Winter Wheat
We have a strong, high yielding winter wheat portfolio with lots to offer to growers. Ranging from the tried and trusted varieties, such as Gallant, to the newly AHDB Recommended varieties, such as Shabras and Savello. If that wasn't enough we also have two promising Candidate varieties in trials this year. Click on the links below to find out more information on each of the varieties.
Meet the breeders
We have been breeding your varieties for over 35 years, bringing better wheat varieties to growers faster, with double haploid breeding.
Hybrid wheats - David Feuerhelm
“I have worked for Syngenta for just over 10 years and enjoy spending time in the field in the breeding material trying to find the plant that will eventually become a variety of the future. Putting everything that the farmer needs in a single wheat variety is still the biggest challenge for a wheat breeder: yield, grain quality and agronomic characteristics are all a key focus for assessing lines."
Conventional wheats - Duncan Warner
“I have worked with Syngenta for 10 years and I’m focused on breeding the next generation of winter wheat. Challenges of wheat breeding include keeping up with nature, environments and the ever-changing disease landscape but that’s what makes every day different!”
Get the most from your winter wheats
Our Root Matters initiative is working with a core group of growers to unearth and explore the implications of agronomy decisions on root mass and plant stress management, and the interaction of this with variety choice. We want to equip growers with a better knowledge and understanding of crop rooting systems, and work together to develop practical solutions to help farmers get more from their wheat crops.
