A Spinnaker seed crop in Northern NSW, 2024.
A NEW malt potential barley selection is being launched this spring, with seed crops at the moment being grown with Seednet Companions in Northern NSW, Central NSW, Southern NSW, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia.
Spinnaker is a standard spring kind barley. It’s maritime themed identify is vital to notice as a result of Spinnaker barley isn’t an Imi-tolerant selection, and its identify isn’t related to the crop chemical Spinnaker.
Being a standard barley selection is a constructive characteristic for Spinnaker as a result of chemical residues are turn out to be an growing subject for finish customers and there’s much less and fewer typical barley being produced in Australia.
One other finish person profit with Spinnaker barley is its low requirement for the plant hormone Gibberellic Acid (GA) for malting. GA is usually used to help germination within the malting course of and though it’s completely secure for human consumption, some brewers choose much less inputs for use within the manufacturing of their beer.
Within the paddock, Spinnaker is a fast maturing, excessive yielding barley selection broadly tailored to medium and low rainfall barley rising areas. It has wonderful bodily grain high quality with excessive retention, excessive take a look at weight and low screenings. And when it comes to plant kind, Spinnaker has the identical good vigour and aggressive nature as RGT Planet, however Spinnaker is earlier to heading and shorter at maturity.
Its illness resistance profile is similar to RGT Planet with Resistance to Powdery mildew and Average Resistance/Average Susceptibility to Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus and Black level, however it’s rated Reasonably Inclined to Inclined for Leaf rust and Reasonably Inclined to Inclined/Very Inclined for Internet blotches.
Amanda Field and Dominique Vequaud in Spinnaker plot
Spinnaker was bred by Amanda Field who was beforehand a barley breeder on the College of Adelaide and is now breeder and supervisor of SECOBRA Analysis in Australia. SECOBRA is a specialist barley breeding organisation primarily based in France with over 120 years of expertise breeding and commercialising barley varieties for its world malting and brewing shareholders. SECOBRA started breeding operations in Australia in 2017 with the purpose to supply Australian growers with prime quality malt barley varieties to provide our home and export clients.
The breeding course of for Spinnaker concerned a fancy three-way cross combining hardy Australian adaptation and bodily grain dimension with European malt high quality. Its pedigree contains the industrial varieties Fathom and RGT Planet, plus a excessive malt high quality SECOBRA breeding line.
As its pedigree suggests, Spinnaker has been bred for malting and brewing and is at the moment in Stage 1 of analysis. There are three malting and brewing analysis crops in manufacturing throughout South East Australia this yr which are deliberate to be malted by Malteurop in Victoria and Coopers in South Australia subsequent yr. Breeder evaluation up to now has discovered that Spinnaker has excellent malt attributes and a excessive likelihood of attaining malt high quality when it turns into accredited.
Spinnaker malt crop SW VIC 2024
Spinnaker has been included in Nationwide Selection Trial testing since 2021, so growers and agronomists are inspired to test their native web site outcomes for previous efficiency of the variability.
Technical info for Spinnaker together with Trial Yield information, Illness Resistance rankings and Grain High quality information is obtainable on the web site of business companion Seednet.
Supply: Seednet. Spinnaker barley seed might be extensively out there for growers in 2025 – from Seednet Companions throughout Australia.
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