Current: Variety Trials Programme
Timescale:
Annual programme
Project Sponsor:
BSPB
Project Summary
The Recommended List Trials Programme involves approx.17 sites, of which up to 13 are taken for yield assessments. The programme includes trials for disease assessment and early sown bolting. The yield assessment sites involve 120 varieties, with four replications of each. In the region of 3,840 plots are taken from seed to harvest and ultimately processing through the BBRO plot trial unit with the sugar analysis being done in the commercial tare house at Wissington.
See Recommended List
This project combines multiple sites managed by BBRO and NIAB on behalf of the sugar beet industry.
The data collected in this trial is translated into the Sugar Beet Recommended List
Latest report
Outcomes / Key Message For Growers And Industry
The outcome of which is the annual Recommended List.
BBRO is a not for profit company
We are set up jointly by British Sugar plc and NFU Sugar
