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Plant breeder challenges concept of ‘barn-filler’ wheats
Glass remains ‘half-full’ for Scottish malting barley grower
High yielding group 2 variety leading the way for milling wheats
Limagrain UK 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.
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Spring Barley
Nickerson are leading breeders of spring barley. Although based in the UK, the programme has a very European flavour and is designed to enable selection and development of varieties for the key European markets. These markets include UK, Denmark, France, Germany, Sweden and Spain.
The barley breeding team is led by Mark Glew. The team has an excellent track record of producing successful spring barley varieties for many different markets, for instance Decanter (UK), Troon (UK and Denmark) and Henley (France).
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Source: NIAB Seedstats 5 Jan 2009 - Provisional Weights of Seed Certified from Harvest 2008 (England & Wales). Except * data is from NIAB Seedstats Final Weights of Seed Certified from Harvest 2007.
