Four KWS UK Group 2’s Make RL Plantings

According to technical director, Chris Tapsell, no other company has more wheat varieties in the RL pipeline; all four are potential Group 2 milling wheats.

“This illustrates that our breeding programme has come of age,” he says. “It also justifies our change of emphasis two years ago of focusing on, and fast-tracking, potential milling varieties.”

The Thriplow-based breeder is already a market leader in the Group 3 sector with Viscount and Robigus. It also has two of the UK’s highest yielding feed wheats – Oakley and Humber - in its portfolio, with Grafton and Conqueror up for Recommendation this winter.

Now, it hopes that Cordiale, in the Group 2 sector will be joined by new varieties in the coming season. Of the four potential newcomers, CPBT W152 is leading the pack and under-going commercial evaluation.

Further back in the variety testing pipeline, KWS UK also has the highest yielding variety (CPBT W165) and biscuit potential wheat (W158) in NL1 trials.