Prestige Contracts fro English Barley Growers Centaur Grain is opening-up further value-added markets for English spring cereal growers this season with a new contract for the UK-bred euro barley, Prestige. New Malting Barley Recommendation The addition of the first cereal variety to carry a specific export recommendation to the 2003 HGCA Recommended List of spring barleys this week (December 5) has given a valuable boost to UK cereal marketing opportunities. While the export opportunities for Prestige grain are substantial and already well-developed, cereal marketing specialists stress that the variety offers equally good potential for domestic use. Spring Malting Barley Outshines A newly recommended specialist export spring barley comfortably outyielded leading winter malting standard, Pearl on a Suffolk farm in 2002, topping 3t/acre (7.4 t/ha). It earned a premium of £20/tonne over feed. And it was almost £30/ha cheaper to grow than the winter crop. Spring Barley Surprise With sugar beet and late-harvested Brussels sprouts in the rotation, Norfolk cereal grower Jeremy Hancock has to have some spring barley in his cropping line-up, accepting its lower yield potential out of necessity. But to his great surprise and delight last year's (2002) spring crop of newly recommended euro-malting barley, Prestige outyielded his winter barleys by a handsome margin. And this despite being grown on his poorest land. Bold Barley Decision Last spring David Brown and his son Iain took the bold decision to put two thirds of their 900 acres of spring barley at Burnside of Dipple into a new, relatively unknown variety. But its earliness, yield and marketability more than vindicated this decision. Barley Shows a Lot of Promise Prestige, a new spring malting barley bred by Monsanto, looks set to storm the Continent this year, says cereal product manager, Keith Day. Spring Malting Barley Outshines Winter Crop in Suffolk A newly recommended specialist export spring barley comfortably outyielded leading winter malting standard, Pearl on a Suffolk farm last year, topping 3t/acre (7.4 t/ha). It earned a premium of £20/tonne over feed. And it was almost £30/ha cheaper to grow than the winter crop. Spring Barley Surprise With sugar beet and late-harvested Brussels sprouts in the rotation, Norfolk cereal grower Jeremy Hancock has to have some spring barley in his cropping line-up, accepting its lower yield potential out of necessity. But to his great surprise and delight last year's spring crop of newly recommended euro-malting barley, Prestige outyielded his winter barleys by a handsome margin. And this despite being grown on his poorest land. New Malting Barley Recommendation opens wide marketing opportunities The addition of the first cereal variety to carry a specific export recommendation to the 2003 HGCA Recommended List of spring barleys this week (December 5) has given a valuable boost to UK cereal marketing opportunities. While the export opportunities for Prestige grain are substantial and already well-developed, cereal marketing specialists stress that the variety offers equally good potential for domestic use. Euro-Barley Boosts Late Beet Spring malting barley has given Chris and Ian Cockayne the rotational leeway to boost sugar beet yields reliably every season through 'just-in-time' harvesting on their family's Top Brackendale Farm, Cropwell Butler in Nottinghamshire. And with the new Euro-barley they are now growing they think they have the ideal solution to all-rounded added value Prestige Advert in Denmark Prestige Press Article in Denmark