This cultivar is known for its excellent yield stability amid all yield potentials. It boasts one of the highest long-term average yields in the ARC trials, and was the overall winner in the 2020 Grow for Gold National Yield Competition, and holds the competition record of 4,44 ton/ha.
AGSUN 8251 possesses the stay-green trait which significantly increases the cultivar’s resistance to lodging diseases. In respect of long-term stability and disease resistance, this cultivar is simply in a class of its own. AGSUN 8251 is recommended as part of the farmer’s main planting.
Technology |
Conventional |
Maturity |
Medium-Long |
Relative number of days to 50% flower |
65-70 |
Relative number of days to physiological maturity |
115-120 |
Relative number of days to harvest |
140-145 |
Oil content |
38-42% |
Hectolitre mass |
10 |
Plant height |
7 |
Head inclination |
8 |
Standability |
10 |
Uniformity |
9 |
General disease resistance |
9 |
Alternaria |
*Good |
White rust (Albugo) |
*Very Good |
VIEW 10 AS OUTSTANDING AND 1 AS POOR