Northern wheat growers come out top in cereal yield competition
Wheat growers from northern England, Scotland and Denmark scooped the top awards in an Adas yield competition due to better June sunshine levels than further south.
Northumberland grower Shaun Watson saw the highest yield with a wheat crop of 12.8t/ha in Adas’s Yield Enhancement Network (YEN) in a generally disappointing year for yields due to the lack of summer sun.
Farming near East Holywell on the north-eastern edge of Newcastle upon Tyne, he won the gold award for top yield and also picked up the best potential yield award with 64% of his theoretic maximum.
Growers from Scotland also did well on their potential yields while Danish growers along with advisers Seges dominated the trials section with plot yields which reached as high as 13t/ha in the Yen awards meeting on 24 November.
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Wheat growers from northern England, Scotland and Denmark scooped the top awards in an Adas yield competition due to better June sunshine levels than further south.
Northumberland grower Shaun Watson saw the highest yield with a wheat crop of 12.8t/ha in Adas’s Yield Enhancement Network (YEN) in a generally disappointing year for yields due to the lack of summer sun.
Farming near East Holywell on the north-eastern edge of Newcastle upon Tyne, he won the gold award for top yield and also picked up the best potential yield award with 64% of his theoretic maximum.
Growers from Scotland also did well on their potential yields while Danish growers along with advisers Seges dominated the trials section with plot yields which reached as high as 13t/ha in the Yen awards meeting on 24 November.
Read more here