Appaloosa Spring Barley

Appaloosa is a spring barley with a very high yield potential both with and without fungicide treatment. It has no major agronomic weaknesses and has shown excellent potential for distilling.


Parentage: 49B113-502 11 x Decanter
Breeder: Nickerson

Official trials status 2007: Recommended (NE region)


YIELD POTENTIAL
TREATED
  UK Treated yield NE Treated yield
APPALOOSA 104 105
Optic 96 97
Cocktail 103 102
Cellar 98 96

YIELD POTENTIAL
UNTREATED
APPALOOSA 92
Optic 79
Cocktail 91
Cellar 87
Source: HGCA Recommended List 2007*
Appaloosa has an excellent yield potential when fungicide treated, 8% above Optic and 1% above Cocktail.
Appaloosa has performed very well in the HGCA North east region, 3% above Cocktail & 8% above Optic.
When not treated with fungicide Appaloosa has a very high yield potential, similar to Cocktail.
AGRONOMIC CHARACTERS
APPALOOSA Optic Cellar Cocktail
Straw Height (cms) 70 72 67 67
Resistance to lodging 9 8 8 9
Resistance to Brackling 8 5 5 9
Earliness of ripening +/- Optic 0 - -1 -1

DISEASE RESISTANCE
APPALOOSA Optic Cellar Cocktail
Mildew 8 5 9 7
Yellow rust 8 9 4 4
Brown rust 5 5 7 6
Rhynchosporium 4 4 4 5

GRAIN QUALITY
APPALOOSA Optic Cellar Cocktail
Specific weight (kg/hl) 68.7 70.4 69.5 70.2
Sieving % < 2.5mm 10.4 10.3 7.2 10.4
Sieving %  2.25mm 3.3 3.0 2.3 3.4
Nitrogen % 1.45 1.55 1.54 1.49
Glycosidic nitrile (GN) ppb LOW MEDIUM HIGH
 
Source: HGCA Recommended List 2007.

Appaloosa is a moderately tall strawed variety and has shown very low levels of lodging when not pgr treated.

Appaloosa has very good resistance to mildew and the rusts; Rhynchosporium resistance is similar to Optic.

Appaloosa has a good specific weight.

Appaloosa has shown excellent distilling potential with a HWE similar to Optic and a low level of Glycosidic nitrile.

All data is a partial extraction from the HGCA 2007 Recommended List.  The full database can be consulted at www.hgca.com

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