A 2-row winter barley taking yields to new levels

Giving yields comparable to conventional 6-row winter barley varieties, Saffron brings new standards to winter barley 2 row performance. Offering growers a superb agronomic package, Saffron is easy to grow with excellent disease and straw characters. Grain is bold and bright with good specific weight and low screenings.

Source: HGCA CEL Recommended List Data

Moderately short straw is very stiff without PGR, giving security in the field, requiring only a simple PGR programme in lodging risk situations.

A free tillering variety, Saffron produces abundant good ears which all produce good grain. This tillering character additionally gives the ability to recover from thin or gappy stands, later drilling or poor establishment.

Source: HGCA CEL Recommended List Data

Saffron performs well on all soil types with sowing from mid September onward, with winter hardiness considered to be good. Saffron has medium maturity similar to Pearl.

Saffron gives the best available combination of net blotch and brown rust resistance plus good Rhynchosporium and moderate mildew resistance. Like all feed barley varieties, to exploit the highest yield potential a reasonably robust fungicide input is recommended.

Source: HGCA CEL Recommended List Data

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