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Carat is a high yielding, stiff-strawed 2-row feed quality, winter barley with very short straw and early maturity.

Good all round disease resistance is combined with resistance to Barley Yellow Mosaic Virus.

Pedigree - Volley x Cabrio.

YIELD
  Treated Trials Untreated Trials
CARAT 98 78
Haka 98 80
Cannock 101 76

Source: 2007/8 HGCA Recommended List

REGIONAL TREATED TRIALS
  North East West
CARAT 96 98 98
Haka 98 99 96
Cannock 102 100 99

Source: 2007/8 HGCA Recommended List

AGRONOMIC CHARACTERS
  CARAT Haka Cannock
Resistance to lodging 8 8 6
Straw height (cms) 89 94 97
Ripening (days +/- Pearl) -3 -2 +2
Winter hardiness 5 7 4

Source: 2007/8 HGCA Recommended List

GRAIN QUALITY
  CARAT Haka Cannock
       
Specific weight (kg/hl) 72.0 71.6 66.7
Sieving % through 2.25mm 1.7 1.6 4.4
Sieving % through 2.5mm 4.3 4.5 13.6

Source: 2007/8 HGCA Recommended List

DISEASE RESISTANCE
  CARAT Haka Cannock
Mildew 6 7 4
Yellow rust 6 7 8
Brown rust 4 7 5
Rhynchosporium 7 5 8
Net blotch 6 7 8
Barley Yellow Mosaic Virus R S S
R = Resistant S = Susceptible

Source: 2007/8 HGCA Recommended List

All information is a partial extraction from the nickerson website and also the HGCA Recommended List 2007/8. See www.nickersonuk.com and also www.hgca.com for the full dataset