{"id":1583,"date":"2021-10-05T16:08:44","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T16:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/104.238.170.140\/seedcogroup\/zm\/fieldcrops\/?p=1583"},"modified":"2023-01-25T10:55:47","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T10:55:47","slug":"choose-your-wheat-variety-wisely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seedcogroup.com\/zm\/fieldcrops\/choose-your-wheat-variety-wisely\/","title":{"rendered":"Choose your wheat variety wisely!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As we head towards the summer maize harvest and winter wheat planting, farmers are being faced with<br>choices on the best varieties to plant. One does not have to look far \u2013 Seed Co Zambia has been the<br>market leader in this regard for a long time, with many years of experience in the wheat breeding<br>business. And the Zambian bred variety, SC Shungu, has proven itself in the past few years to be the<br>variety of choice in the wheat sector. There are a number of reasons, among them, high yields and good<br>disease tolerance, which make it stand out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SC Shungu is a medium maturity variety, with many excellent characteristics. The plant vigorously<br>grows tillers and should be treated with a growth regulator at first node emergence to avoid lodging.<br>The variety is not as lush as the old faithful Nduna, but do not be fooled, it still requires similar<br>management practices for even better results in most cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"\/zm\/fieldcrops\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/SeedCo_PA-ZM_50_2_V1-1-SC-Shungu.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:43px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we head towards the summer maize harvest and winter wheat planting, farmers are being faced withchoices on the best [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-wheat"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seedcogroup.com\/zm\/fieldcrops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seedcogroup.com\/zm\/fieldcrops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seedcogroup.com\/zm\/fieldcrops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seedcogroup.com\/zm\/fieldcrops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seedcogroup.com\/zm\/fieldcrops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1583"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/seedcogroup.com\/zm\/fieldcrops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2751,"href":"https:\/\/seedcogroup.com\/zm\/fieldcrops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583\/revisions\/2751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seedcogroup.com\/zm\/fieldcrops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seedcogroup.com\/zm\/fieldcrops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seedcogroup.com\/zm\/fieldcrops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seedcogroup.com\/zm\/fieldcrops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}