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Variety Overview

End-use group: Six-row feed, Hybrid

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 and North

Sowing rate: Approx 200 seeds/m2 in good conditions 

Key features: Newly recommended for 2023, SY NEPHIN is a high performance hybrid barley variety combining high yield, excellent specific weight and outstanding disease resistance. SY NEPHIN has the highest score for Rhynchosporium on the current RL and this compliments its high untreated yield. High untreated yield is indicative of a variety with excellent disease resistance and with weather patterns increasingly extreme and unpredictable, flexibility when it comes to spray timings and disease management are a significant benefit on farm. 

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Key Performance Statistics

We've compared SY NEPHIN and KWS Orwell on the AHDB Recommended List 2023/24 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 NEPHIN

90

105

106

[103]

[105]

KWS Orwell

82

100

100

101

98

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 NEPHIN

71.4

3.1

10.9

KWS Orwell

69.3

1.8

5.5

Disease profile

 

Mildew 

(1-9)

Brown rust

(1-9)

Rhynchosporium 

(1-9)

Net blotch

(1-9)

BaYMV

SY NEPHIN

6

-

8

[5]

R

KWS Orwell

3

7

6

5

R

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 NEPHIN 

6

[110]

102

0

KWS Orwell

8

94

86

0
 
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Breeding Insight

 

SY NEPHIN reflects Syngenta's hybrid breeding expertise with high and stable yields, grass weed suppression which is unique to hybrid barley and numerous other hybrid benefits. Growers who are looking to try a new hybrid barley variety can choose SY NEPHIN with confidence. 

Ben Urquhart - Seeds Technical Expert