Cavalier
Cavalier is a conventional nontransgenic soybean variety developed and released by the North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station. Cavalier is expected to replace acreage of Jim and Traill, which also are NDSU releases.
Cavalier has good lodging resistance and matures a day later than Jim and three days earlier than Traill.
Averaged across 33 trials conducted in North Dakota from 2004 through 2007, Cavalier yielded 3 percent more than Jim and 2 percent more than Traill. Cavalier has a slightly lower protein content and slightly higher oil content than Jim. This soybean has a yellow hila, which is desirable for a conventional soybean variety, and is a 00.7 maturity cultivar.
Cavalier has moderate resistance to iron deficiency chlorosis and has resistance to Phytophthora root rot Race 6.
Cavalier is named after Cavalier County in northeastern North Dakota.
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The North Dakota Soybean Council provided some of the funding for the development of Cavalier.