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.

Commodus CL

Low-Med

IMI Tolerant

Quick to Mid

“Think Imi Compass”.

High yielding, quick-mid maturing variety
Agronomically similar to Compass
Similar yield potential to Compass based on InterGrain and NVT national yield trials
Ideally suited to lighter soils and medium-low rainfall environments
CCN resistance and useful levels of spot form net blotch resistance
Excellent grain size with high retention levels and low screenings.
Moderate hectolitre weight
Similar lodging tolerance and head loss risk to Compass and may require agronomic management

EPR $4.25.

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 Planet

Med – High

Malt

Quick 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.

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.

Minotaur

Med-High

Pot Malt

Slow – Mid Mat

Minotaur (tested as AGTB0213) enters the market as a clear step-up from the landmark European variety RGT PlanetP. While RGT PlanetP is a direct introduction from Europe, Minotaur is the result of an Australian by European cross, bringing together European yield potential with Australian adaptation to our tough growing conditions.

A lower risk alternative to RGT Planet with similar top-end yield potential
Broader adaptation than RGT Planet, delivering more stable yields across a wider range of environmental conditions
Has entered the Barley Australia malt accreditation program but is currently deliverable as Barley/Feed

EPR $4.00

Zena CL

Med-High

IMI Tolerant

Mid Mat

High yielding, mid-maturing variety
Similar yield potential to RGT Planet based on preliminary InterGrain and NVT national yield trials
Useful levels of powdery mildew and leaf rust
Adequate grain size and moderate hectolitre weight
Similar lodging tolerance and head loss risk to RGT Planet
Zena CL has been accepted into the Barley Australia malt accreditation program with the earliest potential malt accreditation in March 2024.

EPR $4.55

Titan AX

Low-Med

Aggressor Tolerant

Mid Mat

Titan AX is the first barley variety in the world to carry tolerance to Aggressor® herbicide (Group 1, Quizalofop-P-Ethyl), which allows growers to control susceptible populations of barley grass, brome grass, annual ryegrass, wild oats and other grass weeds in the barley phase of the rotation; offering an alternative to Clearfield® technology which growers have relied on for some time now.

EPR $4.25

Moby

Low-Med

Rapid Establishment

Multiple Grazings

Moby is an early maturing, 6 row, white seeded awnless barley with excellent winter growth and rapid establishment. Leaf size varies according to environmental conditions and is more comparable with oat varieties than traditional barley types. Moby will tolerate multiple grazings until the production of the first node. Being winter active, Moby offers an extended sowing window compared to forage oats from mid autumn to mid winter. Seedling vigour in Moby is exceptional, being first to grazing in all Pasture Genetics forage cereal trials conducted to date. Moby has shown significant versatility, adapting to a large range of sowing conditions and environments. Disease resistance appears typical of other commercial barley cultivars with good net blotch resistance, adequate field leaf scald and spot blotch resistance.

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.