Vespa Winter Bean

Highest Yielding Variety in the Market

Vespa is the joint highest yielding variety on the PGRO DL 2025. It is the market leader in the UK with a large share of the market.

 

Vespa has short straw with good standing ability and a large seed size.


With its large seed and pale hilum Vespa is well accepted for the export and feed markets and is proving exceptionally popular.

Annual Yields
2020 (2.82 t/ha) 113
2021 (5.27 t/ha) 114
2022 (4.62 t/ha) 109
2023 (3.18t/ha) 96
2023 (4.52 t/ha) 104
Agronomics
Flower colour C
Earliness of maturity (1-9) 5
Straw length (cm) 112
Standing ability at harvest (1-9) 8

Source: PGRO DL 2025

1-9   High figure indicates a variety shows the character to a high degree.

Disease Resistance
Downy Mildew (1-9) 5
Rust (1-9) 5
Chocolate spot (1-9) 7
Seed Characters
Thousand seed weight (g) 711
Protein content (%) 25.3

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Winter bean growers guide