Top-yielding new wheat variety proves a success

摘要

One new feed wheat variety heads the AHDB Recommended List for yield and has very good septoria resistance. David Jones reports.Henry Ruffle was so impressed with a seed crop of the high-yielding new winter wheat variety Champion that he will be drilling an increased area this month as a commercial crop on his Suffolk family farm.The feed wheat variety is the top yielder on the AHDB Recommended List and has headed official yield trials this summer with very good resistance to wheat's most damaging disease - septoria - so has generated good interest among wheat growers.