Reilly AH Wheat.pdf

Reilly is a wheat variety developed by BASF, offering reliable resilience in challenging conditions. It has a capacity to thrive in low to medium rainfall environments and exceptional resistance to all major pathotypes of stripe rust. Key strengths include great yield stability in tough conditions, new genetics for Australian growers, robust stripe rust resistance package, excellent grain quality features, and minimal screenings. Reilly is classified as AH in the Southern zone with potential to extend into other zones. It has a mid-May sowing window, maturity of mid, and is a medium height, awned, spring wheat. Compared to Scepter, Reilly has similar days to heading followed by a faster finish. Reilly was bred by BASF and evaluated as the line number BH120020S-11. It is protected by Plant Breeder’s Rights and an EPR of $3.55 (+ GST) per tonne applies to grain production.

Reilly has a yield percentage of 120, 100, 80, 60, 40, and 20, with a protein content of 11.1%, test weight of 82.5 kg/hL, and minimal screenings. It has good overall disease resistance, with a stripe rust package, and is classified as MRMS. Reilly is also resistant to cereal cyst nematodes, leaf rust, stem rust, septoria tritici, yellow leaf spot, leaf spot, powdery mildew, and mildew. The variety has a disease and pest resistance rating of MRMS, with a cereal cyst nematode rating of S and a leaf rust rating of S.

Reilly was named after Richard Reilly, who was able to overcome challenges to thrive in a tough farming environment. The variety has a long history, with the original Richard Reilly arriving at Corack in 1874. The latest Richard Reilly and his family are still farming at Corack, testament to the resilience of the Reilly clan.