Delabrad 2 Bread Wheat Seed

This is a HIGH YIELD AND VERY HIGH QUALITY bread wheat in the mid early maturity group, with hard, awned red grains, with white medium-large ears and a sturdy peduncle, and that can produce many tillers under appropriate conditions.  Its characteristics and values, based on data and observations collected during tests, are briefly presented below.

It is resistant to cold weather and winter conditions. It does not get affected by early and late spring frosts. It is a variety that flourishes at lower temperatures. Thanks to these characteristics, it grows in many parts of our country where wheat is cultivated, all of the ground and irrigated areas, except for places where the winters are warm in the south and the high temperatures come early.

It is resistant to tilting due to its medium-length and sturdy peduncle. It can produce up to 10 tillers under suitable conditions.  The average number of tillers is 5.  Ears grow larger as conditions improve. It can produce up to 80 grains in one ear. The number of grains per ear is 45–55.

It is a variety of very high quality, with its thousand-grain and hectoliter weights ranging from medium to high, and its gluten, sedimentation and energy rates from high to very high.

Its nitrogen use efficiency improves greatly, especially under heavy rain or irrigation. With the increased efficiency in the use of nitrogen, yield and quality also improve.  Under conditions in which irrigation is possible, irrigation at the beginning of earing and grain filling has a highly positive effect on yield and quality.

The yield of our DELABRAD 2 variety is in the 500–850 kg/da range. Irrigation and high rainfall increases the yield. Due to the increased water use, fertilization especially in summer must be carried out using ammonium nitrate, and at the beginning of earing, and a slightly increased use of fertilizer (5 kg/da max.) will improve both yield and quality.

The recommended seed quantity for October is 20–22 kg/da.