BREEDER: Limagrain UK
PEDIGREE: (Alchemy x Claire) x Shepherd
STATUS: AHDB Recommended List variety for UK (since 2013)
CERTIFIED SEED SALES 2019 %: England & Wales: 0.7. Scotland: 3.3.
PROVISIONAL SEED AREA 2020 %: England & Wales: 0.5. Scotland: 2.3.
AHDB RL 2020 TREATED YIELD (UK): 96
AHDB RL 2020 TREATED YIELD (NORTH REGION): 95
AHDB RL 2020 UNTREATED YIELD (UK): 77
MARKET OPTIONS: Distilling (good), Export, Feed, Group 4 Soft
POSITIVES
• Suitable for early drilling due to slow development habit.
• Good lodging resistance.
• Generally excellent all-round disease resistance, in particular to yellow rust, brown rust & eyespot.
• Rated ‘Good’ for distilling.
NEGATIVES
• Yield now well below competitor varieties.
• Below average untreated yield.
• Late to mature.
• One of the few soft wheats without OWBM resistance.
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