Terrific results for new wheat variety

A DURUM wheat variety recently released by the New South Wales Department of Primary Industries, DBA Bindaroi, has delivered superior yields, high quality and very low incidences of disease despite tough seasonal conditions last year.

DBA Bindaroi was released for commercial production in 2017 as a high yielding durum variety for dryland production in New South Wales and Queensland.

NSW Department of Primary Industries Durum Breeder, Dr Gururaj Kadkol, said the 2017 season started well, but conditions turned dry by late winter and stayed that way until the northern crops had reached mid-grain fill stage.

“The moisture stress affected yield and raised concerns regarding screenings,” Dr Gururaj said.

“To achieve DR1 grade at the silo, durum grain needs to meet specifications for protein content of 13 per cent or above, over 80 per cent hard vitreous kernels, and screenings below five per cent.”

Gurley growers Phil, Brad and Peter Jackson grew a seed crop of DBA Bindaroi at their property, Koreen, in a paddock planted to canola in 2016 and were delighted with the results.

“It was one of the best crops we have grown in a tough year,” Phil Jackson said.

“Although there was minimal in-crop rain, the figures speak for themselves, it produced 4.1t/ha, 14 per cent grain protein and two per cent screenings.

“Also, we didn’t see any crown rot damage. I am very impressed.”

Dr Kadkol said DBA Bindaroi has performed very well in the National Variety Trials and yielded fiver per cent better than Caparoi in a multi-year analysis of the NVT data.

“Performance in our internal DBA trials was similar, showing good grain quality and low screenings together with superior yield relative to Caparoi.”