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Download PDF A new variety selection tool has just been released by AHDB and provides a dynamic way of looking at the Recommended List. CPM finds out how it can rapidly sift through the varieties on offer to help pinpoint the ones most suitable for the farm. Using agronomic merit as the basis for the digital tool gives a very different view of the RL. By Lucy de la Pasture When it comes to variety choice and management the AHDB Recommended List (RL) is the go-to source of information. Even though the RL already contains a huge amount of data, some of it can prove difficult to extract and even more complicated to analyse, according to the results of AHDB’s Look Ahead activity which is designed to make sure the RL is fit for purpose. As part of the project, a comprehensive survey found that the way people were using the RL was changing, explains AHDB’s Dr Paul Gosling, who manages the RL programme. “There was a definite shift in attitude from when the survey was last conducted, five years ago. Growers and agronomists are now attaching more importance to disease resistance ratings than they are to…
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