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High-yielding soft winter wheat variety
A high-yielding soft winter wheat variety with strong resistance to lodging and grain shattering, suited to the Steppe and Forest-Steppe zones and Polissia. The variety has a well-developed root system, which works well in dry growing conditions.
Key advantages
- High yield potential
- Resistance to lodging and grain shattering
- High winter hardiness
- High protein content
What to keep in mind
- Shattering resistance holds if the crop is harvested early.
- The highest tillering coefficient in the range (1.9–3.1) — with early sowing it is easy to overthicken the stand, keep to 3–3.5 million seeds/ha.
Data from the LEGEND 2025 catalogue. These are not drawbacks — they are the conditions under which the variety performs best.
Technical characteristics
| Type | awned |
|---|---|
| Maturity group | medium-early |
| Technology | flexible |
| Spring regrowth | early |
| Quality class | strong wheat |
| Species | soft (common) wheat |
| Soil requirements | all soil types |
| Recommended zone | Polissia, Forest-Steppe, Steppe |
| Spike type | awned, lax |
| Plant height | 75–90 cm |
| Tillering coefficient | 1.9–3.1 |
| Yield potential | 10–11.5 t/ha |
| Shattering resistance | early harvest dates |
Resistance on a 9-point scale
Resistance to diseases and pests
Commercial trial results, 2021
Yield at 14% moisture, t/ha. Source — LEGEND 2025 catalogue.
2023 result — 7.14 t/ha
Seeding rate
Conventional technology, million seeds/ha — depending on the sowing date.
Sowing depth
Optimal depth is 2–3 cm. At this depth the tillering node forms at 1–1.5 cm.
Best previous crops
Legumes (pea, chickpea, lentil, bean), legume grasses, oilseed rape, sunflower, buckwheat, flax, sugar beet, silage maize.
Poor previous crops
Grain maize, wheat, barley.
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