| Cereals
Innovative plant genetics tackle production costs
Cutting edge genetics that have paved the way for new and exciting varieties offering step-changes in performance will
be on display at the Limagrain stand at this year’s Cereals event.
e know that today’s growers
are looking for varieties that are
not costly to grow, or that offer
this combined with the
opportunity to earn a premium,
and at this year’s Cereals event
we are in the exciting position to be able to
showcase a range of new varieties of winter
wheat and oilseed rape, as well as spring
barley’s,” says Les Daubney, marketing director
for arable seeds with Limagrain UK.
“Alongside these, there will be demonstration
plots of many of the more familiar and
established varieties from the Limagrain
breeding programme, such as Evolution,
Crusoe and Revelation that led the way in
offering higher consistent yields with better
disease resistance ratings, and continue to
hold a dominant market share based on this.”
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“LG Opera is under test by the IBD for
brewing and both the malt and grain
distilling categories”
LG Sundance and LG Motown are very high
yielding soft feed winter wheats, with initial
official testing suggesting that the varieties
meet the specifications for both the distilling
and soft uks export markets.
“We are particularly excited about LG
Motown, which has consistently yielded 104.3
over control, and above JB Diego, and offers
similar attributes to the popular variety
Revelation, with some significant advantages.
It’s earlier to mature than Revelation and
market stalwart, JB Diego, an important
attribute of consideration for growers of winter
wheat in the northern regions of the UK,” says
Mr Daubney.
He adds that LG Motown has good
resistance to the rusts, Septoria and eyespot as
well as offering OWBM resistance.
LG Sundance has an excellent disease
resistance profile, with a very good ‘7’ rating for
the yield robbing disease Septoria tritici; an
attribute considered of great importance in
many regions of the UK.
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