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Barley
The barley breeding programs at Nordic Seed are designed to create new winter and spring barley varieties with superior yield, good agronomic traits, disease resistance and quality for malt or feed.
Another prerequisite is that our spring barley varieties are resistant to cereal cyst nematodes and have good nutrient use efficiency.
The breeding methods used are both traditional bulk/pedigree breeding and double haploid. Selection in early generations is performed at our station at Dyngby and in New Zealand. Yield performance is carried out at our three stations at Skive, Dyngby and Lolland
Spring barley
- The area sown with spring barley has varied in recent years due to crop requirements. The current area is approximately 500,000 ha.
- Nordic Seed breeds its own spring barley, primarily at our own breeding station in Dyngby.
- We use traditional breeding techniques and selection is performed according to Danish growing conditions.
- Spring barley breeding focuses highly on quality, with our primary objective being malting barley.
- In addition, we believe it is essential that the variety has high resistance to leaf diseases.
- High yields and crop safety are high priority.
Winter barley
- Thearea of winter barley sown has been consistent over the last three years at approximately 110,000 ha.
- Winter barley is suitable as a pre-crop in crop rotations with winter oil seed rape, which also increases the chances of establishing winter oil seed rape in time
- We represent all three types of winter barley, 2-row, 6-row and 6-row hybrids.
- We select varieties for high yield, good grain quality (high hectolitre weight) and low susceptibility to leaf diseases.