Barley

For malting or feed barley can play a major role in your rotation. With a range of different barleys that can be grown successfully across a wide variety of environments and programs AGF Seeds can provide you with the best quality seed.

Gretchen

Med – High

Pot. Malt

Mid-Late Mat

Key Features

High Yield Potential
Stong Disease Package
Balanced Malt with High Extract*
Mid-Late Maturity

AGF Seeds’s new (available 2026) conventional spring barley, Gretchen has shown 5 to 10% yield improvements over RGT Planet. Gretchen is a mid-late maturity barley with a similar maturity to RGT Planet and offers a sound disease package with strength in Scald resistance and significant improvement in Net Form Net Blotch vs RGT Planet.

* Gretchen is currently being evaluated for malt accreditation with the potential to enter the official accreditation process in 2027. A proven malting variety in Europe we expect Gretchen to be a very attractive variety for Australian maltsters and breweries.

EPR $4.00/t GST exclusive

Fandaga

Med – High

Feed

Mid Mat

Key Features

Slower Maturity than Planet
Improved Net Blotch resistance compared to other popular varieties.
Suitable for growing in Southern and Northern Australia

Fandaga is a medium height variety suited to medium to high rainfall regions. Fandaga offers an ability to yield, consistency and useful disease resistance traits. EPR $3.65

Fandaga was the 2024 Royal Agricultural Society of Queensland’s Champion Crop.

Peter & Wayne Anderson grew an outstanding paddock of Fandaga that yielded 9.841 t/ha and won them the coveted award.

AGT Bunyip IA

Medium

IMI
Tolerant

Aggressor Tolerant

AGT-Bunyip IA is the first variety in the world to offer dual herbicide tolerance, combining the ever-popular tolerance to imidazolinone herbicides, and the newer CoAXium® (Aggressor® hebicide) tolerance.

Both herbicide tolerances are effective on susceptible populations of common problem grass weeds including brome grass and barley grass.

This ‘stacked’ herbicide tolerance provides increased flexibility.

Tolerant to Imidazolinone herbicides and Aggressor herbicide
Similar plant type and maturity to Maximus CL
Very good physical grain package- low screenings and very high test weights
Entered into the malt evaluation program

Maximus CL

Med

IMI
Tolerant

Malt

NOW MALT ACCREDITED Maximus is a high yielding, quick-mid Maturing CL barley.

Represents an overall improvement compared to Spartacus CL for disease resistance
Good net form net blotch resistance
Good scald resistance
Improved spot form net blotch resistance
Strong lodging tolerance and a low-medium head loss risk
Excellent grain plumpness (larger than Spartacus CL) and hectolitre weight

EPR $4.25.

RGT Atlantis

Med-High

Water Logging Tolerant

Mid-Slow

RGT Atlantis is new waterlogging tolerant barley with high yield potential in the medium and high rainfall zone areas. These areas with high yield potential can also experience periods of transient inundation during the growing season and this can limit the yield potential significantly.

RGT Atlantis has been bred from RGT Planet combined with a native waterlogging tolerant barley. This cross enables the plants to withstand periods of waterlogging via introduced structures called “aerenchyma”. Normally waterlogged soils are low in oxygen and these aerenchyma allow oxygen to remain in the roots during extended periods of waterlogging and keep the plants growing.

Neo CL

Med-High

IMI Tolerant

Mid Spring

Exceptionally high yielding, InterGrain data indicates a 10% yield improvement over RGT Planet
Mid-Spring maturity, imidazolinone (IMI) tolerant
Outstanding disease resistance package including excellent resistance to cereal cyst nematode, powdery mildew and the spot form of net blotch, and useful resistance to the net form of net blotch and leaf scald.
Ideally suited to medium-high rainfall environments
Neo has a semi-prostrate early growth habit and a medium plant height
Good head retention and good tolerance to lodging and head loss
Good grain quality attributes including high levels of grain plumpness, substantially superior to RGT Planet.
Neo has been accepted into Grain’s Australia malting accreditation program with the earliest potential final accreditation in March 2025.

EPR $4.25 GST exclusive.

Newton

Dual Purpose

Winter Barley

Slow

Dual purpose variety with slow early development enabling early sowing for grazing, a long growing season, then harvest maturity equivalent to other long season cereals.

Highly competitive plant type with high total biomass production and feed quality grain.

Very high tillering ability with particularly prostrate early growth.

EPR $3.50

RGT Planet

Med – High

Malt

Mid-Slow Mat

RGT Planet has a strong agronomic package that, combined with its yield potential, will make it an economic option for Australian barley growers. RGT Planet received full malt accreditation in Australia in March 2019. It already has malt status in many European countries and strong demand from European and Asian brewers. RGT Planet has good disease resistance to mildew, rhincosporum, net blotch and brown rust. It also has good straw strength and reduced risk of lodging.

EPR $4.00.