A rise of 22 per cent in this year’s GB wheat plantings is forecast in the annual AHDB/HGCA Planting and Variety Survey.
The total estimated GB planted area of cereals and oilseed rape for harvest this year is put at 3.91m hectares, up six per cent on last year.
It includes a total wheat area of 1.96m hectares. Barley and oat areas are down on 2013, while the oilseed rape area for harvest 2014 remains at levels similar to 2013.
Helen Plant, senior analyst, said favourable conditions in the autumn of 2013 supported a return to more typical levels of winter crop plantings, after the extremely challenging conditions a year earlier.
For wheat varieties, the proportion of nabim group four varieties accounts for an estimated 58 per cent of the total GB area.
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