Written by Charlotte Cunningham
The Processors and Growers Research Organisation (PGRO) has launched its 2021 Descriptive Lists for combining peas, winter and spring beans. Charlotte Cunningham reports. Challenging weather was a theme across all crops during the 2020 trials but several new varieties have delivered encouraging results and the conditions provided a greater level of disease information for pulse growers. The PGRO has modernised the way it presents its findings by adopting a Descriptive List format over the longstanding Recommended List. This means the information presented is more in line with modern grower requirements and will showcase the range options to suit different systems. “A definition of extreme is ‘beyond what might be expected’ and that would be a fair summary of the weather in 2020,” said Stephen Belcher, PGRO principal technical officer. “Lack of rainfall post drilling in the spring gave rise to patchy and uneven emergence for many trials and crops with double emergence were a common occurrence. “The result was that 2020 yields are well down on 2019, with winter beans suffering the worst. The control yields for 2020 were 2.72 t/ha for peas, 3.68 t/ha for spring beans and 2.67 t/ha for winter beans. “Powdery mildew in peas became a…
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