Catherine Impresses on Farm
Guy Slater was so impressed with how the milling wheat Catherine performed for them this season he is establishing 60ha of the variety this year.
This is a real show of confidence in the recently released wheat, but the South Canterbury farmer says Catherine ticked all the boxes for them from establishment through to milling.
“It was an amazing crop; I haven’t got the exact numbers...
Catherine shines in performance trials
Our new premium two milling wheat, “Catherine”, was the stand-out performer in the Foundation for Arable Research’s (FAR) May-sown milling wheat Cultivar Performance Trials (CPT).
The annual FAR CPT trials are a truly independent test of cereal cultivars. Grown under commercial conditions at different sites across Canterbury, the cereals are therefore tested in a range of climates and soil...