Hockley Wheat

[Hamloc]

Just wondering if anyone has grown it? How does it compare to Wheatland, Viewfield, Brandon? Personally a fan of Viewfield, hard to thrash(less so with Mad concaves) but yields great and stands well.

[goalieguy847]

Hey hamloc
had this discussion going in the other (combine) forum.as well.

Hockley was good in all aspects ( standability, maturity etc) except that it had bad ergot. 2 yrs in a row actually in side by sides it had rejectable levels of ergot. So we dropped it for that reason.
i know ergot is a crapshoot and it is more about flowering period and ditch grass than anything else..so take it for what you will. Yieldwise it DID lag behind broadacres and viewfield...but beat alida and brandon ( but by 2 bushels so reallly negligible).

Never done wheatland so cant comment.

Ergot is not normally an issue where we are.

We have switched to broadacres for the next few yrs and forefront cps. Will try some Manness this yr as well.

[westernvicki]

Wheatland is an amazing wheat. First wheat to blow the 100 bushel yield in variety trials when it came out. It has been the best wheat since then, in my opinion. Not as great for sawfly as it is an easy threshing wheat.

[jamesb]

We have grown Brandon for a lot of years, always had been happy until this year. I had been looking for a non VB wheat so tried Hockley. Side by side this year with Brandon on same field showed the Hockley far better to stand up than the Brandon. I would say a slight improvement on yield. It will be all Hockley for us and probably retire the Brandon. Will always keep looking over the fence though for something new.

[FarmJunkie]

Had Manness Hockley and Wheatland all right beside each other same field and same fertility. Manness was by far the better yielder then Wheatland and then Hockley. Standability was similar in all them. Harvest ability was similar but Manness was poorer quality wise. We have been growing Wheatland and Manness since. Have some new ones on trial now. Will see at the end of this year which one wins out.

[SASKFARMER]

Hodge should be called lodge and hockley has no midge

[goalieguy847]

Is manness not a cps/ hard red blend? Local seed grower explained it and i got confused. Still am. In wet conditions manness should be the top yielding wheat in western canada...but apparently it does really shallow roots so doesnt handle dry conditions well.
Interesting to hear lower quality but kind of makes sense.

Im currently waiting on
wheat king? supposed to be out in 2026..

[goalieguy847]

Westking. Thatssss the new one..

[westernvicki]

SY Manness is a CWRS.
Interesting that the yield as in the Sk Seed guide is rated very low:

SY Manness 96 100
AAC Wheatland VB 104 106.

On our farm Wheatland did well in 2021 in the dry and well in wet years too.

I really wish the seed guide would go to annual head-to-head actual yields by a plot like Manitoba does, indeed that way you can compare actual yields not averaged.

I like you approach try a few new ones. As sometimes the book does not do a variety justice.