• The highest yielding alternative wheat:- late autumn and spring sown
  
• Stiff strawed
  
• Good disease resistance
  
• Very wide sowing window

  Belvoir is the highest yielding autumn and spring sown alternative wheat, offering growers the best yield potential across a wide range of late season sowing dates. Belvoir can be sown from November right through to mid-April.
  Sown in the late autumn, an alternative wheat will invariably give higher yields than a true winter wheat sown at the same time. Belvoir is no exception and extends the yield advantage even further. Additionally there is a further benefit with the more robust establishment and vigour of alternative wheat compared to true winter varieties, particularly in the less than ideal seedbeds associated with late drilling.

Data Source: HGCA Recommended List late autumn sown wheat 2006/7

Agronomy

Agronomically, Belvoir is a very stiff variety with good mildew resistance and exceptional resistance to both yellow and brown rust.

Data source: HGCA
Recommended List data on late autumn sown
wheat trials 2006/07

Spring wheat yields

Data Source: HGCA Recommended List spring wheat 2006/7

Spring drilled, the yield advantage of Belvoir provides excellent gross margin potential. With grain prices and quality premiums currently available, Belvoir's barn filling potential from spring sowing gives low risk gross margin potential.

All information is a partial extraction from the Cpb-Twyford's website and also the HGCA Recommended List 2007/8. See www.cpb-twyford.co.uk and also www.hgca.com for the full dataset.