LG Typhoon is a high yielding group 4 hard wheat, that joins the 2022-2023 AHDB Recommended List, from breeders Limagrain UK.
LG Typhoon offers UK growers the package that they have been asking for in a hard wheat; a clean, consistent and resilient variety, with a solid all-round disease package and OWBM resistance.
It has shown excellent consistency of performance, yielding 102% across very differing climatic seasons and across the varying regions of the UK.
Yield consistency
| Regions | Years | ||||||
| UK | East | West | North | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | |
| LG Typhoon | 102 | 102 | 102 | [102] | 102 | [102] | 102 |
[ ] = limited data.
“LG Typhoon offers growers flexibility in the rotation, across both sowing date and soil type,” says Ron Granger, Limagrain UK’s arable technical manager.
“The variety exhibits a genuine suitability for the earlier sowing situation, endorsed by its combination of desirable agronomic characteristics – and this is reflected in its very high yield performance at this drilling window.”
LG Typhoon also excels as a second wheat.
| Rotation | Sowing Date | Soil Type | |||||
| First cereal | Second cereal | Early Sep (before 25Sept) |
Trials sown (25Sept-31Oct) |
Late (after 1Nov) |
Light Soils |
Heavy Soils |
|
| LG Typhoon | 101 | 104 | [105] | 102 | [101] | [102] | 101 |
| Graham | 102 | 101 | 100 | 102 | 100 | 102 | 101 |
[ ] = limited data.
The reason for LG Typhoon’s consistent performance comes down to its excellent all-round foliar disease resistance, explains Mr Granger.
“This is shown by an untreated yield that is above many of the RL feed varieties, supported by a resistance rating of 7 for Septoria – which significantly comes from a combination of sources different to those in current RL varieties,” he says.
“LG Typhoon offers excellent yellow rust resistance, with a RL rating of 9 combined with YR seedling resistance – a valuable tool regarding fungicide programmes and timings.”
“The variety offers more than excellent yellow rust ratings; it is an attractive proposition with good ratings for all the diseases, including (6) for eyespot and Fusarium, and the very valuable bonus of Orange Wheat Blossom Midge (OWBM) resistance.”
Mr Granger adds: “In terms of grain quality, LG Typhoon offers a good specific weight (76.3 kg/hl), certainly equal or indeed better than many of the feed wheats on the new RL.”
Limagrain UK’s wheat breeder, Phil Tailby, summarises the main traits of LG Typhoon
- The key word to describe LG Typhoon is ‘consistent’; it has performed consistently well in treated trials across all years of testing and across all regions.
- The variety has extremely high untreated yield, which highlights the excellent foliar disease resistances, which include both adult and seedling resistance to yellow rust and a new Septoria resistance package not found in any other variety on the RL.
- It also offers flexibility to UK farmers, performing very well as a second wheat, and is a genuine early drilling variety.
