Both winter wheat and spring barley yields are more than 1t/ha above the five-year mean in AHDB trial plots.

Wheat trials at 17 sites have now been harvested from Kent to the Scottish borders and the controls are averaging 11.34t/ha.

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Based on the average of the control varieties, the top winter wheat yield of 14.54t/ha was achieved on the Leicestershire site (drilled 1 October 2014), says AHDB.

This was closely followed by the Teesside site with a yield of 14.26t/ha (drilled 25 September 2014). 

For spring barley, seven sites have been harvested with a control average of 8.65t/ha, 1.19t/ha above the five-year average.

Control varieties at the site in Lincolnshire achieved an impressive yield of 10.13t/ha, while a site in Norfolk yielded 7.17t/ha.

Varieties

When selecting varieties, the five-year average values give a better representation of performance in different seasons.

At this stage, three Group 4 hard feed varieties are performing well – with Reflection, Evolution and Santiago all at 105%.

Find out which wheat and spring barley varieties performed in your nearest Recommended List trials site by visiting our interactive maps for winter wheat, winter barley, spring barley and oilseed rape.