The new AHDB Recommended Lists (RL) for cereals and oilseeds 2024/25, published this week, see fewer new varieties added than those removed as outclassed, leading to a shorter list for most major crops. The...
The AHDB Recommended List of cereal and oilseed varieties for the 2022/23 season sees 35 new varieties added and 23 delisted. Winter wheat There are two new UK Flour Millers (UKFM – formerly nabim) Group 1 varieties – both spring...
Independent UK plant breeder Elsoms Seeds marked its 175th anniversary at Cereals 2019. The company was founded in 1844 as a rope and twine making business in Spalding, Lincolnshire, adding seed sales 11 years later and opening its first trials site in 1914. While...
The AHDB Recommended Lists (RLs) for cereals and oilseeds 2018/19 feature 22 new varieties – five each for winter wheat, winter barley and winter oilseed rape; three spring barleys and spring oat varieties and a single winter oat. The lists see the removal of 27...