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AGT-Carnac
Wheat
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Elite yield, particularly in low-medium yielding environments
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Udon noodle (ANW) quality
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An ideal replacement for popular variety Zen
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Best suited to tougher environments and seasons
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Excellent physical grain quality with low screenings and high test weights
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Mid season maturity, similar to Rottnest, Zen and Ninja
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Good yellow spot resistance
For full details download the AGT-Carnac fact sheet
Seed Availability
Please contact an AGT Affiliate or your local retailer for seed.
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AGT-Carnac can be traded between growers upon the completion of a License Agreement as part of AGT’s Seed Sharing™ initiative.
PBR and EPR
AGT-Carnac 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.
AGT-Carnac growers will be subject to a Grower License Agreement that acknowledges that an EPR of $3.90/tonne + GST must be paid on all production other than seed saved for planting.
Breeders comments
Hot on the heels of the release of Rottnest, our first ever udon noodle wheat for WA, comes complementary variety, AGT-Carnac.
Whilst we see Rottnest as the highest yielding udon noodle wheat over-all in WA, and offering a very wide adaptation, AGT-Carnac is viewed as Rottnest’s tougher counterpart.
AGT-Carnac has produced its best yield performance relative to other udon noodle varieties in sub two tonne per hectare situations. Typically, Zen has been the go-to variety in low yielding environments, with AGT-Carnac now producing yields in excess of 6% above Zen, in NVT testing, while offering a very similar adaptation pattern.
Compared with Zen, AGT-Carnac also offers higher test weights, and a better overall disease resistance package.
Versus Rottnest, AGT-Carnac has shown higher yields at the lower yielding range and improved grain size and test weight.
We believe AGT-Carnac is an ideal replacement for Zen and a complementary variety to Rottnest to be used in more marginal country.
The naming convention we have selected for our noodle wheat varieties is ‘islands’, with Carnac pairing with its more well-known counterpart, Rottnest.