BELEPI Key Benefits to Wheat Growers

BELEPI (uniquely) is recognised as a spring wheat for the sole purpose of the three-crop rule in England & Wales

Extremely early to harvest

Very wide sowing window – October through to end of March

Very vigorous in spring – outcompeting blackgrass

Yield equivalent to leading Group 3 and 4 wheats

Orange Wheat Blossom Midge resistant

Good second wheat choice

Excellent early entry for Oilseed Rape

Ideal to follow potatoes, root crops, cover crops, vegetables and maize

BELEPI Yield competitive

BELEPI Grain QualityBELEPI produces a large ear of soft endosperm wheat suitable for the feed market. It has a good specific weight and high Hagberg Falling Number.

Sales Aid 2015 - 2016

Comprehensive field-scale yield results from 2014 and 2015 harvests based on both seed and commercial growers of BELEPI show that, in a range of growing conditions, yields have been competitive with other feed wheats on farm. Yields ranged from well over 11 t/ha for the best crops, to an average of over 9 t/ ha for all the tracked crops, with drilling dates ranging from early October to mid-March.

Area Previous Sowing Sowing Yield / Comments crop Rate kg/ha Date ha

Lincs Potatoes 150 27th Oct 14.8 No issues with disease at all

Wilts Wheat 230 30th Oct 11.88 Gallant drilled month seeds/m2 before Belepi, yet harvested day before

Oxon Maize 155 3rd wk Oct 10.0 “a fabulous variety, having proved itself at both ends of its drilling window”

Lincs Wheat 160 1st Nov 10.8 Heavy soil – black grass target

Lincs Veg 125 27th Nov 11.3 Seed Crop

Cambs S. Beet 146 13th Mar 9.98 Seed Crop

“… Overall I was happy with Belepi and cheap as chips to grow. Will be drilling some more this year as it also fits well

with the three-crop rule … “

“… Whether it’s autumn - or spring-drilled, it comes off early enough to provide plenty of time to get rape in the ground, and as a late autumn driller it’s far faster to mature

than our other wheat ….”

“… Drilled early November to manage bad blackgrass at 160kgs per ha after wheat. Heavy ground and

yielded 10.8t/ha ...”

BELEPI is UK bred by Blackman Agriculture Ltd (parentage

Robigus x Samoa). It is listed on the EU Common Catalogue,

but due to its wide sowing window, earliness to harvest

and spring growth stage development, Belepi does not

fit the trialling protocol of the AHDB Winter Wheat

Recommended List and has not therefore

been trialled through this system.

Belepi nevertheless sold over

4000t from harvest

2014.