Soft Group 4 with exciting distilling potential
Swallow is a soft distilling wheat for the North Region.
Swallow is a superb variety for the North, with all of the desired attributes; excellent grain quality, short, stiff straw, early maturity and a solid disease resistance package.
Swallow produces exceptional alcohol yields and is an excellent choice for the Scottish distilling market.
Superb Distilling Potential and Early Drilling
In distilling tests Swallow has produced consistent, superb alcohol yields in every year of testing. It is a preferred variety for the distilling market and should be popular on farm.
Swallow tillers well and produces high yields, particularly in the North, where it will find favour with its superb distilling potential. It competes well with established varieties in the Northern market.
Swallow shows potential for early drilling, which will appeal to many growers.
SWRI Alcohol Yields
| Grain Quality | |
|---|---|
| Specific weight (kg/hl) | 76.6 |
| Hagberg | 255 |
| Protein content % | 10.9 |
Source: AHDB RL 2024/25
Swallow has notably the shortest, stiffest straw on the RL and is early to ripen, important attributes in particular for the Northern market.
Swallow has good disease resistance and resistance to OWBM. It has maintained a good level of resistance year
on year. Swallow also shows excellent potential for early drilling, which should also appeal to growers.
| Agronomics | |
|---|---|
| Resistance to lodging -PGR | 8 |
| Resistance to lodging +PGR | 9 |
| Height -PGR (cm) | 80 |
| Ripening (days +/- Skyfall) | +1 |
| Resistance to sprouting | [5] |
Source: AHDB RL 2024/25
* see ahdb.org.uk/rl for more information
| Disease Resistance | |
|---|---|
| Mildew | 6 |
| Yellow rust | 7 |
| Yellow rust (young plant) * | r |
| Brown rust | 5 |
| Septoria tritici | 5.1 |
| Eyespot | 4 |
| Fusarium | 6 |
| OWBM | R |
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