New Varieties |
Bantam - a feed wheat with a very high yield potential, very good resistance to mildew and rusts, and good standing. Bantam has good grain quality and late primordial development of the ear making it potentially suitable for early sowing.
Cassius - a high yielding soft endospermed wheat (potential nabim Group 3) with excellent rust resistance and good standing. Cassius has performed well in preliminary quality tests producing flour well suited to biscuit making and comparable with the current standards. Click here for more detailed info.
Lear - a feed variety with a very high yield potential and a soft endosperm texture. Lear has very good resistance to the rusts and Septoria tritici as well as resistance to wheat orange blossom midge.
Panorama - a potential bread-making wheat with a very high yield potential, good lodging resistance and very good resistance to the meain foliar diseases, particularly yellow and brown rust. It has an excellent specific weight and a good Hagberg Falling Number. Click here for more detailed info.
Qplus - a potential nabim Group 2 variety with good standing and an excellent foliar disease resistance profile. Qplus has a hard endosperm, a good specific weight and Hagberg Falling Number and is unique among bread-making varieties in having resistance to wheat orange blossom midge.
Walpole - a bread-making variety (nabim Group 2 potential) performance in yield terms at a similar level to Einstein. Walpole has long straw but good standing as well as very good resistance to both yellow and brown rust and mildew. Physical grain quality is also good with a high Hagberg Falling Number and high specific weight.
Bantam, Cassius, Lear, Panorama, Qplus and Walpole are all Recommended List candidates in their first year of RL trials.
Orator - a potential nabim Group 3 variety with a similar yield to Claire. Orator has good lodging resistance and an excellent overall disease resistance profile (including a '7' for Septoria tritici). Grain quality is very good with a high specific weight and Hagberg Falling Number.
Orator has a slow speed of apical development in the spring and its suitablity for early September sowing is curently being evalauated.
