Tillage: Time to think about new seed varieties for 2023-2024

It’s that point of yr when cereal growers will begin to think about what new seed varieties can be found for the season forward.

In some components of the nation, the beginning of the winter barley harvest is simply 4 weeks away. And as quickly as that is accomplished, it’s onwards and upwards, the place oilseed rape is anxious.

Winter wheat, nevertheless, stays a really worthwhile and sustainable crop possibility for tillage farmers within the UK and Eire.  

Limagrain’s latest feed wheat addition to the 2023-2024 Agriculture and Horticulture Improvement Board (AHDB) Really helpful Listing is LG Redwald.

It involves market with a UK-treated yield determine of 107%.

Redwald has proven this excessive yield consistency throughout areas and really testing seasons of climate, in response to AHDB.

Its excessive untreated yield of 92% displays its superb illness resistance, particularly for Septoria tritici. Redwald is a excessive tillering, large biomass plant kind, so think about a decrease seed charge.

Limagrain trials over a number of seasons present that lowering the seed charge by 20% had no impact on total yield efficiency, with higher lodging resistance.

Redwald is a taller selection (94cm) with a giant biomass, so a properly focused, strong, break up plant development regulator (PGR) programme is beneficial.

Drilling new seed varieties

Growers shouldn’t drill the brand new selection too early, because it doesn’t have the traits related for the early drilling scenario.

It fits the usual planting window of mid-October onwards and may be drilled to the tip of January.

Redwald advantages from being grown on water retentive soil sorts, not lighter soil sorts related to drought conditions.

Growers ought to cut back seed charges and implement PGR programme for heavier/fertile soils.

The brand new selection performs properly as a primary or second wheat. Sitting as a really excessive yielding selection in a second wheat scenario, it’s a worthwhile selection to enhance gross margins on this situation.

Redwald has good tolerance to take-all, however a low score for eyespot. It ought to be managed accordingly.

Whereas the range has good illness resistance for Septoria tritici, and each rusts, Limagrain advises that each one crops ought to be monitored and handled accordingly.

Whereas trials present {that a} strong on-farm fungicide technique ought to be carried out, a T0 spray will not be required, relying on illness stress.

Nonetheless, a sturdy T3 fungicide is essential for cover towards fusarium, and as it’s a later maturing selection.

There are advantages from sustaining inexperienced leaf cover to maximise grain fill.