Throughout the harvest season, we are updating our handy map with the latest data from 2021’s AHDB wheat Recommended List harvest results.

Use the map below to find the five highest-yielding wheat varieties at your nearest trials site.

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Wheat summary

Results are in from 28 of the 35 Recommended List trial sites and of the remaining seven, three were abandoned during the year, one will not be used due to severe lemon blossom midge damage and the other three remain under review due to problems with the trials.

The average yield stands at 11.27 t/ha, comfortably ahead of the five-year average of 10.89 t/ha.This is good given the heat and lack of rain many trials experienced.

Results are also now available for all the fungicide untreated trials. In these trials, the average yield of control varieties is 9.67 t/ha, 0.91 t/ha ahead of the five-year average (8.76 t/ha), reflecting the good growing conditions and relatively low-disease-pressure year.

Wheat variety selection

In the treated trials, Group 4 (hard) varieties lead on yield. Newly recommended Champion is on 106%, having done particularly well in the West trials. Insitor is just behind on 105%, with a strong performance in the North trials.  

Newly recommended Dawsum is on 104% and Graham, Gleam and Cranium are on 103%. The other newly recommended hard Group 4 feed variety Typhoon has not performed well in 2022 and remains on 98% of controls.

Skyscraper (103%) is highest yielding of the soft Group 4s in 2022, alongside newly recommended Bairstow (103%). Newly recommended Stokes is on 102%.

In the quality bread wheats, the top-yielding Group 1 variety is Zyatt (101%), well ahead of Skyfall (97%), Illustrious (96%), and Crusoe (94%).

In the Group 2 bread wheats, Extase is highest yielding (103%), just ahead of newly recommended variety Palladium on 101%. Newly recommended Mayflower is on 97%.

In the soft Group 3 biscuit wheats, Merit (East region) has performed exceptionally well in 2022 (103%). Behind Merit, newly recommended Guium (101%) is just ahead of newly recommended Brium (100%).

The rest of the Group 3 varieties have generally underperformed in 2022, including newly recommended Rashid (99%).