Hammer

Status: East & West region Recommended List

Don’t take a hit choose Hammer!

Key Facts

 

·        Very high oil content

·        High gross output

·        Exceptional autumn vigour and reliable establishment

·        Excellent resistance to diseases such as stem canker

 

 

 

Hammer was a new hybrid for 2009 being added to the HGCA Recommended List 2009/2010.The variety has a very high gross output, being 2% higher than the market leader Castille. With a score of 6.2 for resistance to stem canker, Hammer has the second highest hybrid resistance; with 4% higher gross output than Excel, and a shorter, stiffer more manageable stem. In Masstocks trials, Hammer has shown to be an extremely fast autumn developer.

 Oil Content - East and West Region

Yield and Gross Output

Hammer has a high gross output (104) compared with other leading varieties featured on the HGCA RL. Its gross output is 2% higher than Castille and 3% higher than Excel helping to boost profits at harvest. It has one of the highest scores for oil content (45.8) on the Recommended List. This means it commands an oil bonus far in excess of the other most popular varieties such as Castille and ES- Astrid.  Growers could receive an oil bonus worth around £350 per lorry load at harvest extra by grower Hammer.

Gross Output – East and West Region

Growing within the United Kingdom

 Hammer is a key variety on the East & West Recommended List where its high rating for resistance to stem canker (6.2) and light leaf spot (5.4) is an major advantage. Hammer is an early to flower and medium late maturity, which fits well with other varieties to spread harvest workload.

 Straw Characteristics

Hammer has excellent straw characteristics, with a strong relatively short stem. It has one of the highest scores for stem stiffness (8) as well as scoring extremely well for resistance to lodging (8). Hammer also shows very fast autumn development.

 Resistance to Lodging and Stem Stiffness - East and West

Drilling Dates

Hammer should be drilled according to target seed numbers (seeds per square metre) not by seed weight. Hammer is supplied in unit packs (3-4ha), containing 1.8 million seeds, which equates to a sowing rate of 60 seed per m² (3ha).
 

The above data has been sourced from the HGCA Recommended List 2010/2011

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 What our growers have to say?

 ‘we have decided to put all our eggs in one basket and grow Hammer this year, as we really need a variety with early vigour in order to have the best chance of establishing before the winter sets in. With other work commitments and a busy harvest period we generally drill our rape late so a hybrid was an obvious choice. We also work on a very tight second wheat rotation, therefore stem canker resistance is important when choosing a variety’. 

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