Crusoe

Highest protein content available

  • UKFM: Group 1
  • Market Options : UK breadmaking / UKP bread wheat for export
  • OWBM Resistance : No
  • Sowing Date : Normal
  • Rotational Position : First & second cereal
  • Soil Type : Light & heavy soils

The Benchmark Group 1 with the highest protein content available. Since its introduction in 2012, it is no surprise that Crusoe has become one of the miller’s first choice varieties. 

This Group 1 variety offers growers an excellent level of security, combining good agronomics with good sprouting resistance.

Crusoe has shown consistent yield performance in some very erratic weather conditions. The variety has a good agronomic profile with good disease resistance ratings and an inherently higher grain protein content than its competitor lines in the group. 

Millers have seen increasing volumes of this variety through the plants and are happy with its results – giving good crumb structure and baking performance. 

Crusoe has shown good yield consistency over years, regions, rotational positions and soil type.

Crusoe winter wheat is a consistent Group 1 milling wheat - widely used and relied on by millers. It has good disease resistance with a 8 for yellow rust and a 6.3 for Septoria tritici.

Crusoe has very good grain quality with a high stable hagberg falling number. It is a short, stiff strawed variety.

Meets the specification for UK breadmaking and UKP for export.

Strengths

  • Highest protein on the AHDB Recommended List

  • Good disease resistance with a 8 for yellow rust and a 6.3 for Septoria tritici

  • Meets the specification for UK breadmaking and UKP for export

Technical Information

Grain Quality

CRUSOESkyfall KWS ZyattSY Cheer
Protein Content - milling spec (%)13.212.912.513.0
Hagberg Falling Number265265248299
Specific Weight (kg/hl)78.379.178.379.5
Resistance to Sprouting656-

Agronomic Characteristics

CRUSOE SkyfallKWS ZyattSY Cheer
Lodging - without PGR7888
Lodging - with PGR8787
Straw Length (cm) without PGR84878691
Ripening (days +/- Skyfall)+100+1

Disease Resistance

CRUSOESkyfallKWS ZyattSY Cheer
Mildew767(8)
Yellow Rust 8337
Brown Rust3976
Septoria tritici6.35.86.36.0
Eyespot56@6@4
Fusarium776(7)
OWBM-R--

Yield (& treated control)

CRUSOESkyfallKWS ZyattSY Cheer
UK95969997
East95969897
West96969998
North949597(98)
Untreated75667184
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Crusoe

Highest protein content available

The Benchmark Group 1 with the highest protein content available. Since its introduction in 2012, it is no surprise that Crusoe has become one of the miller’s first choice varieties. 

This Group 1 variety offers growers an excellent level of security, combining good agronomics with good sprouting resistance.

Crusoe has shown consistent yield performance in some very erratic weather conditions. The variety has a good agronomic profile with good disease resistance ratings and an inherently higher grain protein content than its competitor lines in the group. 

Millers have seen increasing volumes of this variety through the plants and are happy with its results – giving good crumb structure and baking performance. 

Crusoe has shown good yield consistency over years, regions, rotational positions and soil type.

Crusoe winter wheat is a consistent Group 1 milling wheat - widely used and relied on by millers. It has good disease resistance with a 8 for yellow rust and a 6.3 for Septoria tritici.

Crusoe has very good grain quality with a high stable hagberg falling number. It is a short, stiff strawed variety.

Meets the specification for UK breadmaking and UKP for export.

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Key Strengths

  • Highest protein on the AHDB Recommended List

  • Good disease resistance with a 8 for yellow rust and a 6.3 for Septoria tritici

  • Meets the specification for UK breadmaking and UKP for export

Technical Information

Grain Quality

CRUSOESkyfall KWS ZyattSY Cheer
Protein Content - milling spec (%)13.212.912.513.0
Hagberg Falling Number265265248299
Specific Weight (kg/hl)78.379.178.379.5
Resistance to Sprouting656-

All data is from the AHDB Recommended List 2024/25 database. See AHDB website for full dataset.

Agronomic Characteristics

CRUSOE SkyfallKWS ZyattSY Cheer
Lodging - without PGR7888
Lodging - with PGR8787
Straw Length (cm) without PGR84878691
Ripening (days +/- Skyfall)+100+1

All data is from the AHDB Recommended List 2024/25 database. See AHDB website for full dataset. On the 1-9 scales, high figures indicate that the variety shows the character to a high degree.

Disease Resistance

CRUSOESkyfallKWS ZyattSY Cheer
Mildew767(8)
Yellow Rust 8337
Brown Rust3976
Septoria tritici6.35.86.36.0
Eyespot56@6@4
Fusarium776(7)
OWBM-R--

All data is from the AHDB Recommended List 2024/25 database. See AHDB website for full dataset. On the 1-9 scales, high figures indicate that the variety shows the character to a high degree. @ = believed to carry the Pch1 Rendezvous resistance gene to eyespot but this has not been verified in Recommended List tests. ( ) = limited data.

Yield (& treated control)

CRUSOESkyfallKWS ZyattSY Cheer
UK95969997
East95969897
West96969998
North949597(98)
Untreated75667184

All data is from the AHDB Recommended List 2024/25 database. See AHDB website for full dataset.

What Our Experts Say

What Our Customer's Say

“At a time when prices are low, it is reassuring to know that we can grow a wheat that not only yields but delivers the quality premium that makes a difference to the bottom line.”
Farmer, Funtingdon, Chichester
Joe-Adams---Crusoe-winter-wheat
“We...moved over to Crusoe about 9 years ago and now it is the only variety we grow across the farm. Crusoe has performed very well for us, and whilst the variety doesn’t have the highest yields of the Group 1’s, we can rely on it to consistently produce the protein spec of 13% that we are looking for.”
Joe Adams, Arable Farmer, Northamptonshire

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