AUSTRALIAN canola growers should get more value for their money if they plant a particular hybrid triazine tolerant variety.
The producer of Hyola canola, Advanta Seeds, has announced that the country’s most widely-grown TT hybrid, Hyola 559TT, will be sold in 2018 at a reduced suggested recommended retail price of $21.50 per kilogram (ex-GST).
Advanta Seeds canola business manager Justin Kudnig said this provided substantial savings to growers and allowed them to take advantage of the benefits of hybrid TT canola over open pollinated TT canola.
“Hyola 559TT is Australia’s most proven and widely-grown hybrid TT canola and this value pricing offer for 2018 provides growers a much more attractive buying position against other hybrid TT canola and also when purchasing OP TT canola seed,” Mr Kudnig said.
“If we use an example of a grower who plants Hyola 559TT at 2.5 kilograms a hectare, seed cost would be $53.75/ha, compared to purchased OP TT seed sown on average at 3kg/ha using $16.50/kg, which then costs about $49.50/ha.
“With some leading OP TT varieties attracting an end point royalty of $5 a tonne and for any growers harvesting more than 1 tonne a hectare, the final cost of the purchased OP TT seed investment would be more than $54/ha.”
Mr Kudnig said this put Hyola 559TT at a competitive pricing level for growers and further enabled them to capture the additional agronomic benefits of a hybrid.
“The extra benefits over OP TT varieties include up to 50 per cent extra in-field weed suppression, much higher genetic blackleg rating of R-MR with triple-gene resistance groups ABD, and a much lower likelihood of extra costs of fungicides for blackleg management.
“Independent research across Australia has shown more reliable top-end yield potential and consistent performance from Hyola 559TT over most OP TT varieties in areas that yield above 1.5t/ha.”
