IRINA
- Our new addition to the list for 2016
- Excellent variety, with very good characteristics.
- Excellent disease profile.
SANETTE
- Cleanest variety on offer with excellent disease profile.
- Nitrogen usage needs to be carefully planned along with possible growth reg usage.
- Later ripening so can be very beneficial for spreading workload where there is large acreage.
- Variety of choice where grower is in a low input system.
- Joint second highest yielder on recommended list.
PROPINO
- Very good variety, proving very popular this year.
- Provides best quality grain for the mill.
- However, tends to get dirty and we found it had a lot of early Rhyncosporium and Net Blotch last year.
MICKLE
- Probably the most popular variety.
- Very high yielder in 2015 and it will be the most sought after variety in 2016.
- Very short variety, similar to snakebite, a variety we had a number of years ago.
- Best suited to very rich land where lodging will be an issue.
- Can use very high nitrogen rates and therefore can be really driven.
- At present, good disease profile, but may be a variety prone to disease in the future.