HONEY
Early Maturing, Short Variety
Honey is an early maturing, shorter, very stiff-strawed variety with a more compact habit than Wizard. The combination of excellent standing ability and early maturity makes Honey ideally suited to higher fertility and moisture production areas and also the North and West of the UK.
Honey produces large, attractive seed suitable for the export market.
| UK Yield (mean C 4.40t/ha) | |
|---|---|
| Honey | 94 |
| Tundra | 93 |
| Annual Yields | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 (5.55 t/ha) | 89 | |||
| 2020 (2.82 t/ha) | 93 | |||
| 2021 (5.29 t/ha) | 99 | |||
| 2022 (4.58 t/ha) | 89 | |||
| 2023 (3.69 t/ha) | 102 |
| Agronomics | |
|---|---|
| Flower colour | C |
| Earliness of maturity | 7 |
| Straw length (cm) | 111 |
| Standing ability at harvest | 8 |
| Seed Characters | |
|---|---|
| Thousand seed weight (g) | 674 |
| Protein content (%) | 25.8 |
Source: PGRO DL 2024
1-9 scores, 9 is high
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