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Variety Overview

End-use group: Hybrid barley, now with BYDV tolerance

Market options: Livestock Feed

Soil preference: Suitable for all soil types and performs well even on marginal land

Regional positioning: Excellent performance in the East & North

Sowing rate: Approx 200 seeds/m2 in good conditions. Up to 250 seeds/m2 in grass weed situations

Key features: Newly recommended for 2023, SY BUZZARD brings BYDV tolerant genetics in a hybrid background for the first time.  SY BUZZARD brings high yield, excellent performance in the EAST and good all round disease resistance in combination with BYDV tolerance, a significant benefit on farm. 

Key Performance Statistics

We've compared SY BUZZARD and KWS Feeris on the AHDB Recommended List 2024/25 and shared some key statistics we think you'll be interested in. 

Yield

 

Untreated Yield

Fungicide Treated Yield

Eastern Yield

Western Yield

Northern Yield

SY BUZZARD

82

102.7

104

101

102

KWS Feeris

84

101.7

102

102

100

Yields shown are expressed as a percentage of control means

Grain quality

 

Specific Weight

(kg/hl)

Screenings

(% through 2.25mm)

Screenings

(% through 2.5mm) 

SY BUZZARD

69.0

3.2

13.1

KWS Feeris

69.2

1.4

5.6

Disease profile

 

Mildew 

(1-9)

Brown rust

(1-9)

Rhynchosporium 

(1-9)

Net blotch

(1-9)

BaYMV

BYDV

SY BUZZARD

6

6

6

7

R

Tolerant

KWS Feeris

5

6

6

6

R

Tolerant

Agronomic features

 

Resistance to lodging with PGR

(1-9)

Straw height without PGR

(cm)

Straw height with PGR

(cm)

Ripening

(days +/- Orwell, -ve = earlier)

SY BUZZARD 

7

115

107

-1

KWS Feeris

7

102

97

0
 

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Breeding Insight

SY BUZZARD is an exciting step in hybrid barley breeding.  Putting BYDV tolerance in a hybrid background for the first time means we can offer growers all of the benefits they have come to expect from hybrid barley as well as a variety that will mitigate the impact of BYDV. 

Ben Urquhart - Seeds Technical Expert