NEWTON BARLEY

Dual purpose variety with slow early development enabling early sowing for grazing, a long growing season, then harvest maturity equivalent to other long season cereals

Highly competitive plant type with high total biomass production and high grain yield potential (2-row feed quality)

Very high tillering ability with particularly prostrate early growth

Winter habit that requires cold period to initiate head development

Maturity equivalent to medium developing winter wheat (in between EGA Wedgetail and DS Bennett)

Tall plant type at maturity

NVT disease resistance ratings to be confirmed from 2023 trials