Parentage: (Riband ‘sib' x Fresco) x Riband

Key Benefits

• Soft milling and very good biscuit quality – ideal for markets at home and abroad
• Consistent yield and reliable quality
• Proven performance over many years and in difficult harvests
• Flexible rotational position

• Early/late drilling
• 1 st wheat after setaside
• The best choice for a 2 nd biscuit wheat

Agronomy
With its stiff straw, Consort is easy to grow and can exploit high yielding situations for maximum yield. Consort tolerates take-all infections well, making it the ideal choice for early drilling after setaside, or as a 2 nd biscuit wheat where take-all can be a problem. The graph below demonstrates biscuit wheat performance. Varieties on or above the line perform consistently as a 2nd wheat. Those below the line are less consistent as a 2nd wheat.

Consort is slow developing and can be drilled from early September to the end of January. It has a long grain-fill period and slightly later maturity, which maximises yield potential.

Disease resistance is generally good but crops should be monitored for Septoria tritici and brown rust. Consort shows continued resistance to both Brigadier and Equinox strains of yellow rust and has good resistance to Fusarium ear blight.


Quality
Consort is a soft endosperm variety which is widely grown for biscuits, cakes and breakfast cereal. Consort is also popular for export markets
Consort's good sprouting and shedding resistance ensure more reliable quality in tough harvests.

Consort has high spirit yield making it an ideal choice for distilling in Scotland.

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