STR Pace is the first Sprinter Wheat to be launched and has been recommended by the AHDB as a high yielding group 1 spring wheat variety with exceptional specific weight and early maturity.
As well as AHDB and VL trials, STR Pace has been further drilled October to spring in private trials over the last four years.
STR Pace has performed comparably to group 1 winter wheat competitors throughout the autumn drilling windows with a much-improved specific weight.
STR Pace has solid agronomics balancing yield, grain quality and maintaining a respectable disease resistance.
STR Pace is the earliest maturing Group 1 milling spring wheat on the 2025 AHDB Recommended list and one of the earliest overall. Earliness of maturity is a key consideration for a milling variety to safeguard hagberg and potentially reduce sprouting risk and drying costs on farm.
An earlier harvest offers greater flexibility for subsequent crop options or to establish a following cover crop in good time.
With the highest specific weight of all recommended spring wheat varieties these are further illustrations of the variety’s ability to build yield quickly and reliably.
STR Pace | KWS Harsum | KWS Ladum | |
|---|---|---|---|
End-use group | UKFM Group 1 | ||
Scope of recommendation | UK | UK | UK |
Variety status | NEW | C | |
UK yield as % control (spring sowing) | |||
Fungicide-treated (7.5 t/ha) | 101 | 101 | 99 |
Disease resistance | |||
Mildew (1‒9) | [8] | [7] | [7] |
Yellow rust (1‒9) | 5 | 7 | 7 |
Brown rust (1‒9) | 7 | 5 | 6 |
Septoria tritici (1‒9) | [6] | 6 | 6 |
Orange wheat blossom midge | - | R | - |
Agronomic features (spring sowing) | |||
Lodging with PGR (%) | - | [2] | [1] |
Straw length without PGR (cm) | 80 | 78 | 74 |
Ripening (days +/- Mulika) | -1 | +1 | 0 |
Grain quality (spring sowing) | |||
Endosperm texture | Hard | Hard | Hard |
Protein content (%) | 13.0 | 12.8 | 13.4 |
Hagberg Falling Number | 303 | 325 | 324 |
Specific weight (kg/hl) | 81.2 | 78.9 | 78.5 |
Private trials, Northants, images taken 13th November 2024, October-drilled.
Sprinter wheat significantly faster speed of development
Photos taken on the 13th November 2024
Variety | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | Yield Mean | Specific Weight Mean |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Skyfall | 9.54 | 12.93 | 11.01 | 11.16 | 73.18 |
STR Pace | 10.25 | 12.11 | 10.49 | 10.95 | 78.08 |
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