Choosing a variety to grow
How to make the best Choice
How do you choose
Need Information Look at Winter wheat HGCA Recommended List
HGCA List
Market Options and Grain Quality: breadmaking, biscuit flour, distilling performance, export potential; grain quality characters. NABIM Classification.
How it grows in the field: Yield, Agronomic characters, disease resistance
Suplementary data: How to place the variety on the farm.
Full and Provisional Recommendation
Regional differences
NABIM Classification
Group 1: Best breadmakers -largest Premiums.
Group 2: Limited breadmaking potential - smaller premiums
Group 3: Biscuit flour and distilling - small premium
Group 4: Feed wheats – no premium.
Grain Quality
Hagberg Falling Number Low High
End Use quality
Bread Wheat beer
More end uses
Ciabattas Spanish bread
Wheat for fuel - ethanol
Harvesting Trials
Yield assessment + quality sampling
Field Characters: Disease
Septoria tritici Yellow rust
Brown Rust Fusarium Ear blight
Standing power
Lodging
Using RL to sort out Drilling sequence and field placement.
First and second wheats Light and heavy land, Place in the sowing sequence
Early and late sown trials performanceSpeed of development to first
node.
Choosing exercise
First Wheat on good land, I want a barn filler. What should I grow?
I’m farming near the Wash (a yellow rust hot spot) which varieties should I avoid?
I’m looking to grow for a bread premium, the field is following peas and will be ready to sow in early September. What should I grow?
Cont:
I am growing on very fertile soils and lodging can be a problem, which varieties should I avoid?
Other Crops: What do we need to know?
Barley Oilseed rape Sugar Beet Maize Grass Clover
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