SY Insitor wheat?

Farmer Fin

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Arable Farmer
Location
Aberdeenshire
Anyone grown any this year? Been growing Barrell for several years but I’m getting concerned it will get expensive to keep clean with the loss of CTL in a bad year. Looking at trying some Insitor. What are people’s thoughts?
 

DanniAgro

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Innovate UK
Insitor seems to flown in under the radar as far as I'm concerned. What features interested you enough to consider growing it?
 

Farmer Fin

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Arable Farmer
Location
Aberdeenshire
Looks good on yield in the north and good septoria score. Was thinking it would yield similar to Barrell which has done well for us but a cheaper chem spend. So some at trials this year and it looked well. A lot of skyscraper is grown around but it’s not great for septoria either.
 

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