BREEDER: Elsoms Wheat Ltd
PEDIGREE: Cassius x Viscount
STATUS: AHDB Recommended List variety for UK (since 2018)
CERTIFIED SEED SALES 2019 %: England & Wales: 2.3. Scotland: 3.9.
PROVISIONAL SEED AREA 2020 %: England & Wales: 1.8. Scotland: 4.1.
AHDB RL 2020 TREATED YIELD (UK): 100
AHDB RL 2020 TREATED YIELD (NORTH REGION): 100
AHDB RL 2020 UNTREATED YIELD (UK): 81
MARKET OPTIONS: UK Biscuit, Export, Distilling (good), Feed, Group 3 Soft.
POSITIVES
• Only Group 3 variety rated ‘good’ for distilling.
• Solid all-round disease resistance, particularly to yellow rust.
• Stiff strawed.
NEGATIVES
• Average yield.
• Hagberg on the low side for a biscuit wheat.
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