Barley

For malting or feed barley can play a major role in your rotation. With a range of different barleys that can be grown successfully across a wide variety of environments and programs AGF Seeds can provide you with the best quality seed.

Gretchen

Med – High

Pot. Malt

Mid-Late Mat

Key Features

High Yield Potential
Stong Disease Package
Balanced Malt with High Extract*
Mid-Late Maturity

AGF Seeds’s new conventional spring barley, Gretchen has shown 5 to 10% yield improvements over RGT Planet. Gretchen is a mid-late maturity barley with a similar maturity to RGT Planet and offers a sound disease package with strength in Scald resistance and significant improvement in Net Form Net Blotch vs RGT Planet.

* Gretchen has entered stage 0 of the malt accreditation process with the earliest accreditation possible coming early 2028. A proven malting variety in Europe we expect Gretchen to be a very attractive variety for Australian maltsters and breweries and have already seen success in closed loop systems.

EPR $4.00/t GST exclusive

AGT Bunyip IA

Medium

IMI
Tolerant

Aggressor Tolerant

AGT-Bunyip IA is the first variety in the world to offer dual herbicide tolerance, combining the ever-popular tolerance to imidazolinone herbicides, and the newer CoAXium® (Aggressor® hebicide) tolerance.

Both herbicide tolerances are effective on susceptible populations of common problem grass weeds including brome grass and barley grass.

This ‘stacked’ herbicide tolerance provides increased flexibility.

Tolerant to Imidazolinone herbicides and Aggressor herbicide
Similar plant type and maturity to Maximus CL
Very good physical grain package- low screenings and very high test weights
Entered into the malt evaluation program

EPR $5.50

AGT Reaper CL

Wide Adaptation

IMI
Tolerant

Very Quick

AGT-Reaper CL is a stand-out, setting a new yield benchmark . In its first year of NVT testing (2025) it made an immediate impact, winning 26% of all trials across Australia and drawing strong interest from growers and agronomists alike.

AGT-Reaper CL is related to the ‘Hindmarsh’ family of barley varieties, a family famous for very wide adaptation, very high and stable yields, and a shorter, compact plant type.

AGT-Reaper CL has a disease resistance package that compares well with most other varieties on the market. AGT-Reaper CL has been entered into the Grains Australia malt accreditation program and is currently deliverable as Barley/Feed.

EPR $4.55

Maximus CL

Med

IMI
Tolerant

Malt

NOW MALT ACCREDITED Maximus is a high yielding, quick-mid Maturing CL barley.

Represents an overall improvement compared to Spartacus CL for disease resistance
Good net form net blotch resistance
Good scald resistance
Improved spot form net blotch resistance
Strong lodging tolerance and a low-medium head loss risk
Excellent grain plumpness (larger than Spartacus CL) and hectolitre weight

EPR $4.25.

Neo CL

Med-High

IMI Tolerant

Mid Spring

Exceptionally high yielding, InterGrain data indicates a 10% yield improvement over RGT Planet
Mid-Spring maturity, imidazolinone (IMI) tolerant
Outstanding disease resistance package including excellent resistance to cereal cyst nematode, powdery mildew and the spot form of net blotch, and useful resistance to the net form of net blotch and leaf scald.
Ideally suited to medium-high rainfall environments
Neo has a semi-prostrate early growth habit and a medium plant height
Good head retention and good tolerance to lodging and head loss
Good grain quality attributes including high levels of grain plumpness, substantially superior to RGT Planet.
Neo has been accepted into Grain’s Australia malting accreditation program with the earliest potential final accreditation in March 2025.
EPR $4.25 GST exclusive

Newton

Dual Purpose

Winter Barley

Slow

Dual purpose variety with slow early development enabling early sowing for grazing, a long growing season, then harvest maturity equivalent to other long season cereals.

Highly competitive plant type with high total biomass production and feed quality grain.

Very high tillering ability with particularly prostrate early growth.

EPR $3.50

Ember

High

Feed

Slow Mat

Slow maturing spring feed barley with excellent yield potential, well suited to high rainfall zones.
It is 7-10 days slower to mature than Neo CL and RGT Planet and suited for early sowing opportunities and to help manage frost risk.
In April sown data, EMBER provides a yield advantage over RGT Planet and similar yield potential to Neo CL. In May sown data, EMBER has a yield advantage over RGT Planet, however is significantly lower than Neo CL. A longer growing season should favour its yield performance in early sown scenarios.
Useful disease resistance
Prostrate plant type, a medium plant height and moderate tolerance to lodging and head loss.

EPR $3.75