Primus

Status: HGCA Recommended List Trials

Primus is in recommended list trials for consideration at the end of 2010. It is one of the highest perfoming candidate varieties.

Key Benefits

• Exceptional hybrid vigour and reliable establishment
• Impressive stem stiffness and resistance to lodging
• One of the best variaties for oil content
• Relatively short for a hybrid allowing direct cutting, reducing harvest costs.

Yield and Gross Output

Excellent seed yield and gross output

Primus competes favouably with established leading variaties.

High oil content

Primus has a very high oil content which enables farmers to maximise their oil bonus payment after harvest.

Straw Characteristics

In additon to Primus' impressive yield it has very good lodging resistance and stem stiffness. At 155cm it is one of the shortest hybrids available making it easier to manage at harvest and providing good lodging resistance.

Agronomy

Primus shows good resistance to stem canker and light leaf spot which is important with tighter oilseed rotations. Primus has mid-early flowering and medium - early maturity.

Hybrid Vigour

• Primus offers excellent early vigour
• Good early vigour promotes reliable establishment and rapid ground cover
• Strong root structures helping to tolerate stressfull conditions

Sowing rate

Primus is supplied in unit packs (3ha) containing 1.5million germinating seeds, which equates to a sowing rate of 50 live seeds/m2. Seed rates will vary with seedbed conditions and establishment plant losses over winter.