Choosing best cereal variety for wholecrop

摘要

Paying more attention to variety choice could boost wholecrop yields and even save money on input costs, according to NIAB forage specialists. Angela Rhodes finds out more about NIAB's new Descriptive Lists for wholecrop cereals. Cereal variety choicefor whole crop has more often than not been dictated by price and availability as there has been an assumption that one feed wheat or barley variety is pretty much like any other. But according to NIAB, which has published wholecrop variety DescriptiveLists for the first time this year, there are significant differences in both dry matter yield and energy yield between varieties.