Waggon

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The highest yielding spring feed barley available

Parentage: NFC 499-69 x Vortex

Status: HGCA Recommended List 2007 and SAC Recommended List 2007

Yield Potential

Waggon is the highest yielding spring feed barley with outstanding straw yields on the 2007 HGCA Recommended List.

Yield table

Waggon consistently produces top yields across all regions of the UK , whatever the soil type.

Yield table

Disease Resistance

Waggon has very high untreated yields with good all round disease resistance. However a managed fungicide programme is recommended.

Disease resistance

Fungicide Use

Getting early to mid season agronomy right is crucial to establishing a healthy crop.

T0 -

The T0 spray prevents diseases gaining a foothold in long growing seasons or where disease
pressure is high. The use of Unix helps keep Rhynchosporium at bay.

T1-

Timing is key for protecting the canopy during the plants' main burst of growth.
Kayak + Triazole provides broad spectrum disease control.

T2-

Managing late season plant health is also vitally important to ensure a healthy harvest.
This is the key time to protect grain fill with awns and green leaf areas being the key targets.
Strobilurins protect against foliar diseases and Chlorothalonil has demonstrated control of biotic
and abiotic spotting.

CORE PROGRAMME

T0 -	Unix (should be only used in extremely high pressure years)
T1-	Kayak + Triazole
T2-	Amistar Opti + Triazole

Agronomic Information

Waggon is early maturing with excellent resistance to both lodging and brackling.

Agronomic information

Waggon's extra bio mass and number of complete tillers has been shown to produce extra straw, even with a slightly shorter straw length. Over four sites in a two year mean, Waggon has produced consistently higher straw yields, which, coupled with extremely high grain yield makes for the complete feed barley.

Growth Habit

Early Spring - Semi prostrate

Tillering ability - Medium

Maturity - Early

Drilling Dates

Suitability for early drilling - January onwards

Optimum drilling date - England - January -February, Scotland - Feburary – March

Suitability for late drilling (April) - Acceptable

Recommended Sowing Rates

Seed rates are dependent on soil conditions at the time of drilling, the more difficult the environment, the higher the seed rate must be to compensate for potential plant loss. The table below shows the suggested number of seeds per square metre that should be planted under good conditions.

Sowing rates

The chart above should always be used in conjunction with the thousand-grain weight of the seed to
calculate the sowing rate.

Nitrogen Application
When growing high yielding feed spring barley crops, it is important to have high nutrient supply. As a base apply 10–15% more than an Optic crop grown for malting. Seed bed applications are not so important for feed varieties and therefore Nitrogen should be a split dose of 50% at GS 11/12 and 50% at GS 21/22.

PGR’s
Normally not required, however NFC advises their use on lush crops or very fertile sites. In these cases use low rate Moddus (0.1 – 0.2 l/ha) at GS 29-30 to stabilise tillers and pr omote root development.

Quality
Waggon is a high yielding feed barley with excellent grain size.

Grain Quality

Specific Wt - 68.5 kg/hl
Sieving % through - 2.25mm - 3.1%
Sieving % through - 2.5mm - 7.6%

Harvesting
Normal harvest priority - Waggon has excellent resistance to ear loss, but it is always advisable to harvest the crop in the best condition as soon as moisture is correct.

All information is a partial extraction from the New farm crops website and also the HGCA Recommended List 2007/8. See http://www.newfarmcrops.co.uk/ and also www.hgca.com for the full dataset