Sherborne

Sherborne is a short, stiff strawed Group 4 feed wheat with good septoria tritici and excellent fusarium ear blight resistance.

Very high yielding as a first wheat, Sherborne has performed well as a second or continuous wheat. With a prostrate and leafy growth habit, Sherborne also demonstrates very good green leaf retention.

Yield performance is maintained across both soil type and region, both with and without fungicide, making Sherborne a reliable variety on farm.

Sherborne has been consistently high yielding in the West region over a number of seasons, with a yield performance exceeding market leading varieties.

 

Grain Quality

Sherborne produces bright grain with good physical characters and has moderate to good sprouting resistance.

Data from the HGCA Recommended List Candidate trials

	Sherborne	Claire	Malacca
Specific Wt	74.5	75.0	74.2
HFN	176	153	232
Protein (%)	11.5	11.3	11.9

 

Agronomy

Sherborne offers a very comprehensive all round disease resistance package with excellent resistance to yellow and brown rust and very good resistance to septoria tritici. A prostrate and leafy growth habit gives very good ground cover early in the growing season which an benefit weed control.

 

Disease Resistance

Data from the HGCA Recommended List Candidate trials

	Sherborne	Claire	Malacca	Except
Mildew	5	4	7	(6)
Yellow rust	9	9	8	(9)
Brown Rust	9	(7)	7	(6)?
Septoria tritici	6	6	6	(8)
Eyespot	4	6	6	(4)

Sherborne also demonstrates the same exceptional resistance to fusarium ear blight as its parent, Biscay.

 

Fusarium Ear Blight

Data from the HGCA Recommended List Candidate trials

	Sherborne	Biscay	Claire	Malacca	Einstein
HGCA CEL Rating	(8)	8	7	6	7
KWS Data*	8	8	6	5	4

*German Data 2005 natural infection, very high pressure, previous crop maize