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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.
| | Spring sown | | | Autumn sown |
| 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 maximising spring crop Gross Margin on farm
Data a partial abstraction from HGCA Recommended List Spring Wheat 2006.
The full database can be consulted at www.hgca.com
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