GROWERS have been invited to see a 2.5 acre site of trial plots on the Yorkshire Wolds.
The trials at Ardenfleets Farm, which is part of the Warter Priory Estate, are now in their fourth year and are being conducted by Yorkshire Arable Marketing -- the estate's agronomists, and plant breeders Nickerson.
Chris Rigley, of Yorkshire Arable Marketing, said: "The trials include 40 different varieties on both treated and untreated plots.
"The object is to establish each variety's ability to compete against disease independently."
Bill Angus, Nickerson's senior wheat breeder, was also on hand during the visit earlier this month to show growers around the plots, and to introduce them to one of the first commercial crops of the company's new winter wheat Alchemy.
Ardenfleets Farm is one of only four farms in the UK to be growing a crop of Alchemy this year.
"The trials at Warter are all about establishing the best growing regime for the farmer in terms of optimising inputs, but they're also about looking at supplying what local end-users want to buy," said Mr Angus.
Updated: 10:25 Wednesday, July 27, 2005
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