests has been excellent, making it a high potential spring wheat.

It is capable of producing grain with high protein content and high HFN, giving the potential to earn high market premiums.

	Paragon	Ashby	Tybalt	Paragon	Ashby	Tybalt
NABIM Group	1	2	2	1	2	2
Treated Yield	93	106	110	95	102	103
Protein content (%)	13.8	13.4	12.8	13.2	13.5	13.1
Hagberg Falling Number	290	288	289	286	239	260
Specific weight (kg/hl)	75.9	77.5	75.3	77.7	78.3	75.7

The combination of high yield, excellent bread making quality and all-round disease resistance make Paragon the perfect choice for maximizing spring crop Gross Margin on farm.

Data a partial abstraction from the RAGT website and the HGCA Recommended List Winter Wheat 2007/8.
The full HGCA Recommended List Winter Wheat 2006 can be consulted at www.hgca.com and www.ragt.co.uk