ВНІС·Oilseeds
Khalk
Khalk — an early-maturing conventional single-cross winter rapeseed hybrid from VNIS with a 295–300-day growing season; the maker states high winter hardiness and resistance to late frosts at critical stages.
Main advantages
- Slow spring regrowth — late-frost resistance
- Growing season 295–300 days — early-maturing hybrid
- Winter hardiness 9/9 — maker's score
- Pod shatter 8/9 — maker's score
- Seeding rate 350–500 thousand seeds/ha — maker's data
Overview
About this product
Khalk is an early-maturing conventional single-cross winter rapeseed hybrid. It forms a compact rosette and regrows slowly in spring, which, per the maker, gives it resistance to late frosts at critical stages.
Plant height is 180 cm, thousand-seed weight 4.7–5.6 g, erucic acid content 0–0.2%. Seeding rate is 350–500 thousand seeds/ha.
The maker scores winter hardiness, drought tolerance, and resistance to lodging, downy mildew, alternaria and bacteriosis at 9 of 9, and resistance to pod shatter at 8 of 9.
Specifications
Agronomic profile
| Brand | ВНІС |
|---|---|
| Type | single-cross, extensive type; winter |
| Maturity | Early |
| Growing period | 295–300 days |
| Herbicide | Classic |
| Winter hardiness | 9/9 (maker's score) |
| Drought tolerance | 9/9 (maker's score) |
| Oil content | 48.3%; in the technical data sheet 48.4% |
| Lodging resistance | 9/9 (maker's score) |
| Shatter resistance | 8/9 (maker's score) |
| Early vigour | compact rosette, slow spring regrowth |
| Plant height | 180 cm |
| Disease resistance | phoma 8/9; damping-off 8/9; downy mildew 9/9; white rot (sclerotinia) 8/9; alternaria 9/9; bacteriosis 9/9 (maker's score) |
| Seeding rate | 350–500 thousand seeds/ha |
| Thousand-seed weight | 4.7–5.6 g |
| Other facts | Erucic acid content: 0–0.2% |
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Questions & answers
What farmers ask most
- Optimal sowing depends on crop, zone, and seasonal weather. Winter wheat in the Forest-Steppe: Sep 10–25. Corn: when soil is stable at +10°C at 10 cm depth. See the 12-month sowing calendar on the adam.ua blog.
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