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Some shy away from the spotlight, and others embrace it. When it comes to the latest wheat from Limagrain – LG Spotlight – it stands tall in the latter category. CPM tells all. It ticks a lot of boxes in terms of grain quality, straw and as a whole crop option. By Melanie Jenkins Continuing from the success it saw with LG Skyscraper, Limagrain’s next highest yielding soft Group 4 feed wheat, LG Spotlight, could be set to provide farmers with a clean sweep of appealing characteristics. Newly instated on the AHDB Recommended List, LG Spotlight sits just behind its stable mate in terms of yield, but it might just have the upper hand when looking at the overall package. A product of Scribe x Horatio, LG Spotlight has good grain characteristics in its parentage, according to Phillip Tailby of Limagrain. “One of the older varieties now, Horatio was a soft wheat that had very good grain characteristics, which is one of the standout features of LG Spotlight with a specific weight of 78.3kg/hl. It’s the second highest of any feed and is up there with the Group 1 quality wheats.” LG Spotlight performs best as a…
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