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2 Row
Spring
Distilling

RGT ASTEROID

Grain distilling market
Strengths

High DP variety

Unique quality

Very good specific weight

FEATURES AND BENEFITS

RGT Asteroid is ideally suited to the grain distilling market where it has found favour with end users, resulting in buy back contracts for harvest 2025. It is higher yielding than Fairing and also exhibits good agronomic traits and disease resistance.

AGRONOMICS

Ripening +1 Days +/- Planet

Height 73 cm

Lodging - PGR 7 1-9

Resistance to brackling 8 1-9

Specific weight 68.3 (kg/hl)

Disease

1 = very sensitive / 9 = very tolerant

Mildew 9

Brown rust 5

Rhynchosporium 4

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