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SAMPLING THE DELIGHTS OF OKTOBERFEST AFTER HARVEST CHALLENGE

CONSISTENCY IS THE KEYWORD – VARIETY CHOICE FOR THE 2009 SEASON

GOOD YIELDS FOR COMBINING PEAS THIS HARVEST AS GROWERS CROPS AND BREEDERS TRIALS ARE HARVESTED

Nickerson-Advanta Ltd supports the Fairplay farm saved seed initiative which seeks to establish a level playing field on which all farmers contribute fairly to the cost of breeding new varieties irrespectively, whether they use farm saved or certified seed.
For more information, click link below Fair Play

Combining Peas

The Nickerson pea involvement is very wide ranging from breeding green peas for human consumption to varieties for animal feed purposes. The Limagrain Group has three pea breeding sites, Norfolk in the UK, Chartres in France and Holland. Nickerson represent a number of European pea breeders as marketing agents.

The UK pea breeding programme is led by Dr Keith Fox.The team holds an impressive list of pea varieties to their name which are cultivated not just in all major European pea growing areas but also in New Zealand and North America.

For further information on the Recommended List please click here:

www.pgro.org

www.niab.com

For information on the general marketability of peas please click here:

www.bepa.co.uk

 

Tonnes Certified - Harvest 2006
Variety NameTonnes% Total Tonnage
Nitouche131621.7%
Zero466711.0%
Cooper99716.4%
Kahuna4016.6%
Kaubuki4008.0%
Bilbo3205.3%
Prophet2224.5%
Samson1964.2%
Princess2063.4%
Rocket611.0%
Scuba601.0%
Hawaii250.4%
Paris260.5%
 

 

Source: NIAB Seed Stats August 2007

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