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Brighton
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Dual purpose winter wheat, suitable for grazing and grain production
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A higher yielding alternative to Illabo and DS Bennett
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Quick-mid winter maturity, slightly quicker than Illabo
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Improved test weight compared with Illabo
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Improved yellow spot resistance over Illabo
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More susceptible to powdery mildew than Illabo
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AH quality classification in WA
For full details download the Brighton fact sheet
Seed Availability
Please contact an AGT Affiliate or your local retailer for seed.
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Brighton can be traded between growers upon the completion of a License Agreement as part of AGT’s Seed Sharing™ initiative.
PBR and EPR
Brighton is protected by Plant Breeders Rights (PBR) and all production (except seed saved for planting) is liable to an End Point Royalty (EPR), which funds future plant breeding.
Brighton growers will be subject to a Grower License Agreement that acknowledges that an EPR of $4.10/tonne + GST must be paid on all production other than seed saved for planting.
Breeders comments
Dual purpose, graze and grain wheat varieties have traditionally been very valuable to mixed farmers, providing more than one opportunity to generate income throughout the season. The use of dual purpose varieties has continued to gain in popularity, where growers are able to help fill the early winter feed gap without missing out on grain income at the end of the season.
We started a winter wheat breeding program at Wagga Wagga in 2014 in acknowledgement of the need for better performing long season and dual purpose varieties, with Illabo being a popular release from this program. Illabo has been a success story, offering mixed farmers a large step up in performance over the mainstay variety EGA Wedgetail, and finding a following among many WA growers.
Our newest variety in this space, Brighton, is poised to offer even more advancements in productivity, offering improvements in yield, yellow spot resistance and physical grain quality over Illabo.
Brighton also offers improved yellow spot resistance over Illabo, however is more susceptible to powdery mildew.
Brighton is a quick-mid maturing winter wheat, reaching head emergence slightly faster than Illabo across a range of sowing dates.
Brighton offers a compact plant type and carries aluminium (acid soils) tolerance genes. Like some other varieties, Brighton may express physiological leaf yellowing throughout winter; however will grow out of these symptoms in spring.
To maximise grain only yield, Brighton appears ideally suited to early-mid April sowing in the high yield environments of the Great Southern and South Coast, and where early moisture is available in lower rainfall environments of the eastern wheatbelt.