Wheat

A leading plant breeder is encouraging growers to take up the opportunity of contributing to the future development of the Recommended Lists, including how they are designed.

With growers considering their variety options for the coming spring, Wynnstay’s combinable seed product specialist, Danny Richardson gives an overview of his top picks.

Wheat is successfully being produced in an indoor vertical farm using no soil or pesticides and less water when compared with conventional methods.

Farmers struggling to mill over-dry grain for livestock feed this winter now have access to a treatment which is more typically used by the feed processing industry.

Red Tractor, the UK’s biggest farm and food assurance scheme, has said a ‘typo’ led to accusations that it misled consumers over the traceability of foodstuffs

Finding a variety which combines good yields with impressive disease resistance credentials has long been a difficult challenge for wheat growers. But independent trials are showing RGT Saki is offering growers just that.

RAGT Seeds’ RGT Wolverine winter wheat offers BYDV resistance and competitive yields, according to Frontier trials.

RAGT is introducing the first European winter wheat variety with a high level of resistance to barley yellow dwarf virus.

New varieties of winter wheat offering greater disease resistance may provide a solution to a lack of new chemistry or issues around applying treatment at the right time, given increasingly wet weather such as that experienced this year.