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In the video are:
· Dr Pamela Zwer, National Oat Breeding Program, South Australian Research and Development Institute
· Peter McCormack, National Oat Breeding Program, Department of Agriculture and Food Western Australia
· John Sydenham, Senior Technical Officer, Department of Agriculture and Food, Western Australia
· Joe Naughton, Technical Officer, Department of Agriculture and Food, Western Australia
· Max Karopoulos, Research Officer, Department of Agriculture and Food, Western Australia
Transcript
Pamela: The two new varieties that we've recently released set benchmarks in terms of grain yield potential and also improved disease resistance. Both Bannister and Williams are benchmarks in terms of grain yield production.
And so we can see that they are yielding approximately depending on the year and the location anywhere from 15 to 20 per cent better than the current milling variety Carrolup. So, you know, we might be surprised that Bannister might yield a bit more.
Williams and Bannister are also top performers in South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales setting benchmarks in terms of grain yield production.
The robust agronomic characteristics for the two new varieties are excellent, we see that they both have good standing ability, they are resistant to lodging, shattering resistant and in terms of the disease-resistance combinations they are excellent particularly compared to the current Western Australian varieties Carrolup and Wandering.
John: Like you say, these uppermost flag leaves are clean as a whistle, they’re nice and green.
Pamela: What I'd really like to highlight is that Williams is moderately susceptible to Septoria compared to all the other varieties which are susceptible or very susceptible.
This graph shows the plant height at York in 2013 Bannister is about 90 centimetres compared to Carrolup at about 120 and Kojonup at about 105 and Wandering at about 100 centimetres.
If we look at Williams you can see that Williams is taller than Bannister, Williams is about 110 centimetres compared to Kojonup up at 105 and Carrolup 120.
We see that Bannister has been given the tick of approval by Quaker Oats here in WA. As a milling variety Bannister will be test milled in the eastern states by Uncle Toby’s.
Also in terms of the grain milling characteristics has good hectolitre weight excellent groat per cent and slightly lower screenings than what we see in Carrolup and Williams.
The indication for us is that Williams will be accepted as a milling
Variety.
STOP PRESS. THE GRAINS INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA OAT COUNCIL HAS CLASSIFIED WILLIAMS AS AN OAT1 MILLING VARIETY FOR WESTERN AUSTRALIA EFFECTIVE 5 MARCH 2014
It has hectolitre weight slightly less than Carrolup and we see that the screenings are similar to Carrolup with the groat percent just coming in about with all of the other milling varieties.
The other thing that's interesting about Williams is that it has the highest level of beta gluten and we know that beta glucan is part of the healthy part that we get in oats and it lowers the blood cholesterol re-absorption. So in fact if you eat your porridge every morning it will lower your cholesterol.
Bannister and Williams will certainly replace Carrolup as a milling variety, Wandering as feed variety and I believe Kojonup as well.
On the 10th anniversary of the National Oat breeding program, I'm pleased to announce the release of two improved oat varieties, Bannister and Williams.
It's been 10 years now that you growers have been waiting for something that will make a real difference in terms of oat production.
And I think these two new varieties will make a difference so please go out buy some seed and try them.
I'm sure you won't be disappointed.