KWS Dawsum

The above video was recorded on July 4, 2023 and the information below was updated on May 19, 2025.

BREEDER: KWS UK Ltd
PEDIGREE: KWS Kerrin x Costello
STATUS: AHDB Recommended List variety for UK (since 2022)

MARKET OPTIONS: Hard Group 4, Feed

CERTIFIED SEED SALES 2024 %: England & Wales: 13.1 Scotland: 13.2.
PROVISIONAL SEED AREA 2025 %: England & Wales: 7.9. Scotland: 5.6.

AHDB RL 2025 TREATED YIELD (UK): 103
AHDB RL 2025 TREATED YIELD (NORTH REGION): 106
AHDB RL 2025 UNTREATED YIELD (UK): 89

POSITIVES

• Very high untreated (89%) and Northern yield (106%)
• Excellent as both a first and second wheat and on both heavy and especially lighter land
• Very good combined disease resistance
• Well suited to early drilling
• Superb grain quality (inherited from Costello parentage), with very high Hagberg (310) & specific weight (79.9kg/hl)

NEGATIVES

• Average resistance to Septoria tritici compared to some other hard wheats (6.3)
• Susceptible to orange wheat blossom midge
• On farm performance has possibly not lived up to expectations