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A new dual-purpose, APH winter wheat has outshone competitors in southern NSW, producing higher-grain yields while maintaining dry matter production.
Illabo, the first variety released out of AGT’s dedicated winter wheat breeding program at Wagga, was recently launched to benefit the mixed-farming sector as a higher-yielding alternative to popular variety EGA Wedgetail.
“Illabo stacks up very favourably with EGA Wedgetail, which has been the mainstay of our grazing wheats in this part of the world for a long time now,” Delta Agribusiness farm consultant in the NSW South West Slopes region Tim Condon said.
“The grazing value with cattle and sheep was excellent and we also found Illabo yielded well and was very easy to harvest.”
Daniel Moll, a fourth-generation farmer at Gerogery in the Riverina, said Illabo had proven a valuable inclusion to his mixed operation.
“The grazing value was quite good and the opportunity for early grazing was its best advantage,” Mr Moll said.
For Wagga-based grower Andrew Dumaresq, Illabo’s maturity was key for his grain-only production.
“We seem to get a bit of late summer rain and being able to sow a winter wheat like Illabo a week or so earlier than our spring varieties means we can better capitalise on that out-of-season rainfall,” he said.
"Illabo produced higher yields alongside competitors Kittyhawk and Longsword."