Es Alegria is a high yielding conventional variety with consistent performance across a wide range of

sites. It is the earliest variety to harvest and in the barn before other varieties have even started being

harvested. This allows time to prepare good stale seedbeds to control resistant blackgrass and bromes,

optimises the drilling of following crops and allows a spread of harvest dates for large growers.

With a good disease resistance profile, excellent autumn and spring vigour and an early harvest date

Alegria is a firm favourite on farm.

Es Alegria Breeder: Euralis

Earliest variety to harvest Superb resistance to Verticilium

Excellent autumn vigour High Oil Content

Multi-gene Resistance to Phoma Good Light Leaf Spot resistance

Excellent Spring vigour ahead of many hybrids

Trinity

2 WEEKS LATER

TO HARVEST

Most of the ADHB Recommended varieties have a maturity score of 5 or 6 and are 2 weeks later to

mature than Alegria, creating a potential clash with wheat harvest and putting pressure on the

drilling of following crops.

Alegria Alienor

Gross Output 103.0%

Oil Content 45.3%

Height 147 cm

Resistance to lodging* 9

Stem Stiffness* 8

Earliness of flowering* 8.0

Earliness of maturity* 7.2

Resistance to Light Leaf Spot* 5.4

Resistance to Phoma Stem Canker* 7.4

Autumn Vigour Excellent

* Scale of 1-9 where 9 is the top rating

High yielding conventional variety

Es Alegria Breeder: Euralis

Work by Claas has shown that combines can cut 1.25ha/hour in

standing crops compared to 0.75ha/hour in lodged crops.

Quality is often reduced in lodged crops due to uneven dry down

of seed, sprouting and seed loss through shedding.

LOW BIOMASS = HIGHER WORK RATES

Euralis breeder trials

Robust disease resistance

Mean Hampshire Suffolk Norfolk Lincs N. Lincs Notts

Es Alegria

Yield (t/ha) 5.1 4.9 5.3 5.8 5.5 3.7 5.0

Es Alegria % 106 104 107 111 108 107 102

Es Alegria performance under Verticillium Wilt conditions. 2014

Stowmarket, Suffolk

Vert wilt % Yield

Es Alegria 15% 5.1t/ha

Range 15-70% 4.5-5.6

Es Alegria lowest level of wilt

Growers spray at 10% autumn

phoma leaf spotting.

Yield loss of 0.5-1t/ha is common.

Es Alegria has multigene resistance to all known races of

Phoma/Stem Canker. In addition Alegria has the advantage of rapid

early plant growth which extends the distance the fungus has to grow

through the plant to infect the stem base, reducing disease impact.

Phoma stem canker rating

Es Alegria = 7.3

+ Multi-gene benefit

Trials conducted by

AICC in Verticillium wilt

infected fields have

proven Alegria to have

good resistance and is

able to maintain high

yields in the presence of

the disease.