Cereal Varieties

The vast majority of our seed is contract grown for Harlow Agricultural Merchants Ltd by a very professional group of dedicated seed growers and processed through modern, local seed plants. We see this as very much a partnership that is crucial to the success of our business and enables us to deliver a high quality product back to the farm. We aim to make available a full range of products; we try not to be led by the majority in the quest for sales volume. A brief summary of variety are listed below and further information is available through the download link.

Group 1

Bread Making and Milling Wheat Varieties

SY Cheer

NEW Group 1

Potential Breadmaking Variety

SY CHEER is a newly recommended Group 1 potential variety which looks set to be a game-changer for the UK milling market. It brings high and stable treated yield in combination with a step change in untreated yields. SY CHEER has excellent grain quality, in particular robust Hagberg Falling Number and high specific weight. Final UK FM Classification is expected in spring 2024.

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RGT Skyfall

Group 1

Skyfall remains one of the UK’s most widely grown varieties. Grown not just as atop class milling wheat, but for its other qualities, such as wide sowing window and ease of combining. Skyfall has the lowest vernalisation requirements of any recommended UK wheat. Making it suitable to drill into the beginning of March. Sown in early spring, Skyfall can often outperform true spring wheats.

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KWS Zyatt

Group 1

Combining the highest Group 1 yield with good protein levels and good agronomics, KWS Zyatt is a first-choice variety for the professional milling wheat grower. A consistent performer over sites and seasons, KWS Zyatt’s excellent physical grain package is supported by tried and tested performance in the bakery where it has been shown to deliver a wide range of top quality bread products.

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Crusoe

Group 1

The Benchmark Group 1 with the highest protein content available. Since its introduction in 2012, it is no surprise that Crusoe has become one of the miller’s first choice varieties.

This Group 1 variety offers growers an excellent level of security, combining good agronomics with good sprouting resistance.

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RGT Illustrious

Group 1

RGT Illustrious continues to deliver consistent yields of very high quality milling wheat since its commercial launch in 2016. It is a stiff-strawed variety with an excellent combined package of disease resistances which is borne out by its class leading untreated yield figures when compared to all other Group 1 varieties.

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Group 2 & 3

Group 2 Bread Making - Group 3 Soft Wheat For Biscuits and Export.

KWS Palladium

Group 2

WS Palladium is the new and exciting addition to the UK domestic bread markets. It is a super clean variety with one of the highest untreated yields on the market today, thanks to its scores for Septoria (7.3), mildew (8), yellow rust (9) and eyespot (6). Importantly, its Septoria resistance has a different genetic basis to that of other commercialised Group 2 varieties.

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KWS Extase

Group 2

KWS Extase is possibly the most exciting variety to be recommended in recent years. Its amazing combination of end-market potential, yield and disease resistance will make it a variety that every farmer will want to grow in 2024 and beyond.

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Mayflower

Group 2

Mayflower Group 2 milling wheat underlined its credentials as one of the top performing winter wheats following a string of positive post-harvest grower reports.

Excellent disease package with a Septoria score of 8.4, as well as Soil Wheat Mosaic Virus and PCHI to Eyespot.

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Bamford

Group 3

New Bamford is one of the most competitive
wheats coming to the market in 2023/24.
With the highest untreated yield of the 23/24
RL Candidates at 92%; Bamford consistently
delivers high yields across the UK year to
year, making it the benchmark in yield
resilience.

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Group 4

Hard Feed Wheat

LG Beowulf

Group 4 Hard

LG Beowulf is the highest yielding variety on the AHDB Recommended List 24/25 with an excellent agronomic package

LG Beowulf winter wheat offers consistent yield across regions, seasons and scenarios, along with very good disease resistance.

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Champion

Group 4 Hard

CHAMPION is the ultimate barn buster, previously topping the Candidate List in 2021/22 and topping the 2022/23 Recommended List with the highest yield available overall . On the 2024/25 Recommended List, CHAMPION is one of the highest yielding feed wheat (Group 4) (106%). It is also one of the highest yielding wheats on the list when grown as either first or second cereal.

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SY Insitor

Group 4 Hard

SY INSITOR is a very high yielding variety with excellent grain quality. This variety is proven to have a vigorous rooting system which sets the platform for high performance on light land, second wheat and late drilled scenarios.

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KWS Dawsum

Group 4 Hard

Awesome Dawsum - Still the highest on the 2024 AHDB List. The excellent barn-filling choice with outstanding grain quality including one of the highest specific weights on the market today. New in 2022 from KWS is a hard Group 4 wheat that offers growers the ultimate flexibility on-farm, delivering fantastic yields right across the rotation if you are drilling early (106%), mainstream (103%) or late sown slots (103%).

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Gleam

Group 4 Hard

GLEAM is a high-yielding, hard feed winter wheat variety that is adaptable. It performs in all rotational positions with a wide drilling window. GLEAM has a strong agronomic profile with stiff straw, good grain quality and orange wheat blossom midge resistance.

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LG Typhoon

Group 4 Hard

LG Typhoon winter wheat offers growers good agronomic profile for on farm security

This variety has a good straw strength and benefits from one of the highest Septoria resistance scores available, as proven by its high untreated yields.

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LG Redwald

Group 4 Soft

LG Redwald is the highest yielding soft feed wheat variety available on the Recommended List.

LG Redwald is very high yielding across all on-farm situations and has a good disease resistance profile, especially for Septoria tritici (LG Sundance resistance).

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LG Skyscraper

Group 4 Soft

LG Skyscraper is a consistently high yielding winter wheat with proven performance across seasons, rotational position and soil type

LG Skyscraper has a consistent high yield performance across all situations, including the second wheat situation. It also possesses good agronomics suited to a blackgrass situation.

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