The above video was recorded on June 30, 2021 and the information below was updated on July 6, 2021.
BREEDER: Senova Ltd
PEDIGREE: W151 x Timaru
STATUS: AHDB Recommended List variety for UK (since 2015)
CERTIFIED SEED SALES 2020 %: England & Wales: 3.6. Scotland: 0.4.
PROVISIONAL SEED AREA 2021 %: England & Wales: 3.3. Scotland: 0.0.
AHDB RL 2021 TREATED YIELD (UK): 99
AHDB RL 2021 TREATED YIELD (NORTH REGION): 99
AHDB RL 2021 UNTREATED YIELD (UK): 80
MARKET OPTIONS: Hard Group 4, Feed
POSITIVES
- Robust and reliable variety; a ‘safe pair of hands’.
- Performs best on heavier soils.
- Short, stiff straw.
- Excellent yellow rust and mildew resistance, above average on Septoria tritici.
- Superb grain quality, very high Hagberg and highest specific weight of all varieties on the RL.
- Good sprouting resistance.
NEGATIVES
- Low yielding – below other hard feed wheats.
- Poor as a second wheat and doesn’t perform on light land.
- Poor brown rust resistance and not orange wheat blossom midge resistant.
- Slightly later to mature.
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