Westminster Spring Barley

WESTMINSTER is a very high yielding spring malting
barley with long, stiff straw. It has excellent all round disease resistance combined with very high specific weight and the highest hot water extract available. Westminster has all of the necessary qualities for brewing and export markets plus significant benefits for the feed barley grower making it a true multi-purpose variety.


STATUS: UK HGCA Recommended List 2007 and provisional IDB approval for brewing


PEDIGREE: NSL 97-5547 x Barke


YIELD
WESTMINSTER Optic Cocktail
Fungicide treated 102 96 103
Untreated 96 79 91


STRAW CHARACTERS
WESTMINSTER Optic Cocktail
Resistance to lodging 8 8 9
Straw length (cms) 80 72 67
Resistance to brackling 6 5 9
Maturity (days +/- Optic) 0 0 -1
GRAIN QUALITY
WESTMINSTER Optic Coctail
Hot water extract 317.7 313.1 313.8
Nitrogen content (%) 1.54 1.55 1.49
Specific weight (kg/hl) 70.6 70.4 70.2
Sieving % <2.5mm 6.9 10.3 11.3
Sieving % <2.25mm 2.3 3.0 3.4


DISEASE RESISTANCE
WESTMINSTER Optic Cocktail
Mildew 9 5 7
Yellow rust 5 9 4
Brown rust 5 5 6
Rhynchosporium 8 4 5
BYDV (8) (7) -

Source: All data is a partial extraction from the HGCA Recommended List 2007. The full dataset can be seen at www.hgca.com

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