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