Clutha Gold
Swede
- Very high-yielding main crop swede
- New Zealand bred and tested
- Yellow-fleshed bulb with medium maturity
- Disease tolerance to clubroot, dry rot and powdery mildew
- Excellent winter keeping qualities
- Pelleted seed available
Clutha Gold is the latest swede bred from the Forage Innovations plant breeding joint venture between Plant and Food Research and PGG Wrightson Seeds and has been developed to supersede Aparima Gold swede. Clutha Gold has a significant yield advantage over Aparima Gold while maintaining its disease tolerance to clubroot and dry rot. Clutha Gold also has an additional disease tolerance to the leaf disease, powdery mildew.
PGG Wrightson Seeds Sales Agronomist Brian Young (left) and Farmlands Technical Field Officer Mike Magennity (right) inspecting a crop of pelleted Clutha Gold swede.
