Barley
Due to our strong relationships with UK and European plant breeders, we have access to leading established barley varieties but also new variety releases which can be issued on semi-exclusive, or even exclusive arrangements.
Cope Seeds picks and trials the best varieties and brings them to market, offering a carefully selected range of winter, spring and naked oats, with buy-back contracts available for particular varieties.
Forging robust markets for grain is key to our mission and we supply an increasing number of growing end-markets. Having built up strong relationships with leading end-users, we have increased our customer base and the quantity of grain sold year on year.
Spring Barley
Evelina Spring Barley
This versatile and low input variety of spring barley offers high untreated and treated grain yields, as well as excellent, high yielding straw for bedding or forage.
Laureate
Laureate spring barley is another quality malting type suitable for both brewing and distilling. It’s a shorter, later-maturing variety and the highest yielding variety suitable for both market, with untreated yields of 97% and good resistance scores to all the major diseases.
LG Diablo
LG Diablo spring barley is the most exciting spring barley to hit the Recommended List since Laureate and sits towards at the top of the table for yield. LG Diablo also sits with the highest untreated yield of any variety at 97%. LG Diablo has a medium straw and good all round disease package, reflecting its high untreated yields. It has full approval for malt distilling and is a good option for an organic grower.
RGT Planet
NEW RGT Planet Spring Barley sits on the AHDB Recommended List as one of the highest yielding spring barleys with approval for brewing. A fairly short variety with good resistance to brackling and lodging. RGT Planet has exceptional resistance to Mildew and Ramularia but does not show such good resistance to yellow or brown rust. A variety which should be considered as a feed as well as malting variety due to its high yields.
Skyway
Skyway- is one of the highest yielding varieties on the recommended list. It has provisional MBC approval. It has a good disease package, which includes a 9 for Mildew. It is medium in high, brackling resistance and medium to early maturity
Westminster
A long-standing favourite in the organic sector with long, stiff straw and excellent all-round disease resistance, combined with very high specific weight. Accepted by some end users as a malting barley, and a good excellent choice as a feed barley also. Malting Buy Backs available.
Winter Barley
Bazooka
Fully recommended, Bazooka is an established and popular hybrid barley with high yields, replacing its sister variety Volume.
It’s disease profile is better than Volume, especially it’s yellow rust (9) and Rhynchosporium (6) resistance.
Craft
Craft winter barley is a high yielding winter barley with full malting approval. Craft is of moderate height with a strong 8 for lodging. A variety with good all round disease resistance scores and performs particularly well on light land.
Electrum
A real step forward, Electrum winter barley was added to the AHDB Recommended List with provisional approval for malting. Superb grain quality with low screenings and high specific weight. Performs better on heavier soils when compared to Craft. Extremely early to mature.
Kingsbarn
Kingsbarn is the new all-rounder which boasts good yield potential with improved specific weight 69.8 kg/hl. Kingsbarn is high yielding with superb grain quality. It performs best in the east and the west, as it offers good resistance to wet weather diseases and has high straw yields. Kingsbarn’s spring vigour boosts its ability to control blackgrass and the high yields make it the perfect alternative to 2nd wheat in the east.
LG Caravelle
LG Caravelle is the highest yielding 2-row winter barley on the AHDB Recommended List 24/25. The variety has very high yield potential across all regions of the UK along with high untreated yield. It has a robust disease resistance package and a UK yield comparable with hybrid varieties and has a very high specific weight and good screenings.
Valerie
Valerie is a high yielding two-row feed barley that performs well in both treated and untreated trials. This can be put down to the combination of robust disease (9 for brown rust) and lodging resistance (including BaYMV). Valerie also has superb grain quality with a specific weight of 70.2 making it a good choice for all regions.
