Westminster spring barley is a high yielding variety with long, stiff straw

Technical & Marketing Guide

WESTMINSTER is a high yielding spring feed variety with long, stiff straw. It has excellent all-round disease resistance combined with a very high specific weight providing significant benefits for the feed barley grower.

 

STATUS: HGCA Recommended List (UK), SAC Recommended List and DARD Recommended List.

PEDIGREE: NSL 97-5547 x Barke

 

VERY HIGH YIELDING (% Treated Controls)

 

WESTMINSTER

Waggon

 Treated

99

104

Untreated

90

92

REGIONAL TREATED YIELDS (% Treated Controls)

 

WESTMINSTER

Waggon

North East

99

106

North West

101

105

East

99

102

West

98

104

Westminster has produced high yields in all HGCA regions of the UK.

EXCELLENT STRAW CHARACTERS
  WESTMINSTER Waggon
Resistance to Lodging 6 8
Straw Height(cm) 82 73
Resistance to Brackling 7 8
Maturity (days +/- Optic) +2 -1

(+ = later)

Westminster has long straw (taller than Waggon) combined with good lodging and brackling resistance.

 
EXCELLENT GRAIN QUALITY
  WESTMINSTER Waggon
Specific Weight (kg/hl)  70.0 67.4

Westminster produces a bold sample of grain with a high specific weight and a low level of screenings.

GOOD ALL-ROUND DISEASE RESISTANCE

 

WESTMINSTER

Waggon

Mildew

 9

  9

Yellow Rust

 7

 6

Brown Rust

 6

 6

Rhynchosporium

 8

 3

Westminster's excellent resistance to mildew and Rhynchosporium offers growers real opportunities to reduce fungicide input and to grow the variety in areas of the country where these diseases predominate. In Scottish trials Westminster has shown a high level of resistance to abiotic leaf spotting and moderately good resistance to Ramularia.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Data from the HGCA Recommended Lists database, full data at www.hgca.com

On the 1-9 scales, high figures indicate that the variety shows the character to a high degree.

Bred by Nickerson.

Limagrain UK Ltd, Rothwell, Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, LN7 6DT    Tel: 01472 371471