AHDB really useful listing winter barley trials outcomes various

The Agriculture and Horticulture Growth Board (AHDB) is reporting a collection of usually disappointing outcomes from its 2021/2022 Really useful Record (RL) winter barley trials.

The typical yield of the management varieties within the handled trials was 9.72t/ha, slightly below the five-year common of 9.81t/ha.

Nonetheless, the 2022 common masks huge variation: From 6.96t/ha to 12.31t/ha. This development mirrors the huge variations in yield which have additionally been reported in business crops.

Trials

Within the untreated trials, yields have held up effectively, with the common of the controls at 8.53t/ha, forward of the five-year common of 8.14t/ha. This consequence displays the dry yr, with usually low illness strain.

It has been yr for six-row hybrids – besides Bazooka. All outperformed their five-year averages in handled trials. Some two-row varieties additionally carried out very effectively within the untreated collection.  

Yields are represented as a share of the management varieties.

In 2022, the management varieties comprise two malting varieties, Craft and Electrum; the six-row hybrid selection SY Kingsbarn; the six-row standard selection Funky; and the two-row feed selection LG Mountain. The typical of the yields from these varieties is represented as 100%.

Within the handled trials, six-row hybrid SY Kingsbarn is the best yielding on 109%, with SY Kingston, SY Thunderbolt and newly really useful SY Canyon on 108%, forward of their five-year averages.

Belmont is on 107%, with Belfry on 105%. Within the six-row hybrids, solely Bazooka did not exceed its five-year common, which it equalled (104%).

Of the six-row standard varieties, newly really useful barley yellow dwarf virus (BYDV)-tolerant KWS Feeris in on 104% and Funky is 103% in handled trials. It is very important notice that RL trials are sprayed for aphids within the autumn to fight BYDV.

The perfect of the two-row feed varieties within the handled trials in 2022 are Bordeaux and the newly really useful selection Lightning (104%). Bolton is on 103%, adopted by LG Mountain and Surge (102%).

Yield main two-row selection on the RL, KWS Tardis, has had a disappointing yr at 100% and appears to have struggled in some northern trials.

Malting

Two-row malting varieties are judged extra on their high quality than outright yield. The typical yield of Electrum (96%) has held up, however Craft (91%) is under the five-year common.  

Within the untreated trials, newly really useful six-row hybrid SY Canyon is the clear chief on 114%, with six-row hybrid SY Thunderbolt and two-row selection Lightning additionally doing effectively on 110%, with the following highest yielding selection being Surge on 108%.

The five-year common values (2018–22) present a greater illustration of efficiency throughout seasons.

Within the handled trials, six-row hybrid yields are very related on this measure, with SY Thunderbolt, SY Kingsbarn, SY Kingston, and SY Canyon all on 106%. Belmont is on 105% adopted by Belfry and Bazooka on 104%.

Of the two-row feed varieties, KWS Tardis stays the best yielding within the handled trials, regardless of its disappointing efficiency in 2022 (103%) with newly really useful Lightning, Bolton and Bordeaux additionally on 103%.

Of the opposite varieties, six-row standard BYDV-tolerant selection, KWS Feeris, is on 103%, simply forward of Funky (102%). The malting varieties Electrum (96%) and Craft (94%) are, as anticipated, decrease yielding.

Within the untreated trials, newly really useful six-row hybrid SY Canyon is highest yielding at 110% of controls, forward of newly really useful two-row selection Lightning (108%) Surge and SY Thunderbolt (107%).