New varieties on offer at demonstration plots

RAGT will be profiling winter wheats Warrior, Hereward and Battalion as well as its variety pipeline and new candidate wheat distilling variety, Tuxedo.

“Like Warrior, Tuxedo has a high septoria tritici resistance rating, together with both high and broad yellow rust resistance,” says RAGT Seeds agronomist, Dr Cathy Hooper.

RAGT plots will also include the spring barley varieties Shire, Moonshine and Cromwell.

KWS UK will be profiling its highest-yielding Group 2 breadmaker, KWS Sterling. Master baker John Hayes will be baking bread from the new variety, which is now available as part of a new buy-back initiative with miller ADM and Gleadells.

Cereals will also be the first opportunity to see pipeline wheats KWS Santiago and KWS Podium, the only milling wheat up for recommendation this year.

Senova’s Just Oats stand will be focusing on the new oat Link project Quoats (www.quoats.org) which is focused on research for the ruminant sector, where oats have been shown to have a marked effect in reducing methane.

Senova will be highlighting group 4 wheat JB Diego, the Group 3 OWBM-resistant wheat, Scout and the Group 4 soft wheat Beluga, rated for its high alcohol yields. The new OSR variety Fashion will also be profiled.

For barley growers, KWS Cassia, which is from the same breeding programme as Saffron, will also be growing on site, as will the new top-performing sugar beet variety, Rosalinda KWS.

Pest advice

Market-leading beet cyst nematode-resistant variety, Annouschka KWS, will also be demonstrated, and experts will be on hand to advise on how best to deal with the pest.

Monsanto will be launching two new oilseed rape varieties at Cereals. The first, DK ExPower, is already showing its strength in UK National List testing, says the company.

Extensive trials across the UK, Germany, Denmark and Sweden have demonstrated yield advantages over its stable-mate, Excalibur, while delivering autumn vigour and manageable height.

Alongside the mainstream variety comes DK Sequoia, the first low biomass hybrid. Two years of official testing puts the variety’s gross output at around the Excalibur level.

Nickerson will have 52 variety demonstration plots, including 14 new varieties never previously seen at Cereals. The company says it will also be profiling the investment it is making into plant breeding and how this is contributing to the progress of UK agriculture.

Syngenta Seeds will be launching winter malting barley varieties Winsome and Purdey, plus the new nabim Group 2 winter wheat variety, Kingdom.

Pioneer will be profiling its semi-dwarf Maximus rapeseed hybrids, which they say “offer unique and simplified crop management advantages from planting to harvest.”

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