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High Performance Wheat Shows Its Class
18th March 2006
The high performance feed wheat introduced last season by the Prism group of independent seed merchants is proving its worth in both trials and commercial practice.
Results from official 2005 HGCA Recommended List trials show Ambrosia standing well within the five highest yielding varieties in the country, averaging 10.50t/ha. It has topped the fungicide-treated yield ratings at no less than six of the sites. What is more, producing 13.83 t/ha as a second wheat in Barnston, Essex it has recorded the highest yield of any variety in any of the national trials to date.
“The variety is also showing its class as one of the top three yielders in The Arable Group’s national variety performance trials,” points out Prism Group chairman, Geoff Williams. “And seed growers across the country are reporting very good yields combined with big, bold grain samples in a crop that has proved both easy and clean to grow.”
“One of the three highest yielding varieties on the Recommended List, Ambrosia is unique amongst the latest generation of very high-output wheats for its outstanding resistance to lodging with or without growth regulators,” he adds.
“The performance we are seeing this season certainly underlines the variety’s ability to produce the goods for growers across the country keen to harvest the highest possible yields of wheat with the least hassle and risk at the least possible cost.
Backed by the long-standing PBIC reputation for breeding top quality, easy-to-grow wheats, the results leave us more confident than ever of the new variety’s value in almost any rotation.”
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