Palmedor

Palmedor is a hybrid variety bred by LS Plant Breeding

As the highest high yielding HEAR in long term trials, Palmedor offers a proven consistency of performance whatever the season.

A combination of very high yields, oil content and erucic acid content, gives the variety the potential to produce some of the highest gross margins possible from any rape crop.

Consistently High Yields

Palmedor outyields the current market favourite, Marcant, by 3%.  Indeed, seed yields in trials have broken the 4t/ha barrier. 

Add to this exceptional oil and very high erucic acid contents, and Palmedor produces a very strong erucic acid yield, significantly improving industrial output.

2007-09 3 Year mean	Oil content (%)	Erucic acid (% content)
Palmedor	50.0	51.9
Marcant	49.5	52.9
Hearty	47.6	52.4
Maplus	49.3	52.0
Zeruca	49.0	50.6
Helico	48.6*	54.4*

Data source: KWS UK trials - 3 year mean 2007/2009

* data for Helico is two year mean (08/09)

Agronomics

As a hybrid, Palmedor is quick to establish and grow away in the spring to make the most of field conditions.

Palmedor is a medium height variety and has excellent stem stiffness characteristics and lodging resistance.

Palmedor has moderate ratings for both light leaf spot and stem canker and so will suit the mainstream oilseed rape growing areas where both diseases are an issue.

	Palmedor	Castille
Resistance to lodging	8	8
Stem stiffness	7	7
Shortness of stem	6	8
Earliness of flowering	7	8
Earliness of maturity	6	6
LLS	6	5
Stem canker	5	6

Data source: Recommended List database 2007/2008

With medium flowering and relatively early to mature, Palmedor has an optimum pod-fill period, with low early season risk of frost damage and an early harvest.

Being agronomically robust, it is a variety you can push hard for high yields and at the same time reap the rewards of the HEAR market.