Barley Varieties
NEW! Leabrook Barley
- New variety, developed and trialed as W14896
- Closely related to Compass
- Has passed Stage 1 accreditation for malting and brewing
- Seed available in 2020

RGT Planet
- High yielding, Mid season, malt accredited variety
- Good early vigour and competitive growth
- Good straw strength with reduced risk of lodging, good irrigation barley option

RGT Planet Barley – Tasmania (2017)

La Trobe
- An early maturing variety with good yields in low to medium rainfall environments
- Broadly adapted barley
- Good straw strength
- Useful leaf disease resistance and good physical grain characteristics
- High hectolitre weights
- Export malting variety

Spartacus CL
- High yielding, early maturing, malt accredited Clearfield® barley
- Short rachilla hair length, reducing itchiness
- Good straw strength, lodging resistance and head retention compared to Scope CL
- Similar plant architecture and agronomy to La Trobe

Spartacus CL Barley in Baker Seed Co 2016 Cereal and Time of Sowing Trial site. Sown 21/5/16 expressing its erect canopy making it suitable for under sown pastures.

Banks
- Banks is a high yielding, mid to late flowering potential malting barley
- Optimum sowing time from 25th April through to 15th of May
- Consistently stable yield performance
- Ideally suited to medium to high rainfall environments
- Banks has a low straw volume making it suitable for no-till farming systems
- Good physical grain properties
- Banks’ earliest potential malt accreditation will be in September 2019

Photograph below taken 3/9/2018 at BSC Trial Site

Compass
- Mid to early maturity
- Malt variety
- Long coleoptile length, good early vigour
- Competitive canopy
- Low screenings & high retention package
- High yielding variety


Fathom Barley
- Feed barley variety
- Early maturity
- Broad adaptation
- Low screenings and high test weight
- High grain yield

Rosalind
- Mid maturing feed barley
- Good yield, straw strength and head retention
- Best performance observed with a May sowing
- Short coleoptile length – important to consider sowing depth
