Apart from Angas, Cascades represents a significant improvement on the very susceptible status of the Aroona derivatives. Cascades has a quality advantage over Angas. Overall, Cascades has valuable moderate resistance to yellow spot and septoria nodorum blotch, useful in the northern wheatbelt of Western Australia. It combines resistance to both septorias that is useful in the south and contributes to its good yields there. It has an adequate level of resistance to stem rust for Western Australia and is the least susceptible Aroona derivative to stripe rust apart from Angas, but is susceptible to leaf rust.
Cascades has resistance to bunt and intermediate resistance to flag smut.
It is of better quality than all of these cultivars. Cascades outyields the Australian Hard cultivars Gutha, Schomburgk, Wilgoyne, and Janz. It has its best yields in the southern, high and medium rainfall areas especially in recommendation cell M5. When septoria diseases and yellow spot are limiting, Cascades' resistance provides a yield benefit over all of the above cultivars. Cascades is well adapted to a range of sowing times compared with cultivars such as Spear, but is outyielded by Wilgoyne and Amery with later sowings.