Elite variety of prickly Canadian winter wheat has many advantages compared to more traditional ones in Ukraine.
Suitable for ecologically clean technologies (organic farming).
Flour from grains of this soft variety is used for baking bread, making confectionery and
pasta products. It is used in various recipes for making vodka and beer.
Variety: Erythrospermum
Cultivation zones: suitable for all wheat cultivation zones in Ukraine.
Morphological signs:
Height 111-124 cm.
Vegetation period 275-280 days.
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The length of the ear is 13-15 cm.
The shape of the grain is oval, the color is red.
Gluten content 35-39%.
Crude protein 13.3 - 14.2%/
The real yield in the conditions of Ukraine averaged about 80-100 centners per hectare with winter sowing. According to the originator, the yield potential of the Canadian Milton variety is more than 120 cents/ha.
It is characterized by high frost resistance, tolerates frosts up to -30ºС in a dry winter, with strong wind and the absence of snow cover.
Canadian winter wheat is resistant to abiotic stresses — it tolerates significant temperature changes in the spring.
Fully developed plants withstand frosts up to -35ºС.
The variety is drought-resistant, tolerates summer temperatures up to +40ºС.
Wheat is resistant to soil salinity.
Has a stable tolerance to all known fungal diseases of wheat and viruses affecting common varieties. Of the diseases, such as powdery mildew, root rot, wheat bacteriosis, snow mold, bordered and reticulate spot, dwarf rust, dusty or false powdery mildew, black and stone mildew, ergot, stem melanosis, septoriosis, fusarium should be mentioned separately.
The high productivity of Canadian winter wheat is achieved due to the large ear and bushiness coefficient.
The variety is resistant to lodging and shedding, germination of grains in the ear.
Grain is characterized by a high gluten content (up to 39%).