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Wheat

Our customers work with us because we supply a wide range of carefully selected combinable crop species and varieties which have been bred by world-leading plant scientists and extensively field-tested. We sell a wide variety of wheat, barley, oats, beans and triticale including spring beans, spring barley and spring wheat.

We only multiply seed varieties with careful consideration for regional suitability, rotation, market outlets and suitability to regenerative farming practices, meaning our customers have the most advanced, vigorous and marketable product available.

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Due to our strong relationships with UK and European plant breeders, we have access to leading established varieties but also new variety releases which can be issued on semi-exclusive, or even exclusive arrangements.

To date, we have successfully commercialised a number of varieties including Merlin, Atego, Rozmar and Vok Spring Oats, Sokrates, Magister and Nelson Winter Wheat, Amaretto Spring Wheat, Armada & Evelina Spring Barley and Securo and Somtri Triticale and we are continually trialling new material each year in both AHDB Recommended List and independent trials.

Group 1 Wheats

LG Crusoe wheat

Crusoe

Conventional

Organic

Crusoe is a well-established group 1 variety on the recommended list, it boasts the highest protein content of any other variety currently on the list. The good lodging resistance and all-around disease package against Septoria tritici, mildew, and yellow rust make this a competitive variety for the
premium milling sector.

Ladybird on an ear of wheat

Edelmann

Conventional

Organic

Edelmann is bred by expert Austrian plant breeder Edelhoff, the breeder of Evelina, Ehogold, Elego and Elias. Delivering quality and yield, it has tall straw and good disease resistance. We have buy-back contracts available for the variety which offers an attractive premium over feed wheats.

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Ehogold

Conventional

Organic

Ehogold winter wheat is an organically bred variety from Austria, capable of achieving the best milling quality available. This variety is around 20% lower yielding when compared to UK conventionally bred material but the grain quality achieved with this variety is superb. Extremely tall and with the appearance of a heritage wheat, it’s extremely early to mature. Milling contracts are available which offer a premium over other varieties.

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KWS Zyatt

Conventional

Organic

KWS Zyatt winter wheat is an exciting, new group 1 variety with high untreated yields making it a true dual variety, suited to the milling and feed market. It performs well in the second wheat slot and performs well in all regions of the UK, on all types of soil. However it does prefer heavier land. It is a short, stiff variety which is early to mature.

KWS Zyatt performed well in our own organic trials and came 2nd behind Dunston in terms of yield, mirroring that of the Recommended List untreated trials.

Nelson wheat banner web

Conventional

Organic

Nelson is a dual purpose variety suitable for bread making as well as a feed variety. It is a German E-Quality Milling variety (the best rating available) which combined with superb grain quality and extremely high specific weights means that millers are readily accepting the variety.

Tall, winter hardy and with a stiff straw Nelson is a low input variety which is highly suited to Organic farming.

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Skyfall

Conventional

Skyfall wheat is a group 1 bread making variety that is currently the UK’s number one. This is down to its consistent performance for both farmer and miller. The winter wheat also has strong fusarium and OWBM resistance and a flexible drilling window. Skyfall wheat is a short stiff-strawed variety and relatively early to mature.

Group 2 Wheats

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KWS Extase

Conventional

Organic

KWS Extase is an exciting new group 2 bread making variety with an excellent combination of high yields, quality potential and disease resistance. With a hagberg and specific weight of 297 and 78.4 respectively, combined with a yellow rust rating of 9 and brown rust rating of 7 plus an 8.1 rating for septoria tritici.

KWS Palladium wheat

KWS Palladium

Conventional

Organic

KWS Palladium is an exciting early maturing, brand-new group 2 wheat designed for the UK bread markets”. This variety has shown an exceptional untreated yield and scores very highly against Septoria, Mildew, Yellow Rust, and eyespot”. Palladium is great for earlier drilling due to the early maturing characteristics.

LG Crusoe wheat

Mayflower

Conventional

Organic

Mayflower Winter Wheat is a group 2 variety with a high untreated yield and exceptional Septoria Tritici resistance score of 8.4, the highest on the list. For those growers looking for a low input variety, should certainly look at Mayflower as either a group 2 or feed option.

Group 3 Wheats

Field of LG Astronomer wheat

LG Astronomer

Conventional

LG Astronomer is a quality soft milling wheat, it is high yielding, has good disease resistance, and has a high specific weight. As a biscuit variety, it will also meet the requirement for distilling.

Field of KWS Brium

KWS Brium

Conventional

KWS Brium is a group 3 variety for UK flour, biscuit, and distilling. It currently sits at the top of the group 3’s on the recommended list. One of Brium key attributes is the ability to be flexible due to it being a later drilled and later maturing variety. It also has excellent yellow rust scores and is OWBM resistant.

Soft Group 4 Wheats

LG Skyscraper photo Rob King

LG Skyscraper

Conventional

Organic

LG Skyscraper is a high yielding soft group 4 winter wheat. It has a robust resistance profile for OWBM, Septoria tritici, and Yellow Rust.  This variety is taller strawed and can offer distilling

Bamford

Bamford

Conventional

Organic

LG Crusoe wheat

RAGT Bairstow

Conventional

Organic

RGT Bairstow is new on the recommended list this year. The variety is strong against Septoria and OWBM. It has been marked down as positive for distilling. It would make a great choice for second wheat.

Hard Group 4 Wheats

LG Crusoe wheat

LG Typhoon

Conventional

Organic

LG Typhoon is a hard feed wheat offering a good yield potential around a very secure agronomic package. The variety offers security and adaptability regarding drilling date and rotation, performing well in both the earlier drilling situation and as a second wheat.

It has an excellent disease resistance profile offering high scores for resistance to yellow rust and septoria tritici in combination with OWBM resistance

Field of wheat

Gleam

Conventional

Gleam is a very high yielding hard group 4 feed wheat; it has excellent overall disease profile with outstanding untreated yields as well as OWBM resistance. It produces strong straws and this is a product of its excellent resistance to lodging. Gleam is early to mature with robust HFN and offers farmers flexibility in terms of drilling requirements.

DSV Oxford

Oxford

Conventional

Field of Syngenta Graham wheat

Graham

Conventional

Organic

Graham winter wheat, bred by Syngenta has proven popular both organically and conventionally for its disease resistance, especially to Septoria. It is a medium height variety with good resistance to lodging and early maturity. Graham winter wheat performs well as a 1st wheat and on heavy soils.

SY Insitor ears

SY Insitor

Conventional

SY Insitor is an exciting new feed variety that is high yielding (105%) with a good level of all round disease resistance. the variety grows to a height of 93 cm and has a reasonable resistance to lodging. There is some date to show that it preforms well when drilled late and that the variety prefers lighter land. OWBM resistant.

Champion DSV

Champion

Conventional

Organic

Champion is now the highest-yielding feed wheat (Group 4) (106.3%).

It is the top variety drilled on heavy soils and second on light soils, which shows its versatility and suitability to a wide range of sites. It has a medium-length straw, with very little lodging seen over five years of trials in the UK.

It boasts some of the best scores for yellow rust and Septoria on the RL and also offers growers orange wheat blossom midge resistance. With outstanding overall yield performance – Champion has proven itself to be a successful late-drilled variety with the highest scores on the list when planted in a late-drilled situation. The latest safe sowing date is mid-February.

Winter wheat

LG Beowolf

Conventional

Organic

Spring Wheats

Field of KWS Ladum

KWS Ladum

Conventional

Organic

KWS Ladum is the highest yielding group 1 spring wheat on the RL list. It consists of a good disease package, which includes an 8 for Mildew and a 7 for Septoria. It has a good specific weight of 78kg/hl.

Winter wheat

Everlong

Conventional

Organic

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Mulika

Organic

A consistent and reliable milling variety which delivers good proteins, hagbergs and specific weights. Very similar to Paragons milling capabilities. According to this year’s Recommended List, Mulika offers good resistance to Yellow Rust and Brown Rust. Mulika is also Orange Blossom Midge resistance.

KWS Harsum

KWS Harsum

Conventional