Bamford

✚ A new soft wheat with wide marketing opportunities

✚ Excellent agronomic profile

Variety Positioning

• A new addition to the UK Recommended List with high consistent yields over the past three years (106% treated, 92% untreated in Agrii trials) and good agronomic characteristics.

• Excellent physical grain quality (78.5kg/hl, AHDB) that suits the millers and exporters, and it under further test for the distilling market where shows high spirit yields. 

• Best drilled in the main drilling window and suitable for all regions except areas of high sterility risk until more information is available.

• Performs well across a range of soil types including lighter soils
  and more fertile sites. It has PCH1 eyespot resistance and performs well as a second wheat.

• Agrii trials suggest that straw strength is not as stiff as official ratings; (7) (5) untreated and (7.1) (6) treated. 

• A good package for disease with mildew (6), yellow rust (7.0) (7.2), brown rust (6.1) (6.0), Septoria tritici (6.7) (6.6) and moderately susceptible to fusarium ear blight (5.8).

• Resistant to Soil Borne Wheat Mosaic Virus but not resistant to orange wheat blossom midge.
  
  

NOTE:
Numbers in bold – Agrii Advisory List data.
Numbers in standard text – AHDB Recommended List