KWS ORWELL
The UK's most popular winter barley
- Highly consistent across regions
- Stiffest 2-row variety
- Good combination of wet weather disease resistance
Characteristics
About
KWS Orwell delivers a step up in straw strength and yield over existing 2-row feed varieties.
KWS Orwell currently yields 5% higher than KWS Cassia and is the leading 2-row feed variety. It performs consistently across all regions of the UK.
It is short and stiff, with good all-round wet weather disease resistance scores, other than for mildew which needs watching.
Good physical grain quality and low screenings are two other key characteristics of KWS Orwell.
Characteristics in numbers
| UK | 102 |
| East | 102 |
| West | 102 |
| North | 101 |
| Mildew | 3 |
| Yellow rust | [7] |
| Brown rust | 7 |
| Rhynchosporium | 6 |
| Net blotch | 5 |
| BaYMV | R |
| Screenings <2.25mm | 2.0 |
| Screenings <2.5mm | 6.3 |
| Lodging | 8 |
| Maturity | 0 |
| Height (cm) with PGR | 84 |
| SP.Wt (kg/hl) | 67.9 |
