MANKATO
Maximise premiums with Mankato’s exceptional colour retention
- Strong disease package
- Highly consistent over all regions
- Exceptional colour retention to maximise premiums
Characteristics
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Mankato has come from KWS Momonts highly successful pulse breeding programme. It is medium height with exceptional straw strength and good standing to ensure a safe harvest. It is a very high yielding variety nationally over a range of soil types. Mankato has a strong disease package including resistance to pea wilt. It is the next step up from older competitor varieties. We have seen Mankato demonstrate fantastic colour retention compared to other large blue varieties, leading to higher premiums paid at the farm gate. In short Mankato ticks all the boxes for UK pea growers and end users alike.
| UK yield (% control) | 93 |
| Resistance to pea wilt | R |
| Downy mildew | 6 |
| Earliness of ripening | 4 |
| Shortness of straw | 81 |
| Standing ability at harvest | 7 |
| Thousand seed weight (g) | 255 |
| Protein content (%) | 21.9 |
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