Benefits of mixing wheat varieties
This project is a Rothamsted funded project under the FarmInn initative, that considered the question: What impact does blending wheat varieties have on yield, disease resistance, GAI and competitiveness against weeds?
The trial showed benefits in terms of:
- yield
- septoria resistance
-GAI
What was interesting was that the benefits seen in the field were greater than that which were predicted in theory. Mixing varities is a complex area in terms of which varietial triats to mix but this was a promising finding.
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