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Parentage: 98ST08 x Aardvark
Key Benefits
- One of the highest yielding milling wheats on the 2008/9 HGCA Recommended List
- Suitable for early drilling - offering a wide drilling window
- Top 2nd wheat - allows for a flexible rotation
Yield
Battalion is one of the highest yielding milling wheats with excellent agronomics.
Battalion also performs exceptionally well as a second wheat as well as having a high untreated yield (equivalent to those of the highest yielding feed wheats).
Battalion performs exceptionally well in the early drill slot due to its slow speed of development and good agronomics.
Battalion has similar maturity to Claire and will perform well when sown from early September to late October. The latest safe drilling date is the end of January.
Early Drilling Trials. Source: TAG 2007 Drill date early Sept, 250 seeds/m2
Agronomy
Battalion has excellent straw strength, reflected in its high untreated yield.
Battalion has an improved resistance profile over existing milling wheats – particularly yellow and brown rust and eyespot from the Pch1gene.
 | Battalion | Einstein |
| Mildew | 7 | 6 |
| Yellow Rust | 8 | 6 |
| Brown Rust | 9 | 5 |
| Septoria nodorum | (9) | 6 |
| Septoria tritici | 6 | 5 |
| Eyespot | 6 | 6 |
| Untreated Yield % | 89 | 84 |
Quality
Battalion is a hard milling wheat without 1B/BR. It demonstrates high rates of flour extraction and has good flour colour.
| Battalion | Einstein |
| Protein content | 12.4 | 12.2 |
| Specific weight (kg/hl) | 76.0 | 77.2 |
| ukp | (B) | B |
Data a partial abstraction from HGCA Recommended List Winter Wheat 2009/09.
The full HGCA Recommended List Winter Wheat 2006 can be consulted at www.hgca.com
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